If your checkbook and charge card balances are indicating that a trip abroad might not be in your best interest, get cultured right here at home. Colorful flowers bloom in window boxes.
Shutters frame each window on the wooden buildings.
A breeze sends canton shields and Swiss flags and banners flapping. Since Swiss settlers arrived here in 1845, a steady stream of Swiss immigrants have called this home. And they enjoy keeping the homeland's traditions alive. Just about any restaurant you enter will have cheese fondues on the lunch or dinner menus. Stop at the local bakery for some crusty white Swiss bread or bratzeli, traditional thin butter wafers.