Connie’s aunt said Christine and I were talking our own language. We were eight and nine and playing cards. When we spoke to each other, we were channeling our refined German genetics. Christine and I adored each other and were inseparable. We would take hikes all over the Oakland Hills. We spoke on the phone with Juanita Miller. As the ‘White Witch’, Juanita gave advice on the phone for the Love Lorn. We pretended to be married, on the verge of divorce. We disguised our voice so we would sound older.
Little did we know, we were a hundred years old. Our silent ancestors spoke to us in the background. They begged us not to forget them. Now, I alone exist. Christina has left me alone among the base savages, the uncultured incestuous greedy ones. The Haters of Beauty and Art have overrun our Museum. I have taken the place of the Blue Ghost that came to stand at the foot of my beloved sister’s bed when she was ten. I tend to them all. I am the Phantom Muse of the Art Opera.
They want us to be guilty of something so we will carry their conspiracy around our ankle like a ball and chain. They want money to pour from our wounds so they can feed their ugly vanity. They are obsessed with making their dumb friends, jealous, and having children out of wedlock. They constantly want to get their hair done, and their fingernails painted so they can do their dance of – Hating the Fathers!
What do we got to hide? We were German Radicals who left Germany before both world wars. We founded the Republican Abolitionist Party. We were Lincoln’s bodyguards. A hundred thousand of us fought against the Confederacy for the Emancipation of the Slaves – and we won! We are not The Losers! We were Evangelicals as well as Socialists and Freethinker. Take your guilt – and shove it!
On October 31, 2012, the California Department of Public Health mailed me a copy of my birth certificate. My mother and father were living on Berlin Way where William Stuttmesiter and his cousin, William Buyer built over forty new homes on this street, and on Maple Street just around the corner.
My father had a framed marriage certificate of Frederick William Stuttmeister to a women named Charlotte. Vicki Presco did not have this certificate as I hoped. Vic’s mother’s middle name was Charlotte. Some citation on the web have Charlottenburg as the meaning of the name Stuttmeister. No. 1 Berlin Way was the address on this certificate. This street was founded by a King of Prussia who was into the Arts, thus one finds several famous Art Colleges here.
Berlin Way appears to have been the Bohemian district. The theatre and early cinema was here, as was an amusement park named ‘Flora’. Consider Carl Janke’s theme park in Belmont. It appears my grandfathers were German Bohemians, perhaps related to the Prince of Orange and who was a Rosicrucians. Consider Falcon art college and Godschalk Rosemondt. The House of Orange married into the Kings of Prussia. Here is the unseen Enlightenment. Here is the core of British Royalty, even its creative branch.
There is a German club in the Oakland Hills that resembles Carl Janke’s German theme park in Belmont. I hear our music and the laughter of our people. We are alive!
Jon Presco
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7. AGNES EMMA HEDWIG STUTTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GE
Gender: Female Christening: 06 SEP 1856 Sankt Petri, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
8. ALBERTUS FRIEDERICH STUTTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GE
Gender: Male Christening: 11 JUL 1745 Jerusalem, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
9. DOROTHEA SOPHIA STUTTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GE
Gender: Female Christening: 03 AUG 1807 Jerusalem, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
10. EMILIE FRIEDRICKE STUDTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GE
Gender: Female Christening: 26 JAN 1806 Sankt Nikolai, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
11. AMALIE CHARLOTTE JOHANNE ELISABETH STUTTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GE
Gender: Female Christening: 06 MAR 1860 Sankt Petri, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
12. FRIEDRICH HEINRICH STUTTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GE
Gender: Male Christening: 30 JAN 1862 Sankt Elisabeth, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
13. JOH. CARL STUTTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GE
Gender: Male Christening: 20 AUG 1747 Jerusalem, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
14. JOHANNES HERMANN STUTTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GE
Gender: Male Christening: 04 MAY 1826 Friedrichswerder Berlin, Brandenburg, Preussen
15. CARL HEINRICH STUTTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GEDr.
Gender: Male Christening: 15 APR 1805 Sankt Nikolai, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
16. CATHARINA DOROTHEA STUTTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GE
Gender: Female Christening: 02 AUG 1743 Jerusalem, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
17. VICTOR EMANUEL FELIX STUTTMEISTER – International Genealogical Index / GE
Gender: Male Christening: 07 MAR 1861 Sankt Petri, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
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