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Schabziger Cheese and Swiss Historical Village

Mom and I went to a town called New Glarus for my birthday and visited the Swiss Historical Village they have there. Then we ate Swiss food at the New Glarus Inn. New Glarus was settled by 108 people from Glarus canton in Switzerland and they've really preserved their heritage in their architecture and even their language. Schabziger is a type of cheese which is made only in Glarus, Switzerland, except that they make it here, too. The Swiss Historical Village was a real blast from the past. In the preserved one-room schoolhouse, they had a copy of the charter which managed all teachers. They could be dismissed back then for drinking liquor, getting married (the women) or for being shaved in a barber shop (uh, the men, we presume). When someone asked about the latter prohibition our guide explained that paying to have someone else do what you can do yourself was seen as setting a bad example for the children in infrugality. Over the door was a phrase in Latin and our guide asked if anyone knew what it meant. I translated it as "People make mistakes." It was actually "To err is human." Considering I didn't know where we were going with this, I don't think I did a bad job. :) Just to make it more tricky, it was written in Old Germanic script, where "ss" looks like "f." He asked what the language was and I said Latin. He said that usually his groups assume the language is German and he gets to correct them. Ha. He didn't know whom he was dealing with. I bought some of the Schabziger (Sap Sago) cheese and tried it in a spread. Wow! That was really good. It's not very expensive, and seems to be available on the internet. But when I run out, I'll go back to New Glarus. I'd love to see that Historical Village again, anyway.