Aerial view of the next Grand Slam tennis tournament

The big tennis tournament in France is held in the latter part of May into June. Bjorn Borg won the men's singles six times, Chris Evert won the women's singles seven times. By the magic of google, I have a bird's eye view of what the courts look like. There are three stadiums of sufficient size to hold a big tournament, and all the courts are composed of European red clay. It looks like a nice place to spend a couple of days in late spring.



The weather in St Paul is granting some preseason outdoor tennis play. Tomorrow. But today was a rest day and a chance to go to the History Center. There could be a reference book there ("The Alsace Emigration Book") that may be able to tell me the home town in the Alsace of one George Miller. He left France in 1828 at the age of five in the company of his dad, Jean Miller, and some other family members - three women and girls, Jacon and two Maries - to come to America. They arrived in New York on the good ship, Parachute, on May 14, 1828. He later took on the nickname Grossvater, married Harriet C. Bowen in Indiana, and became my great great grandfather - not necessarily in that order. The book I was looking for may be in the Minnesota History Center genealogy library, but unhappily, after a long walk to the building (to avoid paying outrageous parking fees) I discovered that the place is closed on Mondays. This search will be taken up another day.