During the seventh-inning stretch at a Milwaukee Brewers’ baseball game, you won’t hear the traditional “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” fanfare, instead something nearer and dearer to fans can be heard ...

"It's time to roll out the barrel, because the gang's all here," says the "Beer Barrel Polka," written by Will Glahé. More than 100 North Iowa residents put on their St. Patrick's Day best and found ...

Left for dead as a child in a World War II missile attack in Germany, Helga Beckman survived to come to Texas and led a Fort Worth polka band that has kept children dancing and families happy for 45 ...

Germans insisted it was an old Bavarian drinking song. Americans and British thought it was one of their own. Anyhow, they all sang it. The Beer Barrel Polka became the Tipperary of World War II, ...

Since our third oldest child is getting married in a few weeks, people ask me, "How are the wedding plans going?" I'm not the one to ask. It's not that I'm disinterested in wedding plans; I am glad ...