Each year libraries across the United States celebrate National Library Week. National Library Week is sponsored by the American Library Association, which provides leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of ...

By Terry and Kim Kovel The Hundred Treasures theme was popular in Chinese art during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Many objects of daily life that impart symbolic meaning were incorporated into artwork. A single vase can be a symbol of female fertility, yet this red Chinese porcelain has ...

Spring has finally sprung! I am so happy the vernal equinox has finally occurred and it’s spring. I am looking for green grass, new buds on the trees, flowers pushing up from the soil, and new books to read while I wait out the next three or four weeks until spring really starts here in south ...

In 1966, Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne became known as the co-creating duo “Les Lalanne” (The Lalannes). The husband-and-wife team made surrealist dreamlike sculpture, bridging the real and the unreal to create unique hybrid sculpture. Francois-Xavier is best known as a creator of ...

With Daylight Savings Time upon us, you may be keenly feeling the loss of that hour from Saturday night. You wouldn’t be the first to feel it either. Human sleep schedules have been profoundly altered by the advent of electric lighting in the late nineteenth century. In contrast to today’s ...

Hub Club 40th anniversary Farm Show door prize winners announced The New Ulm Farm-City Hub Club was excited to be “back in the arena”—to be able to hold its annual farm show at the New Ulm Civic Center March 11-12. With this show being the 40th annual—or “ruby”—event, special ...