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Antiques & Collecting

By Terry and Kim Kovel In design, the line between art and science isn’t always clearly drawn. This has been true for centuries. One of the most influential figures in the art nouveau movement of the late 19th to early 20th century was a scientist, not an artist. Beginning in 1889, ...

Off the Shelf

As a child, summer was always the season of travel. We’d pile into our white station wagon named Penguin with a car topper strapped in place and set off to family reunions, national parks, family friends in far flung places, and many other interesting sites that were fun to explore and ...

Historical Society explores cemetery

Ten youths under the supervision of the Brown County Historical Society Tuesday probed the cemetery at the Brown County pioneer settlement of Iberia as one of many steps in the restoration of the cemetery. With probing rods and shovels the youths sought to find tombstones or markers covered by ...

News of New Ulm from 100 years ago

50 AUTOS DRIVE TO SPRINGFIELD ———— New Ulm Sends Large Delegation to Farm Bureau Picnic in Spite of Steady Downpour ———— RAIN SPOILS PROGRAM MEET IN OPERA HOUSE ———— Orpheus Band of Springfield and Pioneer Band of New Uim Render Indoor ...

Specimen tables were popular European souvenir

Going on a vacation this summer? In the 18th and 19th centuries, wealthy American and European travelers made “Grand Tours” of continental Europe to view ancient ruins and collect souvenirs. The specimen table with a top made of fragments of different types of stone or wood, often arranged ...