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Butterflies often appear in decorative arts and jewelry

In North America, summer, especially late summer, is butterfly season. Multiple generations hatch as caterpillars grow, pupate and emerge to pollinate flowers and lay eggs of their own. If you would prefer a butterfly that lasts longer, they often appear in decorative arts and jewelry, like this pin or pendant that sold for $594 at New Orleans Auction Galleries. Real-life butterflies are admired for the striking colors and patterns of their wings, but this pin dazzles with gemstones. Its colors come from about 1.72 carats of sapphires. While the name of the stone is synonymous with a ...

Van Briggle pottery known for nature themes and glazes

Artus Van Briggle and his wife, Anne, were decorators at the Rookwood Pottery in Ohio. They moved to Colorado after Artus was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and he opened his own pottery there, the Van Briggle Pottery, in 1901. After Artus died in 1904, Anne took over the pottery. Van Briggle Pottery is known for its art nouveau vases with abstract flower shapes or graceful human figures in a single rich color, subtly varied shades or tonal gradients of matte glazes. The glazes were Artus’ passion, inspired by centuries-old Chinese pottery. This tile, which sold for $2,125 at a Rago ...

Off the Shelf

I was experiencing a bit of a reading slump, during which I was picking up my phone more often than a book. Luckily, these books helped me out of my slump. I hope that one or more of them might appeal to you. Wealthy Manhattanites flock to their beach homes on Fire Island each summer, spending their days sunbathing, drinking, and gossiping about their summer neighbors. This summer there is more to gossip about than ever: affairs between married friends, a handsome new tennis instructor, a #MeToo scandal, and maybe even murder. In “Bad Summer People,” Emma Rosenblum uses multiple ...

DNR headquarters located in Brown County

ST. PAUL — New Ulm has been selected as the site for the southwest regional headquarters of the Department of Natural Resources, DNR Commissioner Robert Herbst announced today. The department will construct an office building on a 117-acre site donated by the city and county along Highway ...

Ed Ozias leaves almost million dollars to many charities

Edward Ozias, last direct descendant of the Stork Brothers produce family, left $929,000 to 19 charities through a trust arrangement, insurance policies and annuities, according to probate papers filed Thursday in Brown County Court. Ozias died March 19 at his home at the age of 61. He had worked as a bookkeeper for his mother and his uncles, August and Albrecht Stork, at Stork Brothers, Minnesota’s oldest produce business, long a landmark on S. German. Born in Tyler to Ida Stork Ozias and Edward Hudson Ozias, the young Ozias came to New Ulm in 1916 and always lived at his ...

St. Paul’s okays clinic land sale

At the July quarterly meeting Sunday night, the voters of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in New Ulm approved by a two-thirds majority the sale of one acre of land to an association of New Ulm medical doctors and also okayed the purchase of nearly one acre of land from School District 88 of New Ulm. This approval means the merger of nine local doctors into one medical clinic will become a reality. The doctors plan a building addition on the present New Ulm Medical Center building at Center and Garden. That addition will use up part of the present parking lot. The St. Paul’s playground ...