The State Street Theater Company (SSTC) is not bragging about its latest holiday show, it is really “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.” Performances are 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 and Saturday, Dec. 7, with a final show at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8 at the State Street Theater. “The Best ...
NEW ULM — Every year, the Community Friends Thanksgiving Dinner is held in the basement of St. Mary’s Church in New Ulm, with hundreds of guests being served throughout the day. The meal has undergone a few changes during its 36 years of serving the dinner, but the idea has remained the ...
Here are few of my favorite recent reads. Library staff would be happy to help you place requests on these or any other titles. If you’d like to place your own request, visit www.newulmlibrary.org and choose Library Catalog. Billy Barringer disappeared while camping in Ethan Marsh’s backyard when they were both ten years old. Ethan still dreams of that night, including the sccrrriiiiiiiiitch noise as the tent’s side was slashed. Did someone take Billy or did he wander away on his own? What about the mysterious camouflaged man who was seen in the neighborhood that same week? Or ...
NEW ULM — How does one get lemon drops out of cotton bags full of corn? That question can be answered by Gwen Mack, aka the lemon drop lady. The lemon drop lady is not a super hero per se, but one could easily consider Mack one with her selfless efforts to give back to patients with ...
The art of adding mother-of-pearl inlay to lacquerware has been practiced in Korea for more than a thousand years. The Korean term for it is Najeonchilgi, from the words najeon, meaning mother-of-pearl, and chilgi, lacquer. It is a lengthy process that requires skill and patience the artisan builds through years of training. The artisan must prepare the mother-of-pearl shells, cut them into delicate slices or intricate shapes, lacquer to the object to be decorated, apply the shells, add more coats of lacquer and finally sand and polish the object. Even today, artisans prefer using ...
By this time of the year, most of us in cooler climates have started wearing gloves. But gloves weren’t always relegated to wintry weather. In medieval Europe, they were a fashion accessory and status symbol. The fashion continued for hundreds of years. The finest gloves were made of luxurious materials like silk or delicate leathers and often had decorations like embroidery. And such beautiful accessories needed equally beautiful storage. This glove box, which sold for $1,722 at Soulis Auctions, was made by Moser, one of the most famous Bohemian (Czechoslovakian) glasshouses. It ...
