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Climate Prep Week

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This past week is designated as Climate Preparedness Week. Many organizations across the country host informative or practical events to better understand weather or to prepare for emergencies. Our big event each year is the New Ulm Emergency Preparedness Fair held, for the past two years, in conjunction with the city’s National Night Out festivities. I would like to extend my gratitude to all of our community partners who make the emergency preparedness fair a success. Truly, when we work together we can achieve so much more. For centuries, the go-to topic of polite, banal ...

Form vs function: Debate surfaces over teapot

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By Terry and Kim Kovel Artists of all levels, critics and admirers alike have long wondered: What is art? Collectors of ceramics face a slightly more specific question: What is art pottery? To a collector, the term “art pottery” usually refers to a kind of pottery made in the U.S. from ...

Disc golf basket cases

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Those who have gone to the various parks around the area may have noticed a new structure popping up in several of them over the past few years — chain-link hoops, serving as holes for a disc golf course. The sport has become more popular in recent years, and the reasons are clear — disc ...

Identifying the maker of furniture is not always easy

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Identifying furniture can be tricky. Crediting a maker is often a matter of “style” or “attributed to.” Some makers’ names come to mean entire styles or time periods, like Chippendale for example. Some styles remain popular for centuries or get revived multiple times. Well-made copies of early pieces can even fool museums. So, when you find a piece of antique furniture with a maker’s mark or signature, like this Louis XVI Revival chair by Alexander Roux, which sold for $1,230 at Brunk Auctions, it’s a rare and fortunate event. The auction’s description noted that Roux, ...

Celebrating National Library Card Sign-Up Month

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“Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.” – Laura Bush Library cards are indeed valuable. Consider these statistics for just last month at the New Ulm Public Library: · 11,272 physical items checked out · 710 eBook checkouts · 1,072 eAudiobook checkouts · 905 computer sessions · 5,337 wifi sessions All of these things were free at the library! But library value cannot be ...