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Minitex services offer a variety of resources including scholarly databases from high school to graduate level, item requests from libraries across the state, historical archives, job and licensure exam preparation, over 9,000 e-books for all ages, and a robust online module for writing, editing, and publishing your own work! This article describes just one of these amazing resources, “The Minnesota Digital Library.” This resource allows access to historical content from Minnesota’s cultural heritage organizations, all in one place. You can find “The Minnesota Digital ...

Brown County Fair Horticulture results

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BROWN COUNTY -- This year’s Brown County Fair Horticultural Division offered 400 entries to view. There were 138 vegetable, herb and fruit specimens, 162 flower specimens, 41 artistic arrangements, 10 Senior Citizen entries, eight bouquets, seven oddity vegetables, one sculpture entry, and two children entries. The Brown County Master Gardeners were on hand from noon to 10 pm daily to answer gardening questions and direct gardeners to the University of Minnesota Extension website for further information on many topics. The top questions by gardeners seemed to be about pollinator ...

Creating a pollinator garden for the ages

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Bees and butterflies can be seen hopping around native prairie plants in Ken Varland’s large pollinator garden behind his residence on the west edge of New Ulm. “I spent a career, 39 years with a couple state agencies restoring prairie like this,” said Varland, a retired DNR regional ...

Attention: Music lovers

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If you want to know more of the story about some of your favorite musicians, check out the following titles from our new nonfiction shelf. “All You Need is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words, Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by the Beatles and Their Inner Circle” by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines. Learn all the back stage, never before told, often shocking, details of life with the Beatles. Focusing on the year 1963, “Shake it Up Baby: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963” by Ken McNab will take you inside the meteoric rise of the Beatles, from small clubs in ...

Art glass collectors buzz about Daum glassworks

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By Terry and Kim Kovel Bees are native to every continent on Earth except Antarctica. With their prevalence in nature and their benefits to humans, in the forms of pollinating plants and producing honey, it’s no wonder they are often seen in decorative arts. They play important roles in religion, mythology and folklore all over the world. They were a symbol of royalty in ancient Lower Egypt, a symbol for the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi and part of Napoleon’s coat of arms. They also appear as decorative motifs, invoking their historical symbolism or simply adding realism to ...

Recent reads

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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. Lyla’s boyfriend, Nico, is a struggling actor who believes that an appearance on a new reality dating competition could offer him the exposure he needs to get his big break. Lyla reluctantly agrees to appear on the show with him. At least it will be a free vacation to an island paradise. She’ll find a way to get eliminated early, and Nico can go on to win the ...