By Terry and Kim Kovel Every obsolete device was once the latest technology. A clothes iron heated by charcoal might sound laughably old-fashioned today, but it was an improvement on the earlier sadirons. “Sad” was an old word for “heavy,” and sadirons got their name from the solid ...
NEW ULM — After a long week of work, Trent Loverude hops into his stock car and hits the dirt oval on the weekends to race, a hobby he’s had since he could drive. One thing Loverude isn’t doing is masking his competitive side and his will to win. He’s been successful at showing that ...
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 This resource allows access to historical content from Minnesota’s cultural heritage organizations, all in one place.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 -- 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 ...
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 ...
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 “All You Need is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words, Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by the Beatles and Their Inner Circle” by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines.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 ...
