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Milford 4-H Club says ‘Thank You’ to New Ulm Community Education The Milford 4-H Club would like to say “Thank You” to the New Ulm Area Community Education Program for the grant dollars we received for our successful community services project entitled “Bags of Joy.” We would like to thank everyone with Meals on Wheels for allowing us to partner with them to deliver the “Bags of Joy” on Monday February 20th. We also like to thank the drivers who allowed us to follow them while delivering the meals and for helping us deliver the bags we put together for the senior ...

Windsor chairs marked by distinctive spindle backs

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The Bonhams Skinner auction where this chair sold listed it as a Harvard University Windsor chair, bringing together two icons of colonial America. Harvard University, originally called the New College, was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1636, making it the oldest college in the United States. This means that Harvard predates the Windsor chair in America. The first Windsor chairs were made in England in the seventeenth century, and they were being made in Philadelphia by the 1730s. There were many variations on the Windsor chair, especially in America. Like most early ...

Learning healthy eating habits

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B The Light offers support to breast cancer survivors and their families through connection and programs. The group was inspired by New Ulm caregiver Amber Melby’s aunt, Brenda Plinke, who battled metastatic breast cancer for 18 years before dying at 58. Cooking Beyond Cancer is B The ...

NUHS presents The Man Who Came to Dinner

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Did you ever have a house guest who just wouldn’t leave? New Ulm Public High School’s spring play, “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” is a classic stage comedy about a guest overstaying his welcome, pushed to the extreme. The high school will be holding performances at 7 p.m. Friday, ...

It’s finally Spring!

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Spring has finally sprung! I am so happy the vernal equinox has finally occurred and it’s spring. I am looking for green grass, new buds on the trees, flowers pushing up from the soil, and new books to read while I wait out the next three or four weeks until spring really starts here in south-central Minnesota. Caldecott Honor author and illustrator Marla Frazee gives us an uplifting picture book about blessings with In Every Life. This book has very few words but they aren’t necessary. The message of this book is told through the beautiful illustrations that carry the idea that in ...

Mocha ware was utilitarian pottery made beautiful

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To a pottery collector, a “mocha mug” isn’t meant for a coffee drink. “Mocha” is a type of decorated earthenware pottery made in England and sold in America in the early 1800s. Mocha pottery, or mocha ware, is usually utilitarian; pieces were originally used in the kitchen or during meals. It has colorful decorations painted in a slip glaze made from clay thinned with water to a liquid consistency. The decorations are usually painted over white glaze. Traditional patterns have descriptive names, like “banded,” “checked” and “marbled,” or repeated “tulip,” ...