#new ulm

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N Washington Street, New Ulm, Minnesota.

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My grandfather would always say "the peanut business reminds us of the humble nature of our time on earth".

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Eibner's in New Ulmer, year unknown via History Handbook

Eibner's was a successful restaurant, candy shop, bakery, and ice cream parlor in downtown New Ulm. It was founded in 1883 by Willibald Eibner, a German immigrant from Bavaria. The restaurant slowly became one of the best in Southern Minnesota. Willibald's wife, Mary, was a great dressmaker and an excellent cook. After many years of success, Eibner's closed in 1975.

Hot Potato Salad served at Eibner’s in New Ulm:

½ cup water

¼ cup vinegar

¼ cup sugar

½ teaspoon salt

1 onion, grated

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon cornstarch

3 strips bacon, fried and cut into cubes

2-3 potatoes cooked, peeled, and sliced

Parsley to taste

Heat water, vinegar, sugar, salt, onion, and butter to boiling point.

Thicken mixture with cornstarch. Add bacon to sauce.

Pour hot over potatoes that have been cooked with their jackets on, peeled and sliced. Sprinkle the dish with chopped parsley.

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Valley Grain Co. I

Canon FT-QL

Kodacolor 200

5.13.2018

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Earendil & Elwing` story by  游离态E君_甘道夫的烟花

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Unexpected Sagittarian Adventures

This morning I went out to get good coffee with my partner. It was just a casual trip to Mocha Monkey in Waconia, a small exurb southwest of Minneapolis. Who could have known that on the way back home to the city my steering wheel would somehow take me across the Minnesota prairies to the city of New Ulm in the Minnesota River valley, over 100 miles from home!

I had never been to New Ulm before. I always wanted to go there and tour some of the breweries in town, but maybe in better times to come. The city of New Ulm is quaint but has some stunning architecture, but nothing could have prepared me for what I would see overlooking the river valley, but a 102 foot tall monument to Hermann the German. New Ulm has had a lot of immigrants from Germany, and Hermann (otherwise known historically as Arminius) is a bit of a German national icon. I’d like to come back here in the summer, as at that time the monument is open to visitors, and you can allegedly go up to the top for $3.

A Landscape Scoured by Raging Waters

Atop the edge of the plateau overlooking the Minnesota River valley and the city of New Ulm, I couldn’t help but stand in awe of the width of the valley. The Minnesota River is a lazy meandering channel amid wetlands and oxbows. The waterway is only about 200 feet across on average, whereas the river valley is two and a quarter miles across. 

In the last photo, I’m standing at the fence around the monument, and the valley dips down steeply only a few feet away. The statue and I are standing on the shore of the ancient River Warren: a once raging torrent that filled the whole valley at the end of the Ice Age. If New Ulm was there 10,000 years ago it would have been completely submerged and of course, washed away.

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“Whoopee John” Wilfahrt and Minnesota Polka

Born outside of New Ulm in 1893, John Wilfahrt became one of the nation’s most famous and most beloved polka musicians. Legend has it he earned his “Whoopee John” nickname from the “Whoopee!” and “Yoo-hoo!” interjections he added to his songs. An accordion player, Wilfahrt began playing for weddings in southern Minnesota as a boy. By the late 1920s, he had moved to the Twin Cities and soon became a regular feature on WTCN radio. A 1940s newspaper poll hailed Whoopee John as the third-most popular Twin Cities celebrity. Whoopee John’s popularity went far beyond the local radio. When the new Decca record label formed, Whoopee John was the second act they signed. (Bing Crosby was first.) Whoopee John and his band recorded around 1,000 songs for Decca, including his hallmark “Mariechen Waltz.”

Whoopee John passed away in 1961. In 1974, St. Louis Park musician Vern Steffel bought Whoopee John’s music library from his son and restarted the Whoopee John Orchestra. Whoopee John was inducted into the International Polka Association Hall of Fame in 1976.

Photo from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

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Historic American Buildings Survey, Charles E. Peterson, Photographer October 6, 1940 - Julius Berndt House, New Ulm, Brown County, MN