NEW ULM — One Sock, a band based out of Martin Luther College, has had a pretty standard journey for a band started in high school. A few cover performances here, a talent show appearance there. But last year, One Sock took that one step further. One Sock released its album, “Cicero,” in ...

Vishe’ Rabb isn’t unfamiliar with German culture, playing high school basketball in Springfield, Minnesota, a city established largely by Scandinavian, Irish and German settlers. The 2017 Springfield High School grad is, however, getting a much closer look at German culture now. Rabb, ...

NEW ULM - In November 2000, Anne Makepeace and her family bought the building that formerly housed The Grand Hotel at 210 North Minnesota St. for its historic significance dating back to 1956. Makepeace’s great-great-great grandfather Phillip H. Gross built New Ulm’s first hotel, the ...

The Brown County Historical Society (BCHS) Museum is home to around 20,000 artifacts; 100,000 photographs and even more historical documents and a finite amount of display space. “About 1% of our collection is on display,” BCHS museum curator Ryan Harren. “The museum has about 4,000 ...

Ethan Schoof didn’t start really taking playing guitar seriously until after high school. But once he did, his career took off. “It’s hard to pinpoint an exact starting point,” Schoof, who goes by Ethan Todd on stage, said. “I’ve been playing guitar since I was 13, but I didn’t ...

Sometimes, people like to think of the past as a steady, stable time where tradition ruled the day. Ironically, learning about antiques can prove that notion wrong; and some of the best lessons can come from 19th-century furniture. Technological advances made complicated furniture designs more ...