Weekend in New Ulm

I spent the weekend in New Ulm, Minnesota, an old time town settled by German immigrants in the 1850s who loved their beer (it is still home to Schell’s Brewing,the largest brewery in Minnesota.)  There were exhibits at the Brown County Historical Society that I wanted to see, one about prohibition and the other about the Gag family (more on that one later):



The brewing heritage of New Ulm continued through prohibition when the breweries were forced to make “near beer”, they had to paint over the word “beer” on the cases:



The town has numerous attractive buildings, many of which are still pretty much intact:

An old hotel has been converted to an art center, complete with cabaret:



It was definitely a place to meet and greet for “right-swipers”: