2025 52 Card Project: Week 35: New Ulm

[pegkerr]

Eric and took a one-day road trip to New Ulm this past weekend, a little Year of Adventure event. We ate lunch at a friendly bistro, Lola's and then spent an absorbing hour touring the childhood home of Wanda Gág, the owner of Millions of Cats. The two docents seemed absolutely delighted to have visitors and almost talked our ears off about the Gág family.

There were a couple of other stops, to poke around an antique store or two, and to take pictures at the statue of Hermann the Cheruscan ("Hermann the German"), the statue of Wanda Gág in front of the public library, and the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame. A very pleasant getaway.

Image Description: A Victorian Queen Anne home, overlaid with a black and white picture of a young woman holding an easel and paintbrush. Left: A guitar in the shape of the Prince Love symbol, made of musical instruments (the instrument's neck is a keyboard). Right: an iron lamppost. Center: the statue of Herman the German, sword raised, overlaid with a statue of Wanda Gág reading to a cat. Right corner: a black cat with an arched back. Upper right: logo for Lola Bistro.

New Ulm



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Comments

[dreamshark]

New Ulm is fun. We stopped there with Amber's family on our way to a stay in a state park in western Minnesota. Hermann Heights Park on the way out and dinner at the historic Rathskeller on the way back. It sounds like New Ulm boasts a lot more attractions that we didn't even know about.

[queenbookwench]

Yay for manageably sized adventures and interesting chatty docents!