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Article: TELL FEST IS APPLE OF NEW GLARUS' EYE.(METRO)
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- The Capital Times
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- August 21, 2003
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Byline: Joe Potente The Capital Times
The courageous scene has played itself out in New Glarus each summer since 1938.
The crowd in the natural amphitheater collectively holds its breath while Wilhelm Tell, the mythical Swiss hero, draws his arrow, aiming directly at an apple resting on his son's head. He releases the bow, and the arrow goes flying, a hundred paces in the air, before it stabs the apple straight on, knocking it to the ground.
The crowd can let out a sigh of relief now, as Wilhelm and his child, Walter, have acted to avenge the tyrannical eye of Austria and its evil vice regent, Herman Gessler.
In this scene, the players ...