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Article: New Glarus natives return for `Wilhelm Tell' production.(TRAVEL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 24, 2003
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Byline: H.J. Cummins; Staff Writer
In New Glarus, Wis., children grow up with two founding-father stories. There's the guy who crossed the Delaware River with his troops, and allegedly cut down a cherry tree. Then there's the guy who shot an arrow through an apple on his son's head.
It's the second guy that this small town of Swiss origin honors every Labor Day weekend with a full-fledged production of the Friedrich Schiller play, "William Tell" - or Wilhelm Tell in German.
For 65 years, families have spent chunks of each summer sewing costumes and rehearsing scenes to perform - in both English and German - the legend of the marksman whose courage united his ...