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Article: WILHELM TELL FEST FIRES UP NEW GLARUS.(EDITORIAL)(PLAIN TALK)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
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- August 29, 2003
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Byline: Dave Zweifel
The community of New Glarus is all spiffed up for this weekend's big Wilhelm Tell Festival, an affair that actually starts tonight with a lantern parade on the village streets.
The big show, of course, is the presentation of the drama in which Tell is forced to shoot an apple from his son's head at a full one hundred paces, an event that lore has it opened the way for Switzerland to break free of Austria.
That play, which will be held on the Tell grounds just west of the village, will be presented in English at 1 on Saturday and in German at 1 on Sunday. It's all done outside, complete with live horses and cows, and for the ...