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'A Happy 100' Gatheratmt.Horebeachi Year for Folklore Village Festival by HARRY JOHNSON Ltt> I International Dances, Food, Arts, Songs 'A Happy 100' GatheratMt.HorebEachi Year for Folklore Village Festival By HARRY JOHNSON ltt>""• ··1ft:· MT. HOREB - Folkways are friendly ways and it's a happy "100" who gather here each year for the Folklore Village Christ­ mas Festival. They come from as far as New York, California, Colorado and Texas, as well as Chicago and Madison. If their celebration starts when ours is over, there's a reason . •. Everyone wants to be home for Christmas while those who teach like the holiday period between Christmas and New Year. The nth Annual Folklore Vil­ lage Christmas Festival opened at the Mt. Horeb High School at noon on Dec. 27 and wound-up with a smorgasbord and dance on New Year's-eve and a fare­ well breakfast New Year's-morn­ ing. In between something was going on every minute so that the rooms obtained in the village for the visitors by Mrs. Leonard Peterson saw little of them dur­ Laurie Oden, Laredo, Texas; Anita Robinson, Luescher and the Ruefs were guests at the Wil­ ing the five days that they were Mt. Horeb; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Farwell, Dodge­ liam Tell party during the festival. Anita Rob­ eating, dancing and working at ville; sit in the front row as Karl Luescher and inson, Mt. Horeb High School sophomore, who the high school. Mr. and Mrs. William Ruef, New Glarus, get attended the festival and Mr. and Mrs. Farwell pl + + + Jane Farwell, Dodgeville, start- ready to entertain with their Alpine horns at are parents of Jane Farwell who founded the B the midnight Swiss party during the Folklore festivals in 1948. (All Photos by Burns Studio) C ed it all after she had become Village Christmas F e s t i v a l at Mt. Horeb. a nationally-recognized recreation leader. She gathered friends from coast-to-coast for the first festi­ val that was held in Mt. Horeb in 1948. The purpose was to re-create Christmas customs and folk tra­ ditions around the w o r l d, in­ cluding folk dancing and singing, nationality meals and ·the arts and crafts of different peoples. It is a tribute to her inspired leadership and the common in­ terests of the participants that the festivals have continued at Mt. Horeb all these years al­ though Jane is now married al\d living in Germany. ' Her cablegram from a folk dance camp in the Austrian alps was a highlight of the festival and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Farwell, who still live on the family farm near Dodgeville, were its most honored. guests. A s1ster, Mrs. Philippa.Nichols, Madison, did the rapid-fire· silk . screening for the many colorful ,,... programs and menus turned out each day of the festival. · . : + +. + . Richar4 Mann, Madison, bf front of the poster charge of the Swiss dinner, both of Chicago, are Th~ Folklo~e Vi1;1age Christmas that h~ painted for the Village Festiyal held last to •his right. The dog is Betty, St. Bernard fro Festival begms with the decora- week at Mt. Hoteb. Patricia Talbot, chairman Monroe, a guest ai the Swis5, Day Dinner alon tion of some dozen trees accord- of this yearis. event, and Win Hirschmann, in · . w~th her owners, Mr. aJ?d Mrs. ·Alfred Meier Sr ing to the customs of as many · different countries and ends with different countries and endijith the burning of these same Ch ·ist- mi s t r a e s in typical " 1th 1 , Night" or "Epipahny" fashion." ' · In between are five meals a day - breakfast, lunch, tea, din­ ner and midnight-s u p p e r-and dancing that starts right after breakfast and lasts until late at night. But it's not all "eat, drink and be merry" - there are workshops and classes off-and-on all day long. And there are plenty of expert instructors. Bill and Mary Frances Bunning were here again from Colorado Springs to teach various handi­ crafts. They haven't missed a fes­ tival since it was founded in 1948. Phil Merrill of New York City was on hand to teach English country dances, squares and con­ tras. John Filcich of San Francisco gave instruction in Croation, Ser­ bian and other Balkan dances. Paul and Gretel Dunsing of Chicago taught German dances and Grace Wolff of Dayton, Ohio taught general folk dancing and served a fabulous Pennsylvania Dutch dinner. John Filcich, San Francisco, leads a Croatian to right: Patricia Ne Ison, Hammond, Ind.; Phil Merrill and the Dunsings dance in front of the Croatian Christmas tree Frances Kostka, Madison; Polly Kruse, Barring­ also gave instruction in the r!l­ that he decorated with homemade angels, or· ton; Mary Tymkowych, Denver, Fllcich is corder, or block flute. anges, apples, strings of raisins, cookies and dressed in an authentic Croatian costume and Garsaran Notani of Bomb a y, candies and nuts wrapped in tinfoil. Phil Merrill, beneath the Christmas tree are the w o r d s India, up from the University of another dance instructor from New York City, "Sretan Bozic," or Merry Christmas. Illinois, demonstrated some East is playing the accordian. The othen are, left Indian dances. Henry Lash of West Virginia was the specialist who served the ;\ 1:·.··· meals with dishes of so many different lands . .... + + Monday was a typical day. A Dutch breakfast was served at 8, followed by dancing instruc­ tion in the high s c h o o 1 gym. nasium. Dinner was Swiss and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Meier, Sr. came from Monroe as guests, with their big St. Bernard, "Betty." Tea was a German "Kaffee Stunde" served by Gretel and Paul Dunsing. Mrs. Dunsing read the story: "The Littlest Stork," by Charles Tazewell. A lesson in the recorder, or block flute, an Iowa; Beatrice Woodworth, Garden City, N. Y.; C Dinner was Penn Dutch from Instrument that is becoming increasingly popular Mary Wolff, Dayton, Ohio; back row: Harsaran J• "bot boi" to "Shoo-fly-pie." in America-less strenuous than the more re· Notanu, Bombay, India, and Stuart Talbot, Chi- f The evening was spent at a c~nt.fad of the hula-~oop. Left to right, seated: cago, Ill. William Tell Festival and dance Virginia Nye, Madison: Mary Hays, Algona, in- the gym with Karl Luescher lage Christmas Festival closed The Christmas Herald. It came camp and classroom and for fam­ and Mr. and Mrs. William Ruef with the farewell breakfast New out every morning at brea,kfast- ily fun and neighborhood recrea- of New Glarus as guests. Year morning. time - just like on shipboard. tion. Ruef and Luescher played their + + + · Many participants are teachers There's s o m e t bing intimate Alpine horns at the Swiss mid- Jane Farwell and a few en- and they do things at this festival about folkways that once flour­ night-supper. thusiastic helpers did all the work with the same speed that would ished in isolated rural communi- , Sunday there was a Swedish the f i r s t few years but now be required in camp or class- ties aii over the world and were coffee hour, Danish "smorgas- there's a permanent committee: room. brought to America by our fore­ bord" and an English "high tea." Patricia Talbot, chairman for the Others are housewives, doc- fathers of so many different na­ An Italian breakfast and lunch 1958 festival, Dr. Martin Bach- tors, businessmen, engineers - tionalities. was served on Tuesday with a rach and Win Hirschmann, Chi- even a cotton farmer from Tex- Their sum-total is our national Greek dinner and a Balkan party cago; Mary Tymkowych, Denver, as - for whom the folk dances heritage. in the evening. Wednesday there Colo.; Laurie Oden, Laredo, Tex- and folk arts are an engrossing Perhaps all of us would be was an East Indian lunch, a as; Larry O'Brien, New Haven, hobby. the more human - and better Twelth Night tea and a Smorgas- Conn.; Russell Action, Danville, All will return home with many Americans - through an under­ bord and Twelth Nite Party and Ill. and Philippa Nichols, Madi- new ideas after five days spent standing of these old customs, Dance to celebrate New Year's son, Wis. with professionals and amateurs like those who gather each yea1 Eve. Mary Tymkowych published a who have the same interests. at Mt. Horeb for the Folklor, The 11th Annual Folklore Vil· daily paper for the festival - These ideas will be applied in Vi)l.age Christmas Festival. .
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