PHOTO OF THE DAY: HISTORIC EGGSAMPLE
Donna Zeeb, a historian and collector from Menno, discusses eggbeaters during her “Heritage Picker” demonstration at Schmeckfest Friday afternoon. Zeeb is one of 10 presenters featured at Heritage Hall Museum & Archives during Freeman’s 64th annual festival celebrating the Germans-from-Russia heritage, which continues and concludes Saturday, April 5. Here’s the full slate of the “Heritage Pickers” programming.
- 1:00: Dan Flyger – “Time Travel; Repatriating the 1868 Mandtler Clock”
- 1:20: Vanessa Barondeau – “Tooling Creations; A Study in Leather”
- 1:40: Brad Gering – “All Things Red: The Freeman Implement Story“
- 2:00: Jerry Merkouris – “Television Comes to the Prairie”
- 2:20: Caleb Epp – “The Twisted Tales of Rope Making”
- 2:40: Brad Schardin – “Rural Electrification; Flipping the Switch”
- 3:00*: Donna Zeeb – “Egg Beaters: More Precious Than Gems”
- 3:40: Thor Aanenson – “Rocks, Fossils and Minerals, Oh My!”
- 4:00*: Joan and Lisa Mueller – “A Child’s Perspective: Katy’s Story”
- 4:40: Kevin Waltner – “When Bales Were Small and Square”
The opening day of Schmeckfest on Friday was a wet one, with sporadic rains making conditions on the Freeman Academy campus less than ideal. But crowds were good; Friday’s meal was a sellout — which isn’t always the case — and the evening production of “Jane Eyre” generated a house that was nearly filled to capacity.
Schmeckfest on Saturday will also feature live cooking demonstrations, a Country Kitchen and food stand in Sterling Hall, sausage sales in the school’s maintenance building and a wide range of other demonstrations at the museum. The meal is served in the Pioneer Hall dining room from 3:45 p.m. until 7 p.m.
