Music, readings, food will be at German festival
Friends of the Hillsboro Museums will present a German/Low German Folk Festival May 27 in conjunction with Hillsboro Family Festival.
The event will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Tabor's historic Mennonite Brethren Church on D Street, south of the college.
"The Low German program was the most popular event last year at the museums' Memorial Day Celebration so we're enlarging the program," said museums director Stan R. Harder. "We chose to hold the program in the historic church to accommodate overflow crowds we had in the one-room school house last year."
The program will include well-known speakers who are proficient in Low German. Don Huebert from Henderson, Neb., will give reminiscences in the morning session and talk about Low German folk sayings and proverbs in the afternoon.
Willmar Harder, pastor of the Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church, near Inman, will give a devotional entitled "De Gootet Schop Hoad" in morning and afternoon sessions.
Historical German music will be presented by Hillsboro German Choir and the Schnigglefritz Band.
Guided tours of Friesen Windmill and Peter Paul Loewen House located on the Mennonite settlement will be conducted between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Friends of the Hillsboro Museums will serve a lunch of grilled German sausage sandwiches and side dishes from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Scout House. Local ethnic food vendors also will have their products available.
Admission is $5 at the door or free with a Hillsboro Family Festival button.
