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Friday, August 10, 2012
Volume 8 • Issue No. 32
Royal Lipizzaner Stallions Perform at Hamilton House Story and photo by C.Ayn Douglass Staff Columnist SOUTH BERWICK – A piece of Historic New England hosted a piece of historic Austria last weekend when Herrmann’s Royal Lipizzaner troop appeared at Hamilton House in South Berwick. Lipizzaners date back to the 16th century and were originally bred from Andalusian and Arabian bloodlines for the Hapsburg royal family of Austria. During World War 11, General George Patton led a dramatic rescue of the horses ahead of the Russian advance, and that story was doc-
A Royal Lippizzaner that featured at Hamilton House last weekend
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umented in Disney’s “Miracle of the White Stallions.” In keeping with that military tradition, riders are outfitted in military uniforms. On August 3, 4, and 6, fourteen stallions and seven riders thrilled horse lovers with dramatic and graceful moves on the grounds of Hamilton House. While appearing like a ballet, the intricate formations were developed as part of battlefield strategy. Rebecca McCullough is a third generation Herrmann granddaughter of Ottomar Herrmann who brought the stallions to America in the 1960s. She
and her mother, Gabriella Herrmann, are on tour from June through October in the northeast and spend the winters at their farm in Myakka City, Florida, teaching riding and dressage. “After Patton saved them, the Herrmann family was given a couple of horses,” she said. “We came to America and settled in Vermont and then in Florida. We keep our riders in military-based clothing partly in honor of Patton and his rescue of the horses and partly to make it pretty.” McCullough said the See LIPIZZANER page 4...
Local Wood Carver to Teach His Craft
One of Noble’s local heroes talks about trip Story by Sharon Beckwith NORTH BERWICK “Welcome back.” “You got some sun.” “How was your trip?” “Was it successful?” “Did you have a good time?” All genuine questions
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posed when one returns to Maine from a summer adventure. But how do you answer when you feel like you’ve traveled through time warps and experienced the unimaginable? Not a reasonable, pert answer can be readily developed on the fly. Which part
do you divulge to the one who asked? Do you describe the rush of hot, humid air as you walk out the airport doors into what often looks like “the land before time?” Perhaps you should smile politely as you describe handSee HONDURAS page 10...
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These duck decoys – a blue winged teal pair, hollow wood, painted with artist acrylics - took 1st and 2nd place at the Ward World Championship this past April. (courtesy photo)
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Six Students to Learn to Create Duck Decoys
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Hand-making tortillas to feed more than 100 children (courtesy photo)
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ELIOT – Jim Higgins, a wood carver from Eliot, is one of fourteen artists from around the country to have been selected as part of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Higgins is to teach six students from Maine and New Hampshire how to carve and paint a working decoy through a project with the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art, Salisbury University. “I’ve been making decoys forever,” Higgins said. “But I haven’t taught it in probably fifteen, eighteen years.” Higgins said the students were selected by word of mouth. “It went very quickly.
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Within hours of finding out I was involved, friends in the business talked to people and filled half the positions. I have a neighbor who was interested.” Higgins said he was hoping to get some high school kids involved, to help lengthen the tradition by teaching it to the young. “The youngest is twentythree (years old), and the oldest is probably quite a bit older than that. I wouldn’t hazard a guess,” he said. “Three of the students have never made a decoy in their lives; the other three have a bit of experience.” See WOOD CARVER page 9...
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