Volksfest is one of my favorite local festivals. It is a Swiss Independence Day celebration with music and dancing. Swiss choral folklore music, yodeling, flag throwing, alphorn playing, and accordion music.
There is a short parade out to the Tell Shooting Park on the edge of town.
Self-described as “America’s Little Switzerland,” New Glarus is a rural town in Wisconsin where a group of economic migrants from Glarus, Switzerland, moved in the mid-nineteenth century, fleeing deteriorating economic conditions at home.
Thalerschwinge
The Woodchopper dance
The old Post Bus was purchased privately and brought over from Switzerland.
