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Tradition at heart of pageant
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Times photo: Tere Dunlap Linda Schiesser helps usherette Jessica Schieldt with her Bern canton dress Sunday at the ethnic fashion show during the Wilhelm Tell Pageant. Schiesser wore the dress when she was an usherette from 1956 to 1962. Schiesser is dressed in a Sunday outfit from the Glarus canton.
NEW GLARUS - Just as traditions are handed down in New Glarus, so are the outfits.The Wilhelm Tell Pageant held Friday to Monday in New Glarus started in 1938.