Mar 5, 2021 11:54 AM
The Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau is awarding $225,000 in grant money to 11 local businesses impacted by the pandemic. Executive Director Pam Seidl says this one time grant will go the hardest hit businesses.
The Fox Cities Performing arts Center, Fox Valley Symphony, The Building for Kids, Trout Museum of Art, Bubolz Nature Preserve, Attic Theatre, Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass, Paper Discovery Center, Friends of Grignon Mansion, Octoberfest and Appleton Downtown Incorporated also received money.
What s True
Erwin Perzy, an Austrian surgical instruments mechanic, created one of the first snow globes in 1900 while attempting to fashion a brighter light bulb. What s False
Origin
In December 2020, with the holiday season just around the corner, an interesting tidbit about the ubiquitous snow globe ornament was circulated on social media:
[Today I Learned] that snow globes were accidentally invented by a medical tool repair man. He was trying to make a brighter light bulb for operating rooms, so he tried using a water filled glass with reflective particles to do this. The effect looked like snow to him which is how he got the idea for snow globes.