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Claudia Myers

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Claudia Myers is a former costume designer for The Baltimore Opera, Minnesota Ballet and has taught design and construction at the College of St. Scholastica. She is a national award-winning quilter, author and a local antique dealer, specializing in Persian rugs.

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Claudia Myers column: Can I sell you this lovely piece of junk?
Next to selling stuff, my favorite thing is finding out about stuff.
May 18, 2022 10:31 AM
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Claudia Myers column: One man’s treasure is another guy’s trash
We had a short history of buying furniture that was, let us say, out of the ordinary.
May 03, 2022 12:00 PM
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Claudia Myers column: A jock I'm not
Maybe we just didn’t like running. Maybe we just didn’t feel like running. In the 1950s, most women didn’t sweat, you know.
April 19, 2022 04:32 PM
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Claudia Myers column: Hazardous duty in Baltimore
Working in Baltimore was not all champagne and Bertha’s mussels.
April 06, 2022 10:01 AM
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Claudia Myers column: Outfitting the opera
The man who was directing the production had a reputation of using his immense imagination and lavish costume designs to accomplish his over-the-top versions of the old classic opera stories.
March 23, 2022 06:44 AM
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Claudia Myers column: Working for the ballet
There were 10 different directors in the years I was with the ballet company and I learned something from each one.
March 09, 2022 07:19 AM
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Claudia Myers column: Auf wiedersehen — 'I will remember'
Visuals of two years living in Germany.
February 23, 2022 06:00 AM
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Claudia Myers column: Have guidebook, will travel
I always refer to our first trip in Europe as “our honeymoon.” By the time we got to Germany, we had been married three years and had two children.
February 09, 2022 05:14 AM
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Claudia Myers column: Saturdays in western Germany
One of the first things I learned, while living for two years in Germany, was that the German folk had many unwritten, unspoken rules about the right way to do something. And that doing them the wrong way had not to do with your stupidity, but something to do with the quality of your character.
January 19, 2022 02:00 PM
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Claudia Myers column: A time warp in 1964 Germany
We started in Minnesota that morning, headed for Wiesbaden, where hopefully my husband, Tom, would come to our rescue and drive us to our new home for the next two years: Bitburg Air Base.
January 12, 2022 05:30 AM
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