European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Shepherds focal Point it colourful revolving King and Queen below look a bit More sheepish than throngs flock to the festival in it Small wild and woolly tradition sheer Delight Shepherd girls balance tubs on their Heads in unusual race shepherds from Miles around will gather at participate in the oldest Folk Estiva of the Small Hamlet near Stuttgart will be crowded As a sheep pen As natives and the philosophers of the Meadows gather to watch the traditional shepherds dance and the the faithful the play is supposedly based on a real event which brought the festival into be ing in the year the cast includes a his faithful retainer and the the count went off to the wars leaving his Castle and goods in the hands of his the servants wasted no they began August 1965 by Bob Stuttgart Bureau padding the accounts and Selling House hold pocketing the All except who refused to gel involved with his dishonest the count covered with glory and but materially the to take his mind off Tak ing an were fulsome in their displays of affection and to get revenge on Bartyl for being so Hon they told the count that Bartyl had pulled the Wool Over his eyes by Selling the sheep while he was the taking a dim View of being disguised himself As a Butcher and tried to get Bartel to sell him a the honest Bartel replied with the stars and stapes a couple of socks to the the battered count decided that Bartyl had been and punished the other history of the dance is but it is known that the Duke of  visited the dance in 1336 and emptied a huge Flagon of wine without removing it from his about this drink ing vast quantities of wine joined the festival tradition and in it is reported the town councillors consumed a fat roast o Mutton and a approximately 40 Gallons of wine went Down their naturally loosening up the festive at the the highlight of the is performed on both Days of the ii