The reading of her rich American aunt's will teaches her clan to marvel. She set out as a farmer's daughter and threadcutter, catapulted to the stars as a show embroiderer - they are all there now, but who knows the Crazy Woman MAR?
Maria Antonia Räss' - MAR for short - dealings with celebrities such as Walt Disney and Coco Chanel went beyond the Appenzell scale. She built her Broderiehaus in a prime location in New York's Rockefeller Centre. And when she visits Appenzell, she upsets the locals by rocking through the undulating hills in the back of her white Cadillac with her black driver.