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NORDIC SPIRIT NEWS Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation Spring 2014 VOL. 24 No. 1

40TH ANNUAL SCANDINAVIAN FESTIVAL APRIL 5 - 6, 2014 at CLU

KIDS are coming VIKINGS are coming STARS are coming

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he 40th annual Scandinavian Festival at CLU takes place Saturday and Sunday, April 5-6, celebrating Nordic cultures with music, dancing, food, lectures, demonstrations, vendors and activities for young and old.

With a continued focus on providing affordable family fun, the festival will host the second annual “Sven and Ole Olympics” in which children can compete for medals in activities including a relay, three-legged race and troll-trot.

Festival goers can try their hand at Dala horse croquet, play an ancient Viking game called Kubb and visit the Ravens of Odin Viking encampment, and a Saami siiddastallan (community gathering). Crafts for children will include sanding butter knives and decorating head wreaths. Other activities such as talks by Ernst F. Tonsing will also take place, and the Scandinavian marketplace will be open for shopping. A Nordic church service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Samuelson Chapel.

Admission is $8 for adults, $4 for And on the main stage, the newly teenagers, and children are free. named “Viking Cruises Theater,” a Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturroster of celebrated Scandinavian day and Sunday. and Scandinavian-American artists will perform throughout the weekend. Tickets can be purchased at a New attractions include a Childiscount online at the Festival webFor those who want to master dren’s Theater and performances by site: heritage arts and skills, Nelius Roncommunity school and children’s ning will emcee demonstrations on groups. Professional musician and scandinavinanfestival.org entertainer Ross Sutter and Norwe- how to make lefse, krumkake, and other Scandinavian food delicacies. gian storyteller Stina Fagertun will Craft demonstrations will include host and perform for the children, woodcarving, knitting, Hardanger inside.. who will also be treated to a Hans embroidery, weaving, Viking artiChristian Andersen puppet show, NORDIC SPIRIT 2014 WILD WEST 4 “The Emperor and the Nightingale.” facts, rosemaling and bobbin lace HALL of FAME: Three Lucky Swedes 5 making. A line-up of Scandinavian performing artists will bring back some old favorites, as well as some newcomers.

SAMI SLED SOARS at CLU

STAR LINE-UP AT SCANDINAVIAN FESTIVAL SHOWTIME!

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SACHF CELEBRATES ROOTS WITH PERFORMERS, HUMANITARIANS, ARTISTS

2013 in review

SEPTEMBER: Hans Skalagard, “Man of the Sea,” an outstanding By HOWARD K. ROCKSTAD painter of ships, was honored in a Scandinavian American Hall of Fame FEBRUARY: The Nordic Spirit in California program. Skalagard was symposium program for 2013, born on the Faroe Islands, spent years “Scandinavian Peacemakers and on sailing ships, began drawing and Humanitarians,” was described by painting ships at the age of 8, and at 90 many as the best in the long-running is still painting. The program consisted series. of presentations in CLU’s Roth-Nelson From an opening talk on the soft SACHF hosts Swedish performers at CLU Room and concluded with a reception global power of the Nordic countries at the Scandinavian Center. to discussions that included former US JUNE: Twenty-nine performers from ambassador to Norway, Tom Loftus, Sweden put on a musical folk play, the audience paid rapt attention. “Värmlänningarne,” in Samuelson Chapel at CLU. This performance, APRIL: The annual Scandinavian hosted by SACHF, was one of only two Festival in Kingsmen Park of California performances in Southern California. Lutheran University, the largest ScandiThe play developed around a romance navian festival in the southwest, between a poor farmer’s daughter and continued the then 39-year tradition a wealthy landowner’s son. Complete of celebrating Nordic heritage with with numerous wood props from rakes delicious food, crafts for children and to a characteristic rural fence, the adults, vendors and entertainment. Thousand Oaks play was a delightful Highlights included the ABBA Girlz and well-executed performance that tribute band from New York, a Sami Hans Skalagard painting attracted an audience of more than storyteller from Norway, a bunad show, 150 people. and much more. Ten of his paintings are on exhibit in the Center. The Skalagards donated The NORDIC SPIRIT NEWSLETTER two paintings to SACHF, a painting of the Christian Radich – a training ship THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL & HISTORICAL FOUNDATION, INC. made famous by the film Windjammer – The Scandinavian Center at California Lutheran University 60 W. Olsen Road – 2600, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 and a painting of another famous Norwegian ship, Lancing. Richard Londgren, Scandinavian Center Director Anita Hillesland Londgren, Program Director

President Vice President Secretary CFO

Larry Ashim Knut Oxnevad Joy Brooks Paul Meyer

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Larry Ashim, Joy Brooks, Siri Eliason, Laura Engstrom, Ron Finely, Michael D. Hart, Jack Holmgren, Ingrid Isaksen, Lynda Jones, Gary N. Lindgren, Anita Hillesland Londgren, Kirsten Lucas, Lana Lundin, Lowell Lykken, Paul Meyer, Niels Mikkelsen, Knut Oxnevad, Howard Rockstad, Joann Adsø Scott, Ernst F. Tonsing, Elaine Williams editor Judith Gabriel Vinje [email protected]

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OCTOBER: Hans Torsten Olsson, was honored as the 2013 Outstanding Scandinavian American for his many creative contributions in wood to the Scandinavian Center, extending from what we might call a “museum-quality” reproduction of a Sami sled (see p. 8) to a four-foot model of the Borgund, Norway, stave church. ♦

what’s new at scan fest? Theater for kids, healthy food for the diet, and music and dancing for the soul... the 40th annual Scandinavian Festival is destined to be a remarkable and memorable event for young and old.

As Festival Director, Lykken has been working along with Ingrid Windsor, Family Activities Director. Directing other Festival activities are Joy Brooks and Kirsten Lucas, children’s crafts; Lana Lundin, children’s activities; Niels Mikkelsen, business; Ingrid Isaksen, Opening Ceremony; Laurel Engstrom, “Take a Liking to a Viking” photo activity; and Elaine Williams, craft demonstrations. Viking Cruises joins Festival sponsors

And there are several new features. Festival Director Lowell Lykken, a Westlake Village resident and retired engineer, is energized about changes and additions in the Festival this year.

For the first time, Viking Cruises, the world’s leading cruise line, headquartered in Woodland Hills, is sponsoring the Viking Cruises Theater at the Scandinavian Festival . Viking Cruises originates in Scandinavia and the owner, Torstein Hagen is Norwegian.

”We are especially excited about changes in the food area,” Lykken said. “We did a survey about last year’s festi- LOWELL LYKKEN val, sending out more than 1,000 Festival Director e-mails to people who had attended. The main area for improvement that was noted is the need for healthy food options. We now have three new vendors with healthy Scandinavian selections, and former vendors are adding new food options.”

Besides Viking Cruises, Festival sponsors include the Barbara Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Thrivent, City of Thousand Oaks and Sons of Norway, as well as the Ventura County Star and Vasa Park.

MISSION: Preserve and promote Scandinavian Heritage and Culture for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations

“We are most grateful to CLU for the tremendous support it gives to the Festival,” Lykken said. “And to everyone who has shared in making the 40th Scandinavian Festival the best yet.” ♦

LETTER FROM the SACHF PRESIDENT

THREE CROWN JEWELS:

Symposium, Festival, Center

What good comes from membership the space for the Scandinavian Center. in SACHF? Your membership helps It opens its campus for the Scandinavian make these projects possible. The Festival each April. It allows the SympoFoundation receives grants from some sium to use Samuelson Chapel each Is SACHF fulfilling its mission state- organizations to help put on the Sympo- February. CLU believes the Foundament? In a word – yes! sium and Festival. Those projects also tion’s activities enhance the University Throughout the pages of this news- generate money from ticket sales. and its mission. letter are articles describing the projects But there is little left after paying In recognition of CLU’s contribution, and activities SACHF conducts through- the expenses to put on the events. Your this year SACHF helped sponsor The out the year. membership helps keep the Scandinavi- Representational Art Conference held in Its major projects I often describe as an Center open and covers overhead Ventura in March. This CLU organized SACHF’s Three Crown Jewels. Each expenses such as this newsletter. We event featured Norwegian artist Odd February the Nordic Spirit Symposium thank those of you who are members Nerdrum and attracted about 300 people brings a new topic with a scholarly apand encourage others to become mem- from throughout the world. The attendproach to the public. Each April the bers. ance was nearly three times that of the Scandinavian Festival brings 5,000 visiSACHF could not exist in its present first TRAC held 18 months ago. tors to the California Lutheran University form without the generous support of campus to enjoy Scandinavian related LEONARD SMITH CLU. The University provides us with 1932 - 2013 entertainment, food, and shopping. Throughout the year the I conclude this letter with the sad news of the passing of Scandinavian Center is busy with a Leonard Smith in August 2013. Leonard served on the weekly Brown Bag lecture series; lanSACHF board of directors for many years. He contributed guage, lace-making, and genealogy many worthwhile ideas to the Foundation. His gregarious classes and groups; and visitors to the library and museum. More and more the personality made him an enthusiastic recruiter for the Foundation. He is greatly missed. ♦ Center is being used by outside groups Larry Ashim, SACHF President for their meetings. By LARRY ASHIM PRESIDENT OF SACHF

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NORDIC SPIRIT SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATES SCANDINAVIANS IN THE WILD WEST

fter welcoming remarks and greetings by California Lutheran University president Dr. Chris Kimball and Honorary Consul of Norway Michael Soroy, the 2014 Nordic Spirit symposi- By HOWARD K. ROCKSTAD Symposium Founder, Director um, Scandinavians in the Old West, opened on a high note one Friday evening in February with a discussion Painting by Birger Sandzén courtesy of the on the “myth of the West” as viewed by Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS Swedes and Swedish immigrants. Jennifer Easton Attebery, professor of EngThe Saturday program began with a tation on several civically-active lish and folklore at the University of Ida- discussion by SACHF member Olaf Scandinavians and their legacy in the ho, described how Swedes read SweEngvig of the “Scandinavian Navy,” the Northwest. Early Swedes in Kingsburg, dish-language translations of American Scandinavian-operated Pacific Coast California, were discussed by retired cartoons such as the Buffalo Bill series, lumber schooners that were so imattorney Bob Peterson. His talk was and formulated mythical images of the portant to the development of the West punctuated by excerpts from a new vidAmerican West. as they brought Pacific Northwest lum- eo on Kingsburg and its Swedish heritThe Nordic Spirit symposium contin- ber south. age that was produced by Sofie and ues its important partnerships with CaliSeveral other SACHF members Brad Thornton. fornia Lutheran University and the Bar- were part of the program, including Judith Lähde Reynolds, art history bro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. Both Mary Hekhuis, Dr. Ernst F. (Fred) professor at Fort Lewis College, partnerships are essential to this annual Tonsing, Dr. Dorothy Schechter and Colorado, described how the Mesa symposium series for the public. Marilyn Molinari. Mary Hekhuis, of Finn- Verde cliff dwellings were made famous Kristine Calara, associate vice presi- ish heritage herself, told about the inby a young Swedish scientist of Finnish dent for University advancement, ventions and escapades of Finnish im- noble descent. Sometimes called, perattended some of the sessions and migrant Oscar Wirkkala, who revolution- haps derisively, the “Baron of Mesa wrote, “We appreciate you making the ized the logging industry on the steep Verde,” Gustaf Nordenskiöld published symposium possible at CLU. I had the slopes of the Pacific Northwest forests. the first scientific study of the ancient opportunity to participate in a small part Fred Tonsing gave an illustrated cliff dwellings. Seen as an outsider, he of the symposium and found it to be program on the “Three Lucky ignited American prejudice against forquite educational and fascinating.” In a Swedes” (one was Norwegian) in the eigners, and severe local opposition to separate message she wrote, “It was so Alaska gold rush and how they became his collection of artifacts from Mesa good to participate in the Nordic Spirit benefactors to their home countries as Verde resulted in his imprisonment and Symposium this year even for just a part well as Alaska, San Francisco and Oak- international controversy. of the program. It’s very well done and land. CLU Professor Emeritus Dorothy Ron Michael, curator of the Birger attracts a good following of people. Schechter provided delightful Grieg sto- Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg, What a great turnout you had! Thanks ries and music with her incomparable Kansas, talked about the life of Sanfor providing such a wonderful educaskills at the piano. Marilyn Molinari dzén and gave a grand illustrated tional opportunity to our Scandinavian opened the Saturday afternoon program presentation of the artist’s dramatic community and region.” with a brief sing-along, which she conpaintings of Kansas, Rocky Mountain, The Friday evening program continued in the evening after the symposi- and Southwest landscapes to conclude cluded on a light-hearted note as John um dinner. the afternoon program. Mark Nielsen, executive director of the For the first time in its 15 year histoThe 2014 Nordic Spirit symposium Danish Museum in Elkhorn, Iowa, gave ry, the symposium brought a student was topped off by a delicious dinner a lively overview of Danish immigrant into the program lineup. Ryland Penta, catered by the CLU food service, and novels, particularly those of Kristian a recent graduate of the University of entertainment led by Marilyn Molinari Ostergaard, written between 1890 and Washington who plans to continue grad- and Noomi Wennberg. ♦ 1930. uate studies, gave an excellent presen4

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ABBA GIRLZ

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Fagertun Returning toStina the Scandinavian Festival stage will be the ABBA Girlz Band from New York. The spectacular ABBA tribute band will perform twice daily, backed up by professional singers Aleta and Sonya Buckelew of Thousand Oaks. The Buckelew sisters will also have their own show singing pop songs from the five Nordic countries. ♦

STORYTELLERS of the NORTH

ANN-MARITA

Celebrated STINA FAGERTUN storyteller Stina Fagertun, a Sami who won Norway’s Best Storyteller award in 2011, lives in Tromsø. She will tell her tales and share the music of Arctic Norway near the Sami Encampment at the Scandinavian Festival

Appearing in the Viking Cruises Theater for the first time will be celebrated Norwegian singer Ann-Marita, who will offer traditional Scandinavian folk songs and her own popular hits

. Swedish pianist Magnus Mårtensson will perform his “Victor Borge style” routine, and also more serious classical music in Overton Hall.

MAGNUS MÅRTENSON

Ross Sutter to Emcee, Lead Maypole Dance Emcee for performances at the Children’s Theater in Kingsmen Park will be internationally-known Ross Sutter, who will also sing Scandinavian and other folk songs. He will also lead the traditional Maypole dancing.

‘TRUE THOMAS’

California-based storyteller of Nordic myths, folktales and sagas, Robert Seutter, aka True Thomas, will tell his “Men from the North” tales. He will hold forth near the Viking Encampment. ♦

‘BELIEVE IN THE STORY...’

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Viking Encampment Marks Decade at Scandinavian Festival

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eturning to the Scandinavian Festival for the 10th year is the Viking Encampment created by the Ravens of Odin, a professional education group focusing on the Scandinavian culture during the Viking Age. The authentic living history production represents a typical camp of Norse warrior/merchants as they traversed the waterways of Europe, according to Jaan Calderon, Ravens director .

Ravens of Odin Director Jaan Calderon with Tanya Nelson, left, and Cyndi Sandoval, right.

RAVENSofODIN bring history to life

Festival goers can stroll past the historically accurate tents, checking out the furniture, garb, weapons and artifacts that have been collected from world-renown artisans and crafts people to tell the story of the times. The group draws its name from the Norse myth description of Odin, the chief god, and the two ravens he sends forth into the world everyday to gather news.

Visitors are invited to interact with group members, who will assist them in trying on armor and holding replicas of Viking weapons. They will also be treated to carpentry, metal-working, weaving and spinning demonstrations, as well as examples of other skills needed to survive in the Viking Age.

‘ Emperor and the Nightingale’ The

GAMES & CRAFTS FOR KIDS Crafts for children will include sanding butter knives and decorating head wreaths. In the Sven and Ole Olympics, kids compete for medals in events including a relay, a three-legged race and a troll trot. Festival goers can try their hand at Dala horse croquet, play an ancient Viking game called Kubb.

Puppets take the stage for Children’s Theater This year's festival presents a Children's Theater for performances by community children's groups, and a puppet show of the Hans Christian Andersen story "The Emperor and the Nightingale” with Elizabeth Luce “pulling the strings.”

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Activities Abound for Children at the Scandinavian Festival free admission for kids under 8

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hortly after reduced to begthe gold rush 2014 Scandinavian American Hall of Fame ging to support her in the Yukon family. He learned by ERNST F. TONSING in 1896, three to be a tailor in Scandinavians found Stockholm, and, to themselves in Alaska and, together, they spearheaded escape poverty, took the money he earned to purchase the greatest gold rush in history. Their “luck” consisted passage to America, arriving in the Bay Area of Californot only of their find in 1898, but their mining experinia in 1886. ence, their business sense, and their cooperation with each other. Gold fever struck, and he joined a ship steaming north as a sailor. He “jumped ship” when it sent a shore By the early 20th century they had established the party to bring back fresh water. He met an Inuit man city of Nome, founded the Pioneer Mining Company who put him in the bottom of his boat, piled it high with that produced 20 millions of dollars in gold, and bepelts, and paddled right by his ship and on towards came benefactors not only of their home countries but Port Clarence. However, on the way, the boat stopped of their new Country. at the mouth of Dry Creek, where he “found color” (gold) in his pan, THREE ‘LUCKY SWEDES’ The first of the three, and he vowed to return. The three John Byrnteson (1871“Swedes” met and constructed a SPEARHEAD GREATEST 1959), was born in the rickety boat that brought them mining area of Artemark, GOLD RUSH IN HISTORY back to the Anvil Creek where Sweden, to a poor farmthey “struck it rich” Sept. 22, 1898. ing family. He came to America at 16 years of age, and settled in Michigan where he worked in copper and iron mines. He became a U.S. citizen, and joined an expeThey formed their Pioneer Mining Company and dition in 1898 to find coal on the east coast of the Nor- organized the extraction of gold from their claims. They ton Sound in the Bering Sea in Alaska. No coal was had to fight off claim jumpers who tried every means, found, but he had tried panning in the Snake River physical and legal, to deprive them of their rights. area, found traces of gold, and thought that he should (Their adventures were made into a novel by Rex return to the site to see how much else was there. Beach, The Spoilers, as well as a stage play and five movies, including The Spoilers in which John Wayne The second person, Jafet Lindeberg (1874-1962) played Lindeberg). Meanwhile, they discovered even was born in northern Norway at Baddeven. His father more gold on the beach upon which stands Nome towas from the mining valley of Norrbotn, Sweden. While day. they were not Sami, his family had some reindeer herding experience. Lindeberg was a bright student, and his Byrnteson later founded a home for sailors in San teacher made sure that he learned French, German, Francisco, and supported several charities in Chicago. Russian and English, all of which would be of use later. He returned to Sweden and contributed liberally to various charities there, including the construction of the Alaskan missionary Sheldon Jackson had become Ice Palace in Stockholm for the 1912 Olympic Games. concerned for the welfare of the Inuit (Eskimo) when Canadian and American fleets depleted the whales, Lindeberg stayed in Nome for most of the rest of his seals and walrus, and thought that herding reindeer years, building the water works that still supplies Nome would make a good source of protein. He hired a ship with fresh, clean water. He retired to San Francisco to bring the animals to Alaska. after managing the Pioneer Company in Nome for many years. Lindblom was an active partner in the Lindeberg signed on and when the ship sailed to Pioneer Mining Company, and finally retired to Siberia to purchase reindeer, the natives refused to sell Oakland, California, while supporting successful mining any animals to the expedition and chased them off. Re- ventures in California and Mexico. turning to Alaska, Lindeberg was released from his contract, and then thought that he might better occupy In San Francisco he built Ebenezer Lutheran his time looking for gold. Church, and the Swedish American Hall on Market Street. In Oakland, he built and operated the The third “Swede” was Erik O. Lindblom (1857Claremont Hotel, one of the most elegant hostelries of 1928), who was born in Dalarne, Sweden. His father the Bay Area. ♦ died when he was quite young, and his mother was Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation

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Norway. Some of these are nomadic, some semi-nomadic, and some live in and of towns. The “South Samis” of the middle of Sweden and Norway are the best known, and have newspapers, magazines, a radio station, and they can obBy ERNST F. TONSING tain higher education at the Sami Institute at the University of Umeå in SweThe sled in the Scandinavian Culturden. al Center at CLU was constructed by Today there are about 68,000 unasHans Torsten Olsson of Thousand similated Sami, about 2,000 in Russia, Oaks, and donated to the center by him 6,000 in Finland, 20,000 in Sweden, and Howard Rockstad. There it hangs from the ceiling. Torsten Olsson copied it from a Sami sled, called a kelkka, displayed at the Tromsø Museum, Norway, a museum with one of the most important Sami collections. The Sami (no longer called “Lapps,” since the Swedish word, lapp, means “patch,” and is a derogatory term), have inhabited the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia since the Ice Age. Their ancestors were hunters and fishers who left a record of their activities and devotion to their deities in rock carvings. The Roman historian, Tacitus, writing in A.D. 98, mentions the Fenni who and some 40,000 in Norway, a third live in Thule, and the Byzantine author, being semi-nomadic. The reindeer, or Procopius, in 555, believes that Thule is poro, is the animal most associated with Scandinavia, and its inhabitants are the Sami. Well adapted to arctic recalled Skridfinns, as does Paulus gions, their broad hooves enable reinDiaconus in ca. 750, who says that they deer to walk on snow and dig for moss, were hunters and skiers who also herd- and the hooves can spread out for soft ed animals resembling deer. ground. Both cows and bulls have Distinct from the other cultures of horns. Scandinavia, the Sami language, clothWhen reindeer were domesticated ing, handicraft, music (joik) and myths is not known, but many Sami depended are unique. The Sami groups, however, upon it for food, clothing, tools and are so different from each other that transportation. Nearly the entire animal those living in one region can underwas used, including the skins for stand the dialect of another only with clothes, boots and tents, the tendons difficulty. for sewing, the horns for tools, and the The “East Samis” live on the Kola intestines for the vitamins impossible to Peninsula in Russia and northeastern get during much of the year. Finland. The “North Samis” inhabit The herding Sami migrated from northeastern Finland and the mountains settlement to settlement, following the and forests of northern Sweden and semi-domesticated animals. They lived

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in tents or turf houses, but after 1800, they had wood houses. Today, there is a revival of the Sami culture, and the language, the gákti (the colorful clothing), and attractive handicrafts are again thriving. They now have a national anthem and a flag based upon the design from a shaman’s drum, with a red circle for the sun and a blue one for the moon. Reindeer are still herded, but with snowmobiles. The world has received many things

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LOFTY PARKING SPACE

from the Sami, including the word thule, and the big guy in a red suit and stocking cap who rides a Sami sled pulled by reindeer to deliver presents to children in America, in Australia (where his “sled” is a surfboard) and even in Japan, where there is hardly a family that does not celebrate a visit from the Nordic denizen each December. That’s a lot of territory to cover for an old Sami shaman and his magical sled! ♦ CLU Professor Emeritus Tonsing has created a colorful and informative catalog of major items in the Scandinavian Center collection. It can be perused in the Center. He will speak at the Scandinavian Festival at 2 p.m. both days in Overton Hall. The title of his illustrated talk is, “Was St. Patrick Really Scandinavian?”

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fter a year of fascinating Brown Bag Lunch speakers ,the 2013-14 year is moving along, with the following programs scheduled. Special programming commemorating Norway’s 200th anniversary of the signing of its constitution are also being planned. April 9 Sue Corey Everson, CLU Prof. of English, retired; “Elisabeth Fedde, A Norwegian Immigrant and Medical Pioneer in America” April 16 Ronald Nystrom, Thousand Oaks Volunteer Police Officer – Purpose, experiences, and advice.

SUMMER SESSION

‘COFFEE AND CONVERSATION’

Wednesdays during June, July and August convert to “Coffee and Conversation”—minus the regular program. These weekly sessions offer visiting and sharing opportunities from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for visitors to the Scandinavian Center. ♦

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10 a.m. Lace Making Group – Vibs Clausen 3 p.m. Library Work Team – Lana Lundin 5:30 p.m. Swedish Lang. Class – Lana Lundin Wed. 10 am Genealogy Assistance – Jerry Baldwin (2nd/4th each month) Noon Brown Bag Lunch Program 3:15 pm “Little Vikings” Class – Marilyn Molinari and others (2x month) 7 pm Norwegian Language Class (adults) – Alexandra Passolt MONTHLY 4th Mon. 2nd Thurs.

10 am Rosemaling – Bonnie Braaten 7 pm [Norseman Lodge, Sons of Norway, Board of Directors ]

3rd Thurs. 1 pm Genealogy – Lynda Jones 4th Thurs. 1 pm Book Group – Lana Lundin Thurs. 6 or 7 pm CLU Scandinavian Students Sarah Peterson, pres.

For additional information, contact Scan Center Co-Director Anita Londgren 805-241-0391 or [email protected].

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N ORDIC SPIRIT NEWS One of the largest Nordic festivals in the western USA, Scanfest ‘14 is an exciting twoday outdoor event in Kingsmen Park at CLU. The festival celebrates the food, crafts, arts, traditions and current life of the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the Saami people from the Arctic regions of Scandinavia. Superb Nordic activities, entertainment, shopping, foods and games are available for all ages.

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SCANDINAVIAN FESTIVAL April 5 & 6 2014 10 PM to 5 PM California Lutheran University

KIDS UNDER 8 FREE