admin | May/ 30/ 2020 | 0
Written by Laurie Kay Sommers, former project manager, Preserve Nordic Churches Project 1918. It was a time eerily like our own—overwhelmed hospitals, people wearing masks, churches, schools and businesses shuttered. A virus for which there was no cure
admin | Jan/ 16/ 2020 | 0
Compiled by Laurie K. Sommers, Preserve Nordic Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019, based on emails by Asta Twedt and shared with her permission There is a lovely land In Minnesota’s forests Where Danes have taken a stand: Have planted
admin | Jan/ 15/ 2020 | 0
Written by Laurie K. Sommers, Preserve Nordic Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019 It was pure serendipity. Elmer A. Forsberg—head of the Department of Drawing, Painting. and Illustration at Chicago’s Art Institute, and Consul of Finland for the Midwest—was teaching a
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Written by Laurie K. Sommers, Preserve Nordic Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019 The congregation of Augustana Lutheran Church in Sioux City, Iowa, was grateful. It was 1919. World War 1 was finally over, and the young people of the church
admin | Jan/ 8/ 2020 | 0
For more than three decades now, the church on the prairie just west of Rugby, North Dakota has sat silent and vacant, its proud gray steeple belying the toll that weather and neglect has taken on the clapboard siding and
admin | Jan/ 3/ 2020 | 0
Written by Laurie K. Sommers, Preserve Nordic Heritage Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019 I was chatting by phone with the pastor of Savo Evangelical Lutheran Church outside Frederick, South Dakota as part of the Preserve Nordic Heritage Churches Project when
admin | Jan/ 3/ 2020 | 0
Written by Laurie K. Sommers, Preserve Nordic Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019 We all have a sacred place that warms our heart and fills our memory with the spirits of those who have gone before. It may not be the
