If you don’t have a PDF plugin for this browser you can click here to download the PDF file.
Reposted from various sources: Garrison Keillor Tue, September 27 @Luther College Center for Faith and Life Garrison Keillor, the host and writer of the acclaimed “A Prairie Home Companion” public radio program, will highlight the Luther College Center Stage Series of professional performing arts events for 2011-12. Keillor will take the CSS stage in the [...]
Guys, Be Smart for your Sweetheart! There’s a cool Valentines Party at the Ballard House, 163 West Main Street in Spring Grove for Singles and Sweethearts on Saturday, February 12 beginning at 3:30 PM. Make reservations in advance by calling 563.419.0986 and save $5. Enjoy heritage soups, hearty appetizers, and fabulous desserts like crazy cool [...]
Gals and Dolls in Spring Grove It’s Tea Time in February Come to experience tea at the Ballard House in Spring Grove after school on Friday, February 11 from 3:30-4:45 PM. Served in our elegant Heritage Center’s Grand Room, this after-school 75 minute event will introduce girls of all ages to the Afternoon [...]
Want to honor your immigrant ancestors? Put their names prominently in gold on the beautiful walls in the Giants of the Earth Heritage Hall of Giants. The names will be placed on the walls of the side of Spring Grove in which your immigrants ancestors lived. For example, Ole Nerstad and Kjettle Garnaas lived west of [...]
Dr. Storlie and Dr. Gary Olson explain how Giants of the Earth Heritage Center will work to preserve Norwegian culture, and, more importantly, promote conscious cultural stewardship.
Hootenanny at the Cinema. On Wednesdays come to Hootenanny. It begins at approximately 3:30 so school children can attend. Cost is $1.00 for each child, and also $1.00 for adults not accompanied by a child. Adults with a child get in free. Bob Bovee and Gail Heil, and Rachel Grippen Storlie are the instructors. This [...]
Barneløpet Children’s Ski/Walk Event at Decorah Prairie DECORAH, Iowa — Help your kids shake off their cabin fever at the twelfth annual Barneløpet Saturday, February 5, at 10:00 a.m. The event is sponsored by Sons of Norway Valdres Lodge #503 in Decorah, Iowa, Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge #376 in Lanesboro, Minnesota, and Sons of [...]
Want to donate to Giants of the Earth Heritage Center. We have two easy options. Note that donations over $2,500 will receive special honors in our Hall of Giants in Spring Grove. There is an Honored Immigrants Wall on the first floor. Each donation of $2,500 allows the name of an immigrant from one’s family to be written [...]
Giants of the Earth will be hosting a Christmas party for children and families Sunday December 12th from 1-3pm at the Ballard House on Main Street in Spring Grove, Minnesota. We will be creating ornaments and caroling around the tree like they do in Norway. The kids can make ornaments to put on the tree [...]
One of the hallmarks of a community that maintains sustainable stewardship practices is that the community is made up of a higher than average number of individuals who make conscious rational decisions. Community stewardship is thus advanced when members of the community become conscious of their innate Fixed Action Patterns, or FAPs. Fixed action patterns are those patterns which [...]
Think about the role of emotional intelligence as you read the diaries and letters of your ancestors. Feel free to comment or create your own posts to share letters, diary excerpts, or memories here which particularly illustrate how this strength helped our ancestors accomplish their goals. Emotional intelligence From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Emotional intelligence (EI [...]