The cod soup class has been moved back one week.
The cod soup class has been moved back one week.
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.
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 [...]
Where? www.23andme.com Updated on Sept 1, 2011. Giants of the Earth Heritage Center is happily using 23andme genomic test kits to conduct ancestry research for the Houston/Fillmore /Winneshiek/Allamakee County area. These are a vastly improved version of the same tests promoted by Oprah and Louis Gates recently. In the past, we have paid nearly $500 for the majority of the kits that we gave out [...]
Norwegian Roar Moe speaks at Spring Grove Cinema Nov 18 at 715 pm v2 poster Roar Moe, teacher, historian, sailor .. the last husmann? November 18th, Thursday night at 7:15 Spring Grove Cinema shares with the public his concerns and successes – Here in SE MINN, NE IA, SW WI—Spring Grove and Norwegian Ridge, Minnesota [...]
Dr. John and Dr. Patty Storlie recently received word that they were officially accepted into the Harvard Personal Genome Project, which means that their genomes will be completely sequenced, a $20,000 value, for free. “This not only is an exciting opportunity for us, but it will increase the value of all those genetic results already [...]
“…In the course of a long peace, the people relax into sloth and indolence…”-Manners of the Germanic Tribes by Cornelius Tacitus (end of 1st Century CE) Perhaps the secret to health is recognizing the reciprocal duty and bonds between oneself and ones countrymen–and endeavoring to maintain the health reserves you could potentially need to pull [...]
The ultimate purpose of genealogy is to promote an understanding of what it means to leave a healthy legacy so that we who live in the present may behave adaptively. We leave a healthy legacy when we are good stewards of our physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and material resources. Aside from our massive debt, the [...]