Giants of the Earth Heritage Center
Helping you honor the Giants in your family whose principle-centered lives left a true heritage. Find us at www.trueheritage.org- Welcome
- Oral Histories
- Example: Enger History
- Get your senior videotaped
- Media Preservation Funding Needs
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- Vivian Omodt Brevig
- Runic Cryptography with Howard Burtness
- Almore & Vivien Mathsen
- Nowlands on Ireland’s Vikings
- Dale Droivold
- Ivan Dahle
- Glasrudag 2012 Documentary
- Spring Grove Teachers
- WWII Vets Merv Dvergsten & Norman Storlie
- Story Telling Class 2011
- Flying Farmers
- Old 8mm footage
- Family Bibles with Geneva
- Lee & Louise Sundet
- Genetic Ancestry
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- Find Relatives
- Spring Grove Calendar
- Genealogy
- Esoterica
- Access Password Protected Documents
- Serving our Corporate Masters
- Scott Wolter on the Kensington Runestone
- Healing the brokenness of our people
- Honey coated wormwood
- Deconstructing Myths
- Family Fabletalk
- Greenland Vikings’ Extinction
- Private Caves
- WWII Norwegian Resistance Stories
- Xedoc Sadu
- Quadrangulating Parables
- Phenomenological Judo
- Geopolitical Subversion 101
- The Double Sealed Book
- Who is 718?
- What is what it is?
- Ancient Recipe Reveals Fountain of…
- Public Discourse
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- Ola&Per
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Browsing Posts in 4. Intellectual Heritage
“Let me therefore beg of thee not to trust to the opinion of any man concerning these things…search the scriptures thyself…if thou desirest to find the truth. Which if thou shalt at length attain thou wilt value above all other treasures…search into these scriptures which God hath given to be a guide…and be not discouraged [...]
Below is the PDF file of the Fine and Folk Arts School and Events Catalog: Giants_FolkArtSchool_FALL_FINAL Or visit our facebook page to see the most up to date info, along with pictures of the classes, etc.: Giants of the Earth Heritage Center Facebook Events Page. We also recommend that you check out our Spring Grove [...]
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 [...]
Here is the news release in case you do not want to open the attachments FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karin Holt, Foundation Director, scholarships@lakselaget.org Lakselaget Offers Scholarships to Minnesota and Norwegian Women Application Deadline: March 1, 2011 Minnesota-based Lakselaget will be offering scholarships for the eighth time in its nine-year history. The application deadline is [...]
Our genetic genealogists encourage you to take part in our Spring Grove area ancestral genetic study, by ordering your own genetic kit at www.23andme.com or by joining Giants of the Earth Heritage Center at a Giant ($250) level (you get the kit for free at this level and also assistance in understanding your results). We [...]
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 [...]
Giants of the Earth Heritage Center has just been notified that it has been rewarded two giant grants. The first grant is a pledge to match the first $25,000 given by donors to Giants Heritage by Feb 14, 2011, to fund heritage programming (more info later). The second grant, from Google, is designed to help promote our website and our mission of [...]
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 [...]
We are happy to pass along the following announcement from Giants of the Earth King Olav member Phillip Odden and his wife, and Harley Refsal, of Luther College, concerning their Wood Carving Classes in 2011 in Baronett, WI. Keep in mind also that Giants of the Earth is planning on offering Fine Art/Folk Art classes in Spring Grove in the [...]
Public radio covered genetic testing on December 22, 2010. The MP3 of the program is attached for your listening pleasure. Simply click on the link and it will start playing. Public Radio on Personal Genetic Testing Giants of the Earth Heritage members are leading the way in personal genomic testing. We wanted to give a reminder to readers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Envisioning an Interactive, Personalized Heritage Center About a year ago, Giants of the Earth Heritage Center purchased the Historic Ballard House for use as the Heritage Center. The renovation of the Ballard House into the Heritage Center took part in several phases. Phase 1 involved primarily preparing the main room for the visit of the [...]
Norwegian linguistic professors will visit Spring Grove to study the evolution of the Norwegian language within our community.
