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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
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Browsing Posts in 5. Stewardship Heritage
Dear Valued Giants of the Earth Heritage Center Members, We hope you all had a great Christmas and that your New Year’s is spent joyfully with friends and family. Since it is that time of the year when we reflect and resolve, we wanted to share with you some of our accomplishments and goals. With [...]
“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 [...]
“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts…” Constitution of the United States, Section 8 (emphasis added) Online advertisers know how to monitor the online pulse of internet users in any given population. We can see the keywords that anonymous people living in any particular region in the US are typing into Google, Bing, etc. In [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Ballard House Magically Transfigured into Giants of the Earth Heritage Center Giants of the Earth Heritage Center members celebrated the tranformation of the large room in the Ballard House into Giants’ Hall with a great gala dinner on Oct. 30 honoring the beloved Spring Grove genealogist Georgia Rosendahl. At $65 a plate, tickets were sold out a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Preliminary work on wall of Giants Hall of Heritage Center First floor of Heritage Center with dinner tables The 3d mockup of the 1st floor of the Heritage Center is nearly completed, although I will still have to change the wall decor and make some other changes. This 3d model will allow us to try out different arrangements [...]
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 [...]
