Past Lodge Events

Bus Trips

• A Norwegian accordion band concert in Lakeville
• The Syttende Mai stage show in Hanska (2006, 2004, 2003)
• Nordic Fest in Decorah, Iowa
• The play “Don’t Hug Me” in Minneapolis
• A Norwegian girls' choir concert in Northfield.
• Bus trip to Norway Day at Minnehaha Park, MPLS

We Have Hosted

• First District Sons of Norway Bowling Jamboree
• Valle Norway music school student concert
• Lin-Hans-Rud dancers from Hanska at the Ambassador banquet in 2003 and at a picnic in 2004.

Some Of Our Special Speakers Have Been :

• Dr Joan Buckley , presented "Norwegian-American Humor" in Rosendahl's Han Ola og Han Per which appeared in the Decorah-Posten from 1918 to 1935 and then reprinted for many years.
• Roland Thorstensson, an authority on the Sami’s, the indigenous people of Scandinavia
• Reidar Dittmann, who spoke about his experiences in a concentration camp and in the Resistance Movement during World War II at one program and about growing up in Norway at our Membership Banquet in 2004
• Debra Seitz, who made the 72-day trip to Norway in a replica of a Viking ship that had been built by her father in a warehouse in Minnesota
• Dr. William Halvorson, a national expert on Edvard Grieg
• Dr Odell Bjerkness, who has done extensive research on the Vikings
• His Excellency Knut Vollebaek, Ambassador from Norway to the United States. (Co-hosted with the Language Department at MSU.) We had over 40 display tables representing many kinds of crafts, cultures, foods and more at a Heritage and Cultural Fair the weekend of September 12th and 13^th in 2003. He was the featured guest speaker at MSU and Bethany Lutheran College and at a reception at Bethany Lutheran College and at a banquet at MSU that same weekend. (October 2003)