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SUMMARY:Sailing into Spring Grove: A Giants Musical Celebration of 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special springtime dinner event to mark major 2025 milestones and the “Giants of the Earth” that came from many lands to settle and build our Spring Grove region. \nFeaturing music by the Luren Singing Society and soloist Rachel Storlie.  \n2025 presents two major milestones to celebrate in Spring Grove: \n\n50 years of Dr. David Judisch leading Luren\n200 years of Norwegian immigration to America\n\n$75 General\n$65 Members of Giants of the Earth Heritage Center \n\n\n \nPowered by \n\nOr submit check to Giants of the Earth Heritage Center\, 163 Main St\, Spring Grove\, MN 55974 \nPlease provide meal choices and accommodation needs here. \nMenu\nBeef sirloin or salmon\nRice pilaf\nAsparagus\nCorn\nShortcake & berries \nSchedule\n6:00pm Event start (5:00pm Cocktail hour)\n6:15pm Luren concert\n7:15pm Dinner served\n8:00pm Bicentennial program\n8:30pm Honoring Judisch \nSponsorship opportunities\nTable sponsor – $1\,000\nIncludes:\n8 dinner tickets\nPremium table placement\n2 bottles of wine\nFull page ad in the souvenir program\nContact Executive Director Joseph Grødahl at 952-994-7086 or jgrodahl@giantsoftheearth.org \nSouvenir program\nFull page sponsor ad– $100\nHalf page – $60\nQuarter page – $35
URL:https://giantsoftheearth.org/event/sailing-into-spring-grove-a-giants-musical-celebration-of-2025/
LOCATION:Fest Building\, 110 N Division Ave\, Spring Grove\, MN\, 55974\, United States
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SUMMARY:Unstoppable: Norwegian Pioneers Educate Their Daughters
DESCRIPTION:Unstoppable: Norwegian Pioneers Educate Their Daughters\nA Presentation by Gracia Grindal\nWhen: Sunday\, April 6\nTime: 12:30pm\nWhere: Giants of the Earth Heritage Center\n\nPart of a weekend of celebrations for “Crossings 200”\, the Bicentennial of Norwegian-American Immigration\, Giants is honored to welcome Gracia Grindal back to Spring Grove to present on the topic of one of her many books\, Unstoppable: Norwegian Pioneers Educate Their Daughters. Gracia is a theologian\, historian\, and retired professor from Luther Seminary.\n\nVisitors are welcome to bring a dish to share for a potluck lunch prior to the talk.\n\nAbout the Book:\n\nWhen Lutheran church leaders came from Norway in the middle of the nineteenth century\, educational plans for each gender were based on deeply held beliefs about what a man was and what a woman was. Teenage boys were to be educated at a school away from home–Luther College for those in the Norwegian Synod. Girls were to be educated in the parlors of an aunt or close friends of her parents. At the time they immigrated\, how to educate their children had been central to the cultural debates of their day. Those arguments lived on in this country while the Norwegian Synod pastors were deciding how to build such institutions for their children. Now they lived not only in a new land and culture\, but also in a new era when the role of women was changing.\n\n                    \n\nAbout Gracia:\n\nGracia Grindal was born in Powers Lake\, North Dakota and lived for three years in Tioga where her father was a pastor in the Lutheran Free Church parish there. Growing up in the parsonage she learned the hymnody of the Lutheran church\, especially the Scandinavian tradition\, and of the entire Christian church. The family moved to Rugby\, North Dakota\, then Salem\, Oregon. She graduated from Augsburg College in Minneapolis with a BA in history and English. She then earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Arkansas. After which she became a teacher of English and Creative Writing at Luther College. In 1984 after earning an MA in History and Systematics at Luther Seminary\, she was called to teach Rhetoric in the homiletics dept at Luther Seminary where she taught until 2013. Since her retirement she has continued writing biographies of Norwegian American immigrant women\, hymns and poetry.
URL:https://giantsoftheearth.org/event/unstoppable-norwegian-pioneers-educate-their-daughters/
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SUMMARY:Beer Choir
DESCRIPTION:When: April 11\, 2025 \nTime: 6pm-7:30pm \nWhere: Giants of the Earth Heritage Center 163 W Main St\, Spring Grove\, MN 55974
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