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Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 18. júní 2004 • 3
‘Reboot your roots’
in Fargo and Moorhead
The 27th Annual Scandinavian
Hjemkomst Festival is about to kick off
in Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN. The
festival runs June 25 to 27.
Claudia Pratt is Festival Director,
and the only staff member. “It’s pretty
much an all-volunteer group,” she says.
“We have a core group of about 50 peo-
ple who meet monthly throughout the
year to plan and prepare for it.” During
the festival weekend, that number
swells to approximately 500.
The Hjemkomst, which has tradi-
tionally been held the last full weekend
in June, is link'ed to midsummer cele-
brations in the Scandinavian countries.
“It’s an opportunity to get everyone
together and eelebrate who they are,”
says Claudia, who grew up attending
and volunteering at the festival.
While every year features events,
food and entertainment celebrating all
the Scandinavian cultures, each year
one culture is highlighted. This year the
spotlight is on Finland.
Pratt says the organizing starts as
much as a year and a half in advance.
This April she attended the Icelandic
National League Convention in prepa-
ration for next year’s Hjemkomst, when
the spotlight will be on Iceland.
“There’s this very strong identity
that is connected to these gatherings,”
she says. “And that’s really what this is
all about — getting everybody together
PHOTO: MIKKEL PATES
Join in the Swedish Midsommar
Dance at the 27th Annual Scandina-
vian Hjemkomst Festival.
to celebrate who they are, and to meet
and greet, and sometimes it’s to learn
about who they are, too, and their her-
itage. Sometimes it’s ‘rebooting their
roots.’ It’s a time when they can feel
good about who they are.”
For more information on the Scan-
dinavian Hjemkomst Festival, call
(218) 299-5452, orvisit www.scandina-
vianhjemkomstfestival.org.
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐBJARTSSON
Every opportunity
used to subscribe
Recently Lögberg-Heimskringlci
was introduced to interested groups of
people in Utah in the United States.
This issue is devoted to the Icelandic
settlement in Utah,‘ the word spread
around, and as a result, the paper got
quite a lot of new subscribers.
Icelanders first settled in Utah in
1855. That was the first permanent Ice-
landic settlement in North America and
its 150th anniversary will be celebrated
next year in June.
The descendants of the first settlers
are proud of their heritage. They use
every opportunity to honour the mem-
ory of the settlers, and on Mernorial
Day, people of Icelandic descent are
very visible in the graveyard in Spanish
Fork. This year many of them spotted
the editor of Lögberg-Heimskringla,
took the opportunity to subscribe to the
paper.
PHOTO: STEINÞÓR GUÐÐJARTSSON
Judith Arnason, Don Martin, Kathy
Hastie, and Kathy Arnason.
Don Martin
and Kathy
Hastie
awarded
Gimli artists Don Martin and
Kathy Hastie are the first recipients of
the Prairie Ocean Centre for the Arts’
Lunar Award.
The Prairie Ocean Centre for the
Arts at the Pelican Beach Country
Club House, just north of Gimli,
launched the opening for the summer
season June 10 and presented the
Lunar Award for the first time.
Directors Judith Arnason and
Kathy Arnason said that Martin and
Hastie had contributed and excelled in
artistic form in the region, and were
therefore selected as the first recipi-
ents.
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