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Monday, September 23 through Monday, October 28
2024 Fall Culture Classes (Mondays from 9/23/24 through 10/28/24) (Culture Class)
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Canyon Lake Activity Center, 2900 Canyon Lake Dr., Rapid City
See description of classes offered, see Tab "Culture Classes" on Home Page (to the left). |
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Friday, October 11
Annual Torsk Dinner (Monthly Social)
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Canyon Lake Senior Activity Center, 2900 Canyon Lake Dr, Rapid City, SD
(Ticket prepay form available on our Home page) - Members please bring desserts.
Entertainment: James and Frank Van Nuys (The Bower Family Band): We are thrilled to have as our entertainment for our annual Torsk Dinner on Friday, October 11, James and Frank Van Nuys. They will be presenting a program about their ancestors, the Bower Family. Their family has a connection to South Dakota and the Black Hills area. The Bower Family band was so popular in the day that the Walt Disney company made a movie about their family. The production was called “The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band.” The all-star cast of Hollywood notables excited crowds especially when it opened in South Dakota in 1968. In fact, the movie had two premiers—one at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and the other in Rapid City, for it was a uniquely South Dakota story. The movie was based on the real-life experiences of the Bower Family Band, composed of seven of the eight children of John Calvin (Cal") Bower and Keziah Bower of Vermillion, South Dakota.
Soon after giving its first concert there in 1884, the family migrated to the Black Hills when it achieved a measure of local fame during the 1880s and 1890s. Nearly sixty years later, the band's youngest member, Laura Bower VanNuys, recorded her family's story in a book entitled “The Family Band: From the Missouri to the Black Hills, 1881-1900” (University of Nebraska Press, 1961). She had been encouraged to preserve their family stories by her son, Maxwell Van Nuys, who also harbored "a faint hope that such a book might appeal to Walt Disney as the basis for a musical." And, of course, that book is what inspired the Walt Disney movie.
We hope you will come and enjoy the history and family music that the “current generation” of the Bower Family plays. The Torsk Dinner tickets are now available, so please sign up as soon as possible so that we can have a count for the cater for this wonderful dinner and entertainment. You won’t want miss out on this event.
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Saturday, November 9
Deadline for pre-orders for rosettes, krumkake, and lefse (Events of Interest)
8:00 am
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Saturday, November 16
Work days making rosettes and krumkake for Lille Norge Fest (Events of Interest)
8:00 am 2900 Canyon Lake Dr., Rapid City, SD - Canyon Lake Activity Center
Saturday: 11/16/24 - Time: 8:00 a.m. start
In order to make our Lille Norge Fest a success, we will need as many members as possible to help make the rosettes and krumkake. If you have never made these Norwegian treats, there will be persons available to show you how. |
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Saturday, November 23
Lille Norge Fest (Events of Interest)
8:00 am to 12:00 pm 2900 Canyon Lake Dr., Rapid City, SD - Canyon Lake Activity Center
Welcome to our annual Norwegian Festival. Enjoy our famous bake sale as well as lefse, krumkake, and rosettes. Also enjoy a morning of Norwegian crafts being demonstrated and available for purchase through various vendors. We will have our usual food line with steamburgers, polse, pie/bars, coffee, and other Norwegian delights. You can sit back and enjoy the entertainment while you enjoy our Norwegian festival. |
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Friday, December 20
December 20 Social (Monthly Social)
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Canyon Lake Senior Activity Center, 2900 Canyon Lake Dr, Rapid City, SD
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Friday, January 24, 2025
200 Years of Migration - Let's start our migration from Norway! (Monthly Social)
6:30 pm 2900 Canyon Lake Dr., Rapid City, SD - Canyon Lake Activity Center
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Friday, February 28, 2025
200 Years of Migration - Emigrating from Norway - Trials and Tribulations (Monthly Social)
6:30 pm 2900 Canyon Lake Dr., Rapid City, SD - Canyon Lake Activity Center
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Friday, April 25, 2025
200 Years of Migration - Jump on Board! - Railroads Ancestors Traveled (Monthly Social)
6:30 pm 2900 Canyon Lake Dr., Rapid City, SD - Canyon Lake Activity Center
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