Today we celebrated the Swedish heritage of our town--Port Wing--with the annual Harvest Dinner, a fundraiser for our Heritage Museum. Tonight after the clean-up, Soney Rockenbach, our museum curator, told us how the idea for this dinner began. Back in the '30's a group of local women started a club called the Civic Club. They met regularly and contributed to the life of the community with events and projects to promote the town. One of those events was a Harvest Dinner which was designed to preserve the Swedish food traditions of the area families. The club members all served the dinner wearing aprons and scarves of blue and yellow, and the hall was decorated with autumn colors.
That was then and due to time and age of the membership, the Civic Club is no longer operating. But when Soney and her people started up our new museum back in 2001, they decided to revive the Harvest Dinner with the same menu, the same decorating scheme, and even the same apron style, and that's the event we celebrated today.
Fortunately or unfortunately we had such a record crowd that I didn't get many pictures, and the ones I did get are blurry. But it was a big success--Swedish potato sausage (Potatiskorv), turkey and dressing, ham, pickled herring (Inlagd sill), Swedish meatballs (Svenska köttbullar), rice pudding, pickled beets, lots of salads and desserts. All delicious!
The next big dinner is the First Lutheran Church Lutefisk Supper on the second Saturday in December. Lutefisk, lefse and Swedish meatballs. Get it on your calendar now!
2 comments:
Så trevligt att ni håller på traditionerná! Hoppas det smakade gott!
Ingabritt - Everything tasted great! I wish you could come to one of our celebrations sometime!
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