Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:58:15 -0500 Message-ID: <CAOqvhe1f-rjR3APGLo1L+w3SX0UT6V9s3_S4xZN88P9rm=aNDA@mail.gmail.com> Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Taste Of Norway & Lost Arts Fair and Chamber Fall Craft And Gift Show slated for Oct. 6 at Iola Historical Society From: "onthelake2 tds.net" <onthelake2@tds.net>
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*3rd Annual Taste of Norway/Lost Arts Fair and Chamber of Commerce annual
Fall Craft & Gift Show on Oct. 6 at Iola Historical Society*
Iola, WI: Watch Norwegian pastry making, lefse making, and Lost Arts
artisans ply their crafts at the 3rd Annual Taste of Norway & Lost Arts
Fair to be held Saturday, October 6, at the Iola Historical Society at 210
Depot Street just west of downtown Iola. The event is free, and runs from
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the society’s Historic Iola Village complex.
Taste of Norway provides visitors with tastes of Norwegian pastries as well
as demonstrations on how they are made. Members of the Northland Church
will explain and demonstrate how to make pastries ranging from lefse, fry
cakes, krumkaka, sandbakkles, rosettes, and fattigman.
Martha Cook and Bob Stamstad will be continuously demonstrating how to make
lefse, while the other cooking demonstrations will be staggered over the
timeframe of 11:00 a.m. until to 2:00 p.m. The pastries, lefse, fry cakes,
cookie, and other homemade baked goods will be available to purchase, while
supplies last, and can be purchased in dozen and half-dozen increments.
“Taste Of Pastry” samples with coffee will also be available for $1.50.
*Lost Arts Fair*
The popular Lost Arts Fair aspect of the event brings artisans to the
Village showing how things used to be done, ranging from rosemaling (Linda
Kasten), blacksmithing (Clinte Danke, a.k.a. Rusty Anvil), yarn spinning
(Claire Nordness), jewelry making (Patty Kirschner), sewing (Elizabeth
Yeder), rugweaving (Gerry Johnson), beekeeping (Leonard Haroldson), among
other lost arts.
*Children’s activities*
Children’s activities will take place in the replica vintage one-room
schoolhouse, sponsored by the Sons Of Norway’s Norskeland Lodge 5-580 of
Iola. Dubbed “The Troll’s Workshop,” children will make crafts (a Vi
king
ship and troll masks), listen to Norwegian tales, sing Norwegian songs, and
decorate and eat a cupcake treat. The children’s program lasts 45 minutes
to an hour. Each new session starts on the hour, starting at 10:00 am.
In addition, the Sons Of Norway will have a hands-on area featuring vintage
tools such as ice hooks; hay fork; rail spikes; potato and corn planters;
feed basket for horses, a kid’s buggy, saws, and other implements used by
early settlers.
*Chamber’s annual Fall Gift & Craft Show*
The Iola-Scandinavia Chamber of Commerce’s 14th Annual Fall Gift & Craft
Show includes vendors selling tasty home-made caramels, framed artwork
and pictures, unique jewelry, crafts, baby blankets, ponchos, aprons,
kitchen towels, etched glassware, totes, bags, purses, original design
natural-colored wood, handcrafted pins, magnets, standing sculptures, and
Victorian soaps, just to name a few of the items. At press time, there
were still a few open vendor spots. Contact Mary Schwartz at
mary@iolaoldcarshow.com for availability.
There will be a raffle for a handmade quilted wall hanging, called “Depot
,”
made by Caroline Adams. Raffle tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5. Proceeds go
to the restoration of the historic Iola & Northern Railroad depot, which is
closed during renovation. The quilt will be on display at the First
National and Premier banks in Iola. Tickets are available at the banks, at
the Millstone At Iola Mills, from Historical Society members, and at the
Taste of Norway event. The drawing will take place at 2:45 p.m. at the end
of the event.
Iola Historical Society docents will provide information on the historic
buildings on the grounds, which include the Helvetia Town Hall, a replica
of Iola’s first fire station, one-room schoolhouse replica, a circa-1920s
log cabin, used locally by hunters, and a vintage caboose. The society’s
museum will also be open during the event. It contains native American
artifacts, vintage Norwegian immigrant items, the Stromberg violin
collection, and many other items of local history, including one of Lee
Nelson, Iola’s “Humble Hero.” Nelson was a B-17 bomber pilot who flew
missions over France and Germany in World War II, and his autobiography
published by the Iola Historical Society is available for sale at the
event, along with other local history books.
David Drake, of Milwaukee, will be entertaining festival goers by playing
stringed instruments and singing 18th-century folk songs about Wisconsin
logging camps and other historic topics, including a few Norwegian folk
songs. He will be dressed in vintage pioneer costume.
Gary Larson will be showing a video, “A Trip Through Norwegian History,
” in
the Society’s museum building at 210 Depot Street. The film runs
approximately an hour, and will be shown continuously starting at 10:00
a.m., restarting on the hour.
The Iola Lions will be holding a brat fry, which includes their famous Iola
Lions Jumbo Hot Dog, with an option to have it placed in lefse rather than
a bun; bratwurst and cheddarwurst. The Lions will also be collecting used
eyeglasses and hearing aids with a donation drop-box located at their booth
.
*Free fire extinguisher check*
The Iola & Rural Fire Department will be holding its annual free fire
extinguisher check, usually held at the Iola Fire Department, at the 1901
vintage Iola fire station at the Iola Historic Village. Department
personnel will check and service personal handheld fire extinguishers to be
sure they are current for use and insurance purposes. The replica station
contains Iola’s first three pieces of firefighting apparatus, dating from
1913, 1926, and 1942. The department will also have one of their current
fire trucks on hand.
Vintage farm tractors owned by members of the 2-Cylinder Tractor Club will
also be on display.
For more information on the event, go to www.iolahistoricalsociety,
www.ischamber.com or visit the Iola-Scandinavia Chamber of Commerce on
Facebook.
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