Mai Bokprat: The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens - Wednesday, 28 Mai 20-2115
28 Mai, Wednesday, 8:00-9:15 ET. "Bokprat: The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens" with Barbara Sjoholm.
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a. Join Vesterheim for a FREE online Zoom webinar, “Bokprat: The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens" with Barbara Sjoholm.
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b. Register online on vesterheim.org/folk-art-school/. Click on “Free events”. Please, also, register on the ScandiClub website so that we know who is from the Club (or is related to the Club).
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c. This experience is sponsored by the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School, which is a partner with Crossings 200, celebrating 2025- the 200th anniversary of Norwegians emigrating to the US.
Dr. Maren Johnson, Luther College's Associate Professor of Nordic Studies and Torgerson Center for Nordic Studies Director, facilitates a monthly bokprat, discussing Scandinavian authors and Scandinavian life. Join us in May for a discussion of The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens with author Barbara Sjoholm.
Norwegian-born Dagny Bergland and her husband arrive in turn-of-the century Port Townsend, Washington, after years of sailing their merchant ship around the globe. They’re just in time for the Yukon Gold Rush and the arrival of a group of Sámi reindeer herders from Lapland on their way to Alaska to supply the ill-prepared miners. Dagny’s journals, beginning in 1897, tell a fresh and riveting history of the Pacific Northwest and its immigrants. A novel of friendship, love, loss, and motherhood, The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens is the story of a remarkable woman who learns to steer a new course in a new country.
