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Summer 2010 • Vol America Letter The Danish Immigrant Museum ® AN INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CENTER summer 2010 • Vol. XXiii, no. 2 2212 WashinGTon sTreeT • elk horn, ioWa 51531 • 712-764-7001 • www.danishmuseum.org Across Oceans, Across Time, Across Generations: Celebrating the Seventieth Birthday of H.M. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark Director’s Corner Excitement is building that will be a living tribute contributions have fallen. as The Danish Immigrant to this important Danish At the time I write this, unrestricted gifting is down Museum anticipates American. The park will attract an additional by over $60,000 from last hosting the National Danish traveling public interested year. This makes planning Performance Team on the in horticulture. for the future diffi cult. American leg of their 2010- What programs can we We have received a develop to better serve our 2011 World Tour. This generous pledge from membership? What do we is the gymnastics team of Peter and Irma Ørum, continue to fund and what the Danish Gymnastics and owners of Midwest might we have to cut? Sports Association, the largest Groundcovers of St. As you are aware, The organization of any kind in Charles, Illinois, to Danish Immigrant Museum provide all the plantings Denmark. has been blessed to for the park. This is the receive generous bequests Beginning in Washington, D.C. and same family who recently that have helped us meet New York City, and crossing the country donated a 1951 Nimbus, operating expenses even to Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, a Danish motorcycle, as we have invested in our California, the team will perform in in memory of their son, endowment. Many of us do sixteen cities. Included in the tour Stig (see “The Collection not have the expendable will be visits and performances in the Connection” on page10 for income to make major Danish American communities of Tyler, the story). Their support annual gifts in our lifetime. Minnesota, Junction City, Oregon and for The Danish Immigrant A bequest gift can provide here in Elk Horn. Museum is an important an opportunity to create a named legacy. A highlight is that the National Danish example of in-kind gifting, Performance Team has been identifi ed for which we are all I invite you, after making provisions for loved ones, by the White House as celebrating grateful. to consider providing for healthy living in the fi ght against child Finally, I must end with an The Danish Immigrant observation about fi nancial obesity. This is largely due to the hard Museum in your estate. work and generosity of Mia Hansen, a support for The Danish I would also ask you to museum board member from Tucson, Immigrant Museum. When share the fact that you Arizona who has traveled the country I assumed my position in have done so with the soliciting support. 2003, I believed that we museum. Such information Accompanying the team will be a had to make major efforts is confi dential and of traveling exhibit designed by the to increase our visibility course subject to change. museum’s staff. In addition we plan through programming and Knowing, however, that museum events in each of the cities partnerships with members the museum will be the benefi ciary of future the team visits. This is a wonderful around the country. This bequests does assist us as opportunity to engage Danish we have done. Space does we plan for the future. American organizations in each not allow me to enumerate of the cities the team visits and to the many exhibits and The underlying reason for share our work here at The Danish programs we have my raising this issue is Immigrant Museum. provided or sponsored planning – planning that since that time. Our efforts directs loved ones and/ On another note, September 13, are inspired by the phrase or friends to carry out 2010 marks the 150th anniversary from the fi lm Field of what you desire. If you of the birth of Jens Jensen. Dreams, aptly set in Iowa: haven’t already done so, I Considered the “father of the “If you build it, they will encourage you to contact prairie school of landscape come.” an attorney to assure that architecture,” his story was the results of your life and If we provide the told in our America Letter (Fall work will be directed as programming, the support 2009). As many of you know, you desire. It really is about will come. This is not planning for the future. we are developing a Jens always true. Due to the Jensen Prairie Landscape downturn in the economy, John Mark Nielsen 2 • America Letter Park on museum grounds Executive Director America Letter New Programming at Bedstemor’s Published Three Times annually by The Danish Immigrant Museum Have you visited 2212 Washington street Bedstemor’s lately? elk horn, iowa 51531 712-764-7001 800-759-9192 Bedstemor’s House is FaX 712-764-7002 now open to visitors eva nielsen, editor www.danishmuseum.org every afternoon. email: [email protected] Owned and operated Board of Directors by The Danish President – harriet albertsen spanel, Immigrant Museum, bellingham, Wa Vice President – Mark nussle, Palos Park, il Bedstemor’s House is a Secretary – dennis andersen, atlanta, Ga historic house restored Treasurer – clark Mathisen, omaha, ne carlo christensen, Glendale, ca to its original 1908 lone christensen, brown deer, Wi appearance. Bedstemor ane-Grethe delaney, Wayzata, Mn is the Danish word for Mark Frederiksen, Falcon, co kurt hansen, rosemount, Mn “grandmother,” and the Mia hansen, Tucson, aZ house is furnished in Vice consul anna Thomsen holliday, houston, TX the style of a Danish kristi Planck Johnson, bethesda, Md American grandmother kenneth larsen, calistoga, ca Bedstemor’s House is open daily, 1 to 4 p.m., until steven lund, Yuma, aZ from a century ago. mid-September. cynthia Mckeen, st. Paul, Mn carol Jensen Mills, dubuque, ia Visitors to Bedstemor’s House this year enjoy several new additions. A new kay esbeck north, ames, ia 12-minute video is available to introduce the story of the original owner, Jens benedikte ehlers olesen, eugene, or consul lynette skow rasmussen, Otto Christiansen, the families who lived there, and the local residents who Johnston, ia restored the house. Families will enjoy the photo puzzles and “Can you fi nd it?” consul eva robinson, butler, Pa Mark strandskov, Mount Pleasant, Mi activities that encourage hunting for details through the house. On weekends, Janet M. Thuesen, sausalito, ca Bedstemor’s House hosts a series of craft demonstrations, hands-on activities, Ex-Offi cio Marc Petersen, omaha, ne and back yard games. Visit the kai nyby, laPorte, in museum’s website calendar for details Vern hunter, Fargo, nd nils Jensen, Portland, or about a particular day’s events, which dennis larson, decorah, ia are funded by a grant from the Shelby Staff County Community Foundation. Executive Director: The museum has hired three local dr. John Mark nielsen, [email protected] students to welcome visitors at General Information, Group Tours, Bedstemor’s House this summer. Volunteering Opportunities: Terri Johnson, Courtney Ericksen, Katie Zellmer, and [email protected] Preston Waymire join the museum Development Director: bruce bro, team to welcome visitors and share the [email protected] Wall of Honor, Donations, history of the house. Memorial Gifts & Memberships: Debra christensen larsen, Even if you can’t visit in person, you [email protected] can still enjoy the 12-minute video, Bookkeeping & Financial “The Story of Bedstemor’s House” on Inquiries: Jennifer Winters, [email protected] the museum’s YouTube channel. This Exhibit Questions: Tova brandt video was made possible with support [email protected] Artifact Donations & Museum Loans: from the Marne & Elk Horn Telephone angela stanford, Company and Humanities Iowa. On [email protected] YouTube.com, enter “DanishMuseum” Museum Shop: Joni soe-butts, Bedstemor’s is a historic house restored to [email protected] its original 1908 appearance. in the search fi eld to fi nd all of the Donation of Books & Library museum’s available videos. Questions: Michele Mcnabb, [email protected] Genealogical & Translation Inquiries: [email protected] COVER PHOTO: H.M. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark by photographer Custodian: Tim Fredericksen Museum & FHGC Data Entry: Wanda Steen Evald, Copenhagen. “ Across Oceans, Across Time, Across Genera- sornson, [email protected] tions: Celebrating the Seventieth Birthday of H.M. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark” begins on page 4. America Letter • 3 Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II is an accomplished artist. Here she creates decoupage illustrations for a new publication of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, “The Wild Swans.” Courtesy of JJ Films, Copenhagen, Denmark. Across Oceans, Across Time, Across Generations: Celebrating the Seventieth Birthday of H.M. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark by John Mark Nielsen This article was adapted from a speech honoring H.M. Queen Margrethe II’s seventieth birthday at a banquet in Illinois sponsored by the Midwest Danish American Chamber of Commerce. April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. So begins one of the most there is a renewed sense In April, seventy years ago important poems of the 20th of possibilities. in Denmark, memory and Century, T.S. Eliot’s “The April is also a time desire too were mingled. On April 9, 1940, the forces Waste Land.” of remembering – remembering the cruel of Nazi Germany swept April is a time of hope and winter which still lingers across the border and desire, a time when we plant in a late snowstorm, in occupied Denmark. On that seeds in anticipation of reaping a harsh frost that stunts April day, a free Denmark rich harvests.
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