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Swedish Club News Swedish Club News Vol. 56, Issue 8: August 2017 Swedish Club . Seattle . Washington A home for the Nordic-American community Finnish Your Dinner inns around the world are Fdoing it on this weekend, and so are we. To celebrate 100 years of Finnish independence, we’re Our Mission participating in the invitation to dine To promote better understanding under the sky on Friday, Aug. 25. It’s between the United States and appropriate! Nordic people are ardent outdoor eaters, and will use the Nordic countries, with any brief bit of sun as an excuse to emphasis on Sweden, and to join the pleasure of being outside perpetuate Nordic culture with the enjoyment of eating. and traditions through the We will lay out long dinner teaching, observance, practice tables in front of our building, and celebration of this culture deck them with white tablecloths and its traditions. and serve delicious Finnish food. We’ll toast Finland’s centennial of independence from Russia while we enjoy the delicious food Menu prepared by Chef Christine Lea. The theme for Finnish Your Dinner • Aug. 25, 2017 Finland’s year of celebrations is “Together,” demon- 6:30 p.m. strating that Finns and friends of Finns are welcome to take part. The cost is $28 and we must have your Whitefish with roe, sour cream and reservation by Tuesday, Aug. 22. malted bread Our “Finnish Your Dinner” celebration on The whitefish is prepared using the gravlax Friday, Aug. 25, will take the place of the regular hot method with sugar, salt, dill, Finnish gin and dinner served in our dining room during Happy Hour, so we hope you’ll join in. crushed juniper berries, and then sliced thin. The Years of Being Nordic! Warm mushroom salad candinavians have been moving into our area for Bibb and rocket lettuce sprinkled with a light Saround 150 years. The 1880 census counted 190 vinaigrette and topped with a variety of Scandinavians in Seattle—but by 1892, there were warm sautéed mushrooms and fresh lingon- enough Swedes to start the Swedish Club. Scandina- berries. vian or Nordic cooperation began way back then, with Seattle residents showing more genteel Pickled fried herring behavior to each other than they might have Cabbage rolls with beef, onions and demonstrated back home. After all, citizens of spices Norway were willing to go to war against Sweden in 1905 to get their independence! But here in Åland baked pancake topped with Seattle, Scandinavians joined others in planning the summer jam and whipped cream Cont. on p. 4 www.swedishclubnw.org Swedish Club Club Notes 1920 Dexter Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109 enjamin Franklin might well have amended current prices. Thanks to our “Beer for a Year” his famous quote about death and taxes to offer, $300 a year buys you a personalized beer 206-283-1090 Club Business B 206-283-1078 Rentals remind us that “in this world nothing can be said mug and a prepaid beer whenever the bar is 206-283-2970 FAX to be certain, except death, taxes and inflation.” open to members. If you prefer fruit of the vine, [email protected] After years of consistent drink prices at our bar, $100 a year buys you a personalized wineglass, [email protected] the Swedish Club is which you may fill with a [email protected] www.swedishclubnw.org raising prices across the large pour for $5, again Office Hours board by $1 per drink. anytime the bar is open to Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. As a Swedish Club members. Board of Directors employee since 2009 and Lunch and dinner President Gary Sund Past President Paul Heneghan your Executive Director prices will increase too, Vice President Janice Bogren since 2011, I can assure but the amount depends Secretary Vi Reno Treasurer Judith Peterick you that drink prices have on the food item. Since Directors: Patrick Dolan, Mary Emerson, not gone up as long as food prepared but not Mary Hillman, Monica Grafstrom Hinckley, Chris Jones, Larry Omdal, Don Wahlquist I’ve been here. But I can also assure you that the sold loses money for us, we’ll cut back slightly Swedish Club Foundation prices we pay for liquor have indeed risen in that on the number of dinners prepared. (Please feel President Bob Blair time period. Which leads me to two pieces of free to call ahead and pay for your Friday dinner VP/Treasurer Leif Eie Secretary Berit Lehner good news about higher drink prices. so that it will be waiting for you.) We invite you Club Operations The first is that we serve our members and to come eat and drink—and raise a glass to the Executive Director Kristine Leander the Club, and raising prices means we are taking financial stability of the Swedish Club! Skål! Rentals/Facil. Mgr. Doug Newlands Office/Vol. Coord. Eva Larson good fiduciary care of the Club. The second Event Coord. Britt Erika Leggett piece of good news is that our beer mug and KRISTINE LEANDER, Executive Director Rentals Coord. Court Potter Staff Accountant Sue Johnson wineglass opportunities will remain at their [email protected] Nominating Committee Chair Jan Sullivan Club Historian Aina Oscarsson President’s Message Swedish Club Guild Vice President Carol Graves ran across some photos from our recent trip House in Stockholm. When people are intro- Secretary Jan Sullivan Treasurer Alana Brandstrom I to Sweden, and began to reminisce about our duced at this affair, they’re obliged to walk Parliamentarian Jean Wirch experiences. There was Stockholm’s Old Town down a grand staircase extending into the hall, Swedish Singers of Seattle with its cobblestone streets (wear good shoes with no railing and a very open feeling. You Swedish Women’s Chorus & Svea Male Chorus to save your ankles and feet) and many plazas. must walk down the stairs looking straight [email protected] For an old water engineer like me, the commu- ahead, and if you are smart, you practice before swedishsingersofseattle.org nity wells located in each plaza were really the event. Former First Lady Michelle Obama Swedish Club News Editor: Kristine Leander cool. The changing of the guards and the Vasa stated that this was one of the scariest things Copy Editor: Martin Stillion Museum were terrific. she had ever done. Swedish Club News (USPS 533-750) After several days in Stockholm, we drove Heading south along the eastern seaboard is published monthly as part of south to Oland, where my mother’s parents (the on one of the last legs of our road trip, we yearly membership dues at $15 per Petersons) came from, north to Leksand where stayed in Enanger at a great little B&B named person, per year, by the Swedish Club, 1920 Dexter Ave. N., Seattle, the Sunds came from and further north to the after the town. It was an idyllic setting next to WA 98109-2795. Telephone is mountains. Then it was east to the sea and back a babbling stream. The couple who ran the B&B 206-283-1090. Periodicals post- age paid at Seattle, Washington. down to Stockholm. The backbone of the trip were so excited to have us there, and so Postmaster: send address changes consisted of family history; major sites such as friendly that we hated to leave. Over breakfast to Swedish Club News, 1920 Dexter Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109-2795. Carl Larsson’s house and garden in Sundborn; the we asked about surstromming, a type of Deadline for material for the mountains and the making of dalas—but when I fermented Baltic herring with an odor some- next issue is Aug. 15. reminisce, what comes to mind is the people, the times compared to the smell of eggs rotting in Bring articles into the office or fax to 206-283-2970. You may also stories and the everyday experiences. open sewage drains. Our hosts used to own the e-mail articles to The dinner event where the Nobel prizes store in town that sells tins of this stuff, but [email protected]. are handed out occurs at the Government they said we wouldn’t be allowed to take it on 2 august 2017 a plane. The tins are prone to exploding, and In the north, following the many lonely the longer they sit around, the more likely roads (ours was the only car around for long SC Announces this is to happen. So on their advice we did periods of time), we did not see a single News about, or in the interest not buy any. But I will always wonder how moose. But we did run into reindeer, almost of our members... bad the smell is. Maybe someday… literally. I still chuckle when I think of The Swedish Club announces 1,219 Our hosts also told us about the centu- following a loose-limbed reindeer trotting in member households, including 82 ries-old church across the road. They urged us front of us down the middle of the road. Lifetime members and 142 Social to walk up past the new church to They are ungainly, yet beautiful. members. Our members’ names the pastor’s house, where a key There are too many sights and appear in boldface in Swedish Club News. hanging outside near the door would experiences to mention here. allow us entry to the old church. It Perhaps I’ll share more of them in a New Members turned out to be a skeleton key future message. I totally recom- Kenan Block about 18 inches long and weighing at mend renting a car and driving Maureen & Jonas Boli least 10 pounds.
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