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Spring/Summer 2008


Gudrun Ager Bergh, 1904–2008



Ager House restorer Butch Paulson dies


Spring program traces history of ski jumping in Chippewa Valley, April 11

Syttende Mai 2008! Tickets go on sale April 1st

Ager House Library Grand Opening
June 20 – 22 , 2008

Sign up NOW for spring and fall '08 classes

Winter 2008 classes popular

2008 long-range plan of the Ager Association

Eau Claire Leader-Telegram features Ager House activities, 1-13-08, by Brad Bryan

Advent at the Ager 2007 was a hit!

Opportunity to buy adjacent lot

Missman donates painting to Ager House

Ager House: the early days (part one of a series)

Pat and Tom Tompkins,
Volunteers of the year

 


Spring donations

A 2004 reminiscence: Elspeth Lavold's account of Knitting across the Viking Trail exhibit

Ager's breakthrough novel, Christ before Pilate

Dark Decade: The Declining Years of Waldemar Ager, by Clarence Kilde



This section outlines the Waldemar Ager Association, its history and its projects. Membership and donation information also available.

Ager House
Information about the restoration and uses of Eau Claire's Ager House.

Biography of Waldemar Ager
Biographical sketches about Ager's life and legacy, with family photos.

Published works
List of Ager's published works, with some synopses, sample stories and ordering information.

Events
Upcoming events at the Ager House, archives of past events.

[Waldemar Theodor Ager] carried on activities that were of incalculable benefit not only to his own group, but to America as a whole. He was surely one of the most outstanding Norwegians ever to settle in the United States.

--
Einar Haugen, in Immigrant Idealist
Waldemar T. Ager, 1920s
Waldemar T. Ager


Having the house as a focal point helps us to bring other parts of the Ager story to the community. We want to "reconstruct' Ager, not just as an important Norwegian-American, but as a writer of excellent fiction, as the editor of an influential newspaper for forty years, as a civic leader, and as a popular speaker through the world. We want to draw out all of the "contexts" for Waldemar Ager's remarkable presence in the first four decades of the twentieth century.

--Timothy Hirsch, founder,
Waldemar Ager association

 
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