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Summer 2008

Grand Opening of the Ager Resource Library

Glimpses into my Grandfather's Scrapbooks
by Barbara Bergh Culver

Photos from Syttende Mai, 2008
(graphics-heavy page)


Gudrun Ager Bergh, 1904–2008



Ager House restorer Butch Paulson dies

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

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

Pat and Tom Tompkins,
Volunteers of the year

 


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.


The Ager House Resource Library holds collections of work by and about Ager, and about relevant topics on immigrant culture in the Chippewa Valley. Open to the public.

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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