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Winter 2008–2009

Advent at the Ager 2008
Join us for the 8th annual
celebration of the season—
Norwegian-style!

Winter 2008–2009 class list

Library wish list

Folk fair, Board meeting, pie social, Blaine Hedberg, other happenings

Fall donors

Knitting artist Elspeth Lavold Returns, February 21–22, 2009

Ager House available for events

Remember Nordmann's Forbundet?

Thank you, Carolyn Gabrielsen Barstad!

Grand Opening of the Ager Resource Library

Glimpses into my Grandfather's Scrapbooks
by Barbara Bergh Culver

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

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. Photos then and now.


The Ager House Resource Library holds collections of work by and about Ager, and about relevant topics on immigrant culture in the Chippewa Valley.
Hours:
Summer: Tue. and Sat., 12–3 p.m
Winter (Sept.–May): Saturdays, 12-3 pm
and by appointment
Call Ken at 715.832.0956 to reserve a time & to volunteer.

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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