Tag Archive | Stoughton
Stoughton Historical Museum
5-16-15
We were in town to celebrate Syttende Mai and found out their historical museum was also open. It was closed the other times we visited. This is the 2015 hours.
Historical markers on site.
There are two floors to explore here, so many interesting artifacts. This is a bedroom display.
The Parlor
The Kitchen
Some homes even had a Rosemaling room. Such a beautiful art form!
A Schoolhouse
An instrument we were familiar with since we saw it at the McFarland Larson House, the Psalmodicon.
Here is a display of native dresses, called bunads.
One of the best things we saw here, a 1925 fire truck!
There is so much here to see, a great place to visit any Saturday between mid-May to Labor Day.
Stoughton’s Annual Syttende Mai Festival
5-18-14 and 5-15-15
We love coming to Stoughton and we were glad we could come to one of their biggest festivals of the year. Syttende Mai is a celebration of Norway’s Independence Day, this year is their Bicentennial! Norway became independent of Denmark on May 17, 1814.
We arrived downtown to a festive city, Norwegian flags and people wearing native clothing everywhere. We even see a street sign put up just during the festival.
We visited the craft fair first and saw so many wonderful items for sale! My favorite was GiftWorksPlus, specializing in picture frames, and they can make custom! We plan on getting some!
After visiting the craft show we headed back downtown to visit the store, Nordic Nook. I got a Syttende Mai T-shirt there.
We got settled in for the big parade at 1:30. What a great parade! So many interesting floats!
The King and Queen of 2014, also the Prince and Princess.
Even a float from Jefferson for their Gemeutlichkeit Days festival.
You’ll never guess who was in the parade, Vi Bergum 🙂 We have seen her at so many of the festivals we attend. She is in her 80’s and so full of vim and vigor.
What a wonderful parade, we had a great time helping Stoughton celebrate their homeland’s independence.
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We came back in 2015, this time on a Saturday and saw other events. On Saturday is the youth parade, a bit shorter than the main parade on Sunday. Still fun though, as you can see by all the smiles.
The Prince and Princess of 2015.
The kids at Pumpkin Patch Preschool were so cute!
After the parade we enjoyed a performance by the Norwegian Dancers from Stoughton High School. Very skilled in the traditional dances, they are preparing to compete in Norway next year! Lets watch them perform one of the crowd’s favorite dances. Uff da!
Olé and Lena hope you come back next year!
Summer 2013
May – August
Wow, what a great summer! I don’t think we could have packed much more in. Wisconsinites tend to start summer in May since there is so much going on and warm days don’t last long. We were no exception. Our summer began May 13 with our trip to Cedarburg.
May 16 – Milwaukee sightseeing
May 18 – Muscoda Morel Mushroom Festival.
May 27- World’s Largest Brat Fest
June 1 – Cows on the Concourse and Cars on State Street
June 11 – Paoli and Stoughton
June 15 – Cottage Grove (Fireman’s Festival)
June 20 – Waterloo
June 23-Cedarburg and Hartford
June 28 – Pendarvis and Shake Rag Alley
6-30 Sauk City Wollersheim Winery
7-4 Independence Day in DeForest
7-8 Marshall
7-13 Le Fete de Marquette and Art Fair on/off the Square
7-18 Madison Mallard’s Baseball and Waunakee
7-22 Oregon
7-27 Greek Fest , Clean Lake Festival and Atwood Summer Fest
7-28 Fennimore
8-3 Middleton Mustard Festival
8-9 Algoma and Green Bay and Rosendale
8-10 Susie the Duck Day in Lodi
8-15 Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Festival
8-18 Triangle Ethnic Fest
8-23 Orton Park Festival
8-24 Town of Burke Picnic
8-25 Circus World Museum
8-31 Taste of Madison
Whew! 🙂