February is a slow time of year for us, but that also means it is the perfect time of year to catch up and deep clean. We’ve been at work lately cleaning out and digitizing files and records including the boxes and boxes of slides and photographs collecting dust in our cabinets. We’re excited to share these old pictures with everyone and so have been posting batches of slides on our Facebook page on Fridaysfor #FlashbackFriday. Staff have been having a blast combing through these and playing a bit of guess who, and our friends on Facebook have been doing so as well. We would also like to thank Tami Jacobsen for helping us digitize the older Kodak slides.

Visitor traffic has shown some life this month, but it is still generally slow. We had only 322 entries in the guestbook for the month of February, but we also received the year’s first visitors from Denmark. The recent warm front brought in some familiar faces, but in general the cold has been keeping people away.

We’re happy to announce that the 2025 Danish plates are here. From Bing & Grøndahl we have this year’s Mother’s Day plate and Christmas plate. Last year was the final year of the Children’s Day plate. Royal Copenhagen is celebrating its 250th anniversary and so in addition to their 2025 Christmas plate, we also have a special commemorative plate for the 1775 - 2025 anniversary.

Last Thursday we put together another Throwback Thor’s Day. We coordinated with Norse Horse Tavern, Kringleman Pastries, the Egg Krate, Love You Mor, and the Museum of Danish America to put on a festive night of Danish food and fun. Norse Horse’s frikadeller special sold out in 20 minutes, and plenty more people enjoyed æbleskiver and medisterpølse at the bakery. Other businesses including the windmill were open late for the occasion. Unfortunately the mill didn’t have anyone stop by this time, but we know this is fairly typical this time of year. It’s still worthwhile to organize these events for the community and we’re hoping to host several more this year.

Tivoli Fest preparations kick off this week. Those who are interested in volunteering for the festival this year are encouraged to come out and join us at the Norse Horse, Thursday March 6 at 5pm. It will be difficult to top last year’s successes, so we will need all of the help we can get. Anyone interested in joining the committee is more than welcome.