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On Saturday September 7, the village of Stockholm, Wisconsin celebrated it's 151 years of Swedish heritage. Swedish Heritage Day is held annually on the Saturday after Labor Day with a Grand Parade, folk dancers & fiddlers, ethnic food and colonial crafters. The photos on this page were taken at this years event.

Grand Parade

(Top) Dancing to the music on the North Hudson Pepper Fest Float. (Right) The "Lutafisk King" Melvin Carlson from Red Wing, wheels down the Parade Route.

(Above) Ralph "Bud" Nelson blows the whistle on a 1889 Ellsworth Fire Dept. Steam Pump. (Right) Miss Durand, Tessa Lindstrom and Princess Amber Pechler in a very colorful float. (Below) Nyckelharpalag from the Twin Cities, play their instruments while in the Parade.

Twin Cities Nyckelharpalag

(Above) Twin Cities Nyckelharpalag at an afternoon performace at the Village Park. (Left) Two singers from the "Two By Fours & Friends" a group preforming Broadway Show Tunes and Hoe-down Style music. (Below) Scenes overlooking Lake Pepin taken from Stockholm's Village Park.

Lake Pepin

Food & Crafts

Left, Mavis Kjarlang from Pepin, flips some lefse at a Swedish food stand. Right, a woman spins some yarn at a "His Business" craft stand from Spring Grove Minn.