Oswego resident Jerri Lynn Baker’s fish soup recipe won Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 5-472’s 2024 Souper Bowl contest Feb. 4. In an annual contest held in conjunction with the Super Bowl, the cookoff highlighted Polar Star’s monthly membership meeting at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Montgomery. In honor...
Yorkville resident Barbara Johnson, left, and sister Connie Kross, Sandwich, Sunday pose with a display chronicling suburban Norwegian-American women.
Montgomery resident Vy Skogen, right, demonstrates making lefse, Norwegian potato flatbread, at a Sons of Norway Polar Star chapter 5-472 meeting.
Aurora resident Brooklyn Czenk, 14, receives a gift from Ken Johnson, Yorkville, portraying Julenisse, Norway's version of Santa, Sunday, Dec. 3.
Amada Beck, from left, of Seneca; Linda Anderson, Ottawa; and Barb Johnson, Yorkville, model bunads, Norwegian folk dresses, Sunday at a textile fair at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Montgomery.
Yorkville resident Barb Johnson takes a sample of homemade soups in a 2020 Norwegian soup cookoff held Super Bowl Sunday by Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 5-472 members at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Montgomery.
Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 5-472 members peruse raffle items prior to the Lodge's Sunday, Feb. 6, meeting at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Montgomery.
American pioneers going west circled their wagon trains to defend against attacks. Fox Valley Norwegian-Americans circled their vehicles Sunday, to share COVID-19 pandemic survival stories. Approximately 30 Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 5-472 members gathered at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Montgomery for a parking-lot party to celebrate resuming...
