Driftless Stories
Steps Back in Time: Foot-Notes + Highlandville Dances
Foot-Notes Scandinavian Music Keeps Dancers Turning at Highlandville Schoolhouse BY KRISTINE JEPSEN As the summer sun dips behind the bluffs in Northeast Iowa, cars nudge…
Foot-Notes Scandinavian Music Keeps Dancers Turning at Highlandville Schoolhouse BY KRISTINE JEPSEN As the summer sun dips behind the bluffs in Northeast Iowa, cars nudge…
Lots of fun things to look forward to in the Summer 2018 Inspire(d): 4-H • Dunning’s Spring bridge / Stonemason Ted Wilson • Viroqua’s Growing…
By Sara Friedl-Putnam • Originally published in the Summer 2016 Inspire(d) It’s the last Saturday in July, and thousands of men, women, and children –…
Ernest “Pokey Pete” Peterson was born in the spring of 1925 in Cedar Falls, IA. He grew up on a farm just outside of Osage where…
Inspired Magazine Summer 2016! Welcome to the 2016 ‘Summer’ issue of Inspire(d) Magazine! As always, the summer issue of Inspire(d) has a fun local food theme. This…
(Nordic Fest: 50 Years Strong, book cover design by Deb Paulson) “I had no idea what I was getting myself into by committing to this…
Ward Budweg has helped build a library in Rwanda, install a clean-water-catching system in Panama, and paint an orphanage in Peru. But perhaps no place…
It’s easy to let fifth-generation Decorah native Mark Faldet fool you: He’s the kind of guy who, having traveled the region for work at Luther…
Is it Gnome or Nisse? Not a question you might ask on a regular basis, that is…unless you’re Scandinavian. Or you live in Decorah. Or…
Nordic Fest is on! Lefse, lefse, lefse! (You can get Norsland Lefse, which is what they’re making here, at the Oneota Co-op this weekend). Stay tuned…