Immigration to Eau Claire will be featured Thursday evening as part of the programming celebrating the 150th anniversary of Waldemar Ager’s birth. Brian Blakeley, a historian who is in the process of researching and writing about Eau Claire’ history, will talk about immigrants in Eau Claire with particular emphasis on Ager’s experiences and contributions. The […]
Monday evening program to explore loss of cultural identities as immigrant groups become “Americanized”
A REPORT ON THIS EVENT WILL BE PUBLISHED SOON
The loss of minority groups’ cultural identities during their assimilation into American society will be the focus of a program at 7 p.m. next Monday (Feb. 11) at Eau Claire’s L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library.
The program, “On the Way to the Melting Pot—Then and Now: Waldemar Ager and Hmong History and Culture,” will offer perspectives originating a century apart and half a world from each other. .
Ager museum celebrates Norwegian culture, legacy of prominent local journalist and civic leader
By Andrew Fefer, for the Chippewa Valley Post A museum honoring the legacy of Waldemar Ager, a newspaper editor and civic leader who settled in Eau Claire about 120 years ago, is bringing Norwegian language and culture to the Chippewa Valley starting this month. Classes on speaking the Norwegian language and on rosemaling (a kind of […]