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GREEN BAY, Wis. — You’ll usually find Wade Kaiser working at the Advanced Power Systems Laboratories at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. Other times, you can find him at places like The Midwest Viking Festival, demonstrating...
UW-Green Bay hosts the Midwest’s largest Viking festival this week. One of the organizers, Heidi Sherman, shares what’s in store and why the festival celebrates Vikings. Source: Midwest’s largest viking festival coming to Green...
All are invited to the annual Midwest Viking Festival at the UW-Green Bay Viking House! The festival will begin with a talk by Danish artist and author, Thomas Risom, master glass beadmaker, at the...
Green Bay, Wis.—On Friday and Saturday, Sep. 23 and 24, Vikings from near and far will gather and raise an encampment on the UW-Green Bay Viking House grounds (near Wood Hall) on the Green...
Wisconsin Humanities has been giving grants in support of local efforts to celebrate and explore our histories and cultures for 50 years! Over those decades, there have been projects in every corner of the...
UW-Green Bay’s Heidi Sherman (History) is the expert in this story by Foxweather about a Christmas Yule logs can mean different things for different people. For some, yule logs mean warm, crackling fireplaces. For...
GREEN BAY – When Heidi Sherman mentioned to her cab driver she was having a Viking Festival this weekend, the response from behind the wheel was something along the lines of, “Oh, I thought...
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Talk about a blast from the past, on Saturday, the inaugural Viking Festival dropped anchor and set up camp at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The festival celebrates Scandinavian...
GREEN BAY (WLUK) — Vikings from all around will be gathering on Saturday for the Green Bay Viking Festival, going on from 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. on the UW-Green Bay campus. The event...
The Green Bay Viking Festival featured a Viking encampment, cooking and crafting demonstrations, Viking games, battle reenactments, and learning about Norwegian culture through singing, storytelling, and dancing at the UW-Green Bay Viking House grounds,...
