Announces

Annual Meeting

Held Friday, November 10, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. in Beresford.

44^th Celebration of the St. Lucia Tradition in Dalesburg

Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 3:00 p.m.

Dalesburg Lutheran Church

154^th Dalesburg Midsummer Festival

Friday, June 21, 2024 (Tentative) and Sunday, June 23, 2024

Dalesburg Lutheran Church

For information, visit www.dalesburg.org or contact Ron Johnson at: ron@dalesburg.org or 605-253-2575.

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Weather permitting… Pandemic permitting…

Dalesburg Scandinavian Association will host the 43^rd Celebration of the St. Lucia Tradition on

Sunday, December 11 at 3:00 p.m. at Dalesburg Lutheran Church.  Welcome! 

To learn about the Nordic tradition of St. Lucia in Sweden, please go to:   

To find out how Lucia is celebrated in the other Nordic countries, Google the name of the country and the name Lucia. 

For Sale:  The Book:  History of the Swedes Who Settled in Clay County, South Dakota and Their Biographies by August Peterson (1947).  Contact Ron Johnson for information at:  ron@dalesburg.org 

Dalesburg Midsummer Festival will be Friday, June 23 and Sunday, June 25, 2023.

For holiday giving with a Dalesburg touch, go to:  www.dalesburg.org or contact Ron Johnson.  There are quilts, t-shirts, mugs, cookbooks, etc. for sale. 

                                                                                                                                       ron@dalesburg.org

                                                                                                                                       605-660-2188

Dalesburg-Made Yellow and Blue Tie Quilts – Two quilts available.

$150 / quilt + postage & handling.

UPDATE: QUILTS ARE SOLD

Quilt 1

Quilt 2

If interested please email Ron at Ron@dalesburg.org

Payments will be sent to

Friends of Midsummer

30595 University Road

Vermillion, SD 57069-6507

Welcome to the 152nd Annual Midsummer – Friday, June 24, 2022

Spring 2022!

Dear Friends of Midsummer,

Midsummer is Friday, June 24

and the Church Service is Sunday, June 26

the band Jaerv from Gothenburg, Sweden

will be our featured performers on June 24. 

www.jaerv.com

We are sending the renewal notices for the Friends of Midsummer in the same envelope as the Dalesburg Scandinavian Association membership notices, as many of you belong to both organizations.  We would appreciate if you would write two separate checks as the organizations have two separate checking accounts.  Thank You!

Midsummer was not held in 2020 although the fundraising letters went out before the Pandemic.  Midsummer was held in 2021 and we used the funds raised in 2020.

Please visit our website:  www.dalesburg.org for information about Midsummer 2022.  Check out:  www.facebook.com/Dalesburgmidsommar. 

Thank You to the American Scandinavian Foundation in New York City for funding the performances of Jaerv in South Dakota in June.

We appreciate your continuing support of the Dalesburg Midsummer Festival.  We look forward to hearing from you – our faithful supporters!

… and we hope to get back to normal!

THANK YOU!

Welcome to Midsummer 2022! 

Ron Johnson for the Friends of Midsummer

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Membership Classification:

  ___  Husband & Wife ($35.00/year)

___  Individual ($20.00/year)     ___  Organization or Business ($50.00/year)

Please make check payable to:  FRIENDS OF MIDSUMMER, and mail to:  Friends of Midsummer, c/o Dalesburg Midsummer Festival, 30595 University Road, Vermillion SD 57069.  (You may also enclose it in your envelope to Dalesburg Scandinavian Association.)  Thank You.