Getting ready for the weekend
We're doing a gig for the Sons of Norway on Sunday, so we're getting things ready. Babette, who organized the show, is getting note cards ready and finding out what the participants from Micel Folcland want to do. Every client has its own special needs, and we have learned to direct our presentation to fulfill those desires.
One of those needs this time is to be told about the 1893 Viking ship that sailed to the Colombian Exposition. They are visiting the ship at Swedish Day and want to know a bit about it; ironically, we'll be set up next to the ship. After a year of strenuous research while writing my book on the ship, this pretty well falls to me. Besides copies of the book--which I hope to peddle--I will be bringing a colorized photo from the World's Fair (I bought a frame for it today) and a copy of the stereo-opticon card from the fair (which I found on an Edgar Rice Burroughs web page; it dealt with ERB's visit to the fair as a demonstrator of his father's battery company, a couple decades before he published anything; God I love trivia). I won't be bringing my expensive new (old) Victorian stereo-opticon (I have a small plastic modern version that came in a box of ACW artifacts that I bought a few years ago. I've got to remember to try the stereo card repros that came with the set with the real s-o)
It ought to be fun. The Scandinavian-American community has always been incredibly appreciative and supportive of what we're trying to do!
One of those needs this time is to be told about the 1893 Viking ship that sailed to the Colombian Exposition. They are visiting the ship at Swedish Day and want to know a bit about it; ironically, we'll be set up next to the ship. After a year of strenuous research while writing my book on the ship, this pretty well falls to me. Besides copies of the book--which I hope to peddle--I will be bringing a colorized photo from the World's Fair (I bought a frame for it today) and a copy of the stereo-opticon card from the fair (which I found on an Edgar Rice Burroughs web page; it dealt with ERB's visit to the fair as a demonstrator of his father's battery company, a couple decades before he published anything; God I love trivia). I won't be bringing my expensive new (old) Victorian stereo-opticon (I have a small plastic modern version that came in a box of ACW artifacts that I bought a few years ago. I've got to remember to try the stereo card repros that came with the set with the real s-o)
It ought to be fun. The Scandinavian-American community has always been incredibly appreciative and supportive of what we're trying to do!