Kinder Klompers Learn From Dawn Fern
Baldwin group Kinder Klompers trains under Dawn Fern focusing on stomp and shoe-clicking routines. The young dancers embrace rhythmic movement and disciplined practice centered on clacking steps and in-sync footwork.
Baldwin Klompers Dance Troupe Keeps Dutch Tradition Alive
Dawn Fern teaches Cedar Grove and Baldwin groups in wooden shoe clomping to emulate American Dutch dance. The two ensembles include 32 adults and 32 children aged 3 to fifth grade. Groups learn basics from Cedar Grove after 20 plus years together. kids wear donated Kinder Klompers shoes and perform at local festivals while adults appear at venues like the Radisson Hotel in St Paul.
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Cedar Grove
Baldwin
Klompen
Radisson
Kinder Klompers
Hillary Wolski
Baldwin's
Klompen n klappen Lets Go Dutch Days dances in Baldwin
Beginning mid June, kindergarteners learn Dutch routines and a song in twelve lessons. They perform during Let's Go Dutch Days in Baldwin on July 30 and 31 plus August 1. Adults dance Thursday at 8 p.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. Children dance Friday 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Kiddie parade 6 p.m. Friday and 12 45 p.m. Saturday. Chamber of Commerce at 715 684 2221 for more events.
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Baldwin
Baldwin Area
Missing rural schools puzzle baffles St. Croix historians
Evie Sarinske and Lola Fouks, members of St. Croix County Extension Homemakers, seek to recover records and photos of local rural schools. Their yearlong effort, sparked by Professor Jerry Apps, aims to preserve county history before it’s lost to time, with students already recalling Green Creek school near Forest Township.
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St. Croix County
Evie Sarinske
Lola Fouks
Rural schools of St Croix County come to light
A six woman team from the Hudson Area Historical Society is tracing 19th and early 20th century rural schools in St Croix County. They map locations from 1897 platt books then seek names of pupils and teachers via school records, attics, and archives. The project aims to preserve vanished schools like Dry Run Hopyard Cloverleaf and more.
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Barb Zimmerman
Dry Run
Hopyard
la Crosse
Historical Society
Hudson
UW River Falls
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