[conspire] Saturday, June 22nd CABAL date cancelled; Midsummer at Sveadal

[Josef Grosch]

On 06/13/2013 01:23 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> You're welcome to join us.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> -----
>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:01:23 -0700
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> To: Robert Keizer <robert at keizer.ca>
> Subject: Re: How goes it
> Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.
>
> Quoting Robert Keizer (robert at keizer.ca):
>
>> My fiancé and I are planning on being in the area the week of June 24 - 28.
>> I would love to get together if the timings work out.
> I don't know if your timing would permit this, but immediately before
> those dates on Saturday, June 22nd, there is a special annual event 45km
> south of San Jose.  It's the Bay Area Swedish community's Midsummer Day
> festival, at a place called Sveadal, which is Swedish for 'Swedish
> valley'.
>
> http://www.sveadal.org/SAPL/Midsummer.html
>
> (I am not Swedish but rather Norwegian.  There has historically been a
> great deal of bad blood between those neighbours, FWIW.)
>
> What is the attraction, you might ask?  Well, Scandinavians and
> particularly Swedes make quite a production of celebrating Midsummer
> Day, probably because sunlight is such a precious thing there and is
> much missed during the long depressing days of winter.  _Some_ of Canada
> can certainly sympathise, but I'm not one of those Yanks who think you
> all live in igloos.  ;->

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What we really want to know is, will there be lutefisk ?


Josef

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