Join us for a special springtime dinner event to mark major 2025 milestones and the “Giants of the Earth” who came from many lands to settle and build our Spring Grove region.

This dinner event features music by the Luren Singing Society and soloist Rachel Storlie, and celebrates the work of Dr. David Judisch, Luther College professor emeritus, who has directed the Luren Singers for 50 years.

As a Crossings 200 event, the evening commemorates the 200th anniversary of the first organized emigration of Norwegians to the United States. The single mast sloop Restauration left Stavanger in July 1825 with 52 people on board and arrived in New York City harbor on October 9, 1825. In the period beginning in 1825 and for about 100 years after, more than 800,000 Norwegians immigrated to North America.

Dinner menu
Beef sirloin or salmon
Rice pilaf
Asparagus
Corn
Shortcake & berries

Evening program
5:00 pm cocktail hour
6:00 pm event start 
6:15 pm Luren concert
7:15 pm Dinner served
8:00 pm Bicentennial program
8:30 pm Honoring David Judisch