ATDTDA (1): Tungus reindeer herders

[Dave Monroe]

--- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:

> "Tungus reindeer herders stood gesturing up at a
> gigantic sign reading SPECIAL REINDEER SHOW ...
> (p. 23).

The Tungus isn't in Norway, I know, but ...

Of the more than 200 buildings erected for the fair,
the only two which still stand in place are the Palace
of Fine Arts and the World's Congress Auxiliary
Building. From the time the fair closed until 1920,
the Palace of Fine Arts housed the Field Columbian
Museum (now the relocated Field Museum of Natural
History). In 1931 the building re-opened as the Museum
of Science and Industry. The cost of construction of
the World's Congress Auxiliary Building was shared
with the Art Institute of Chicago, which moved into
the building (the museum's current home) after the
close of the fair.

The only other significant building that survived the
fair is the Norway pavilion, a building now preserved
at a museum called "Little Norway" in Blue Mounds,
Wisconsin.

The other buildings at the fair were all intended to
be temporary....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Columbian_Exposition

Little Norway 

Nestled in a beautiful valley twenty miles west of
Madison, hidden in the foothills of Blue Mounds WI. is
a charming and unique outdoor museum known as Little
Norway. It has another, more romantic name which
suggests more vividly the sense of magic that pervades
this lovely valley: Nissedahle, or Valley of the
Elves. 

http://www.littlenorway.com/

The "Norway Building" built in Norway for Chicago's
Colombian Exposition of 1893, is a fine example of
ancient Norse church architecture.  This building
contains an impressive and colorful collection of folk
objects from both Scandinavia and America.

http://www.littlenorway.com/tour/tour.htm

Ha!  I was there one rainy day in the 70s with the
family, but didn't realize ...


 
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