CANCELLED – 8th Annual Winternights Festival Oct 21nd 2018
Sorry – cancelled due to health & financial reasons
2017 WNF raised $550 for NNJ Veterans Memorial Cemetery
As in past years this event raised money for the Northern NJ Veterans Cemetery
Last year’s event raised $307 for NNJ Veterans Memorial Cemetery. This years gate raised $381 + an additional $29 in voluntary donations above the gate fee, or a total of $410. Over $100 more than last year. The Nordic House has chosen to donate its $1 portion of the gate that was to help cover costs as well. This brings the total amount that will be donated this year to $550. Thank you attendees!!!
Thank you to everyone that attended this event. We were busy so not able to really notice but others said it seemed like a good turn out. Thanks to those that donated extra for the Veterans. Thank you to all the great vendors, educators, participants, performers, et ALL. We heard a lot of nice feed back during the event about the quality of vendors we had and the craftsmanship of them. Thanks to the hard working volunteers some which prefer not to have their name on FB etc. Safe journey and a long one 🙂
Hail Facebook – Hail Vetrnaetr on it!
Build a Viking Longship Project
Each year we work on adding something new to the grounds that honors our Viking ancestors in a way that is informative, educational, and respectful. We usually unveil it at our Winternights Festival in October. This year’s project will do that in a way and on a scale we believe Odin and the Norns will approve of.
It WAS our intention to build a replica Viking longboat modeled after the style and dimensions of the Gokstad. Not an exact replica but a ship that shows the construction principals and techniques that Vikings used. Unfortunately it is the end of August and we still are waiting on the logs needed. There is not time now to do it for the festival. One can see all the updates about it on our project page http://www.winternightsfestival.com/drakkar-longship-project/ or better yet join or donate or both. We were also planning on doing more Viking culture/village examples this year SO NOW the plan is to set up an area showing a setting and items that might be found where the Vikings were building a ship(s). We’ll also include relative and informative talks and demonstrations.
* Would like to thank Jan Bill, professor & curator of the Viking Ship Collection, at Oslo Universitet for responding immediately with helpful info along with wishing us well on the reconstruct. During our kickoff meeting and in the video we showed at it we acknowledged Thomas Finderup for his expertise on riving and viking ship construction. We recently contacted him for further information on techniques. He responded immediately including providing us a photo to help. We want to thank him for doing that and to subsequently acknowledge him for his guidance and continued help. Thank you!!!