Scandinavian Heritage Foundation

Crawfish Festival

New Sweden & Skandia Lodge

Invite you to

Bengts Kräftskiva

In the garden at Fogelbo

8740 SW Oleson Road, Portland, OR 97223

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Dinner 7:30pm – Midnight

Come join us for a fun, tradition-filled Swedish crayfish party with delicious food, singing, dancing and music for all generations.

New this year: Nordic Jazz with Anna-Frida Abrahamson

Please bring your own alcoholic drinks and a dish.

Make your reservations early as seating is limited to 120 people maximum

Ticket Prices

$20 per person for New Sweden and Skandia Lodge members

$25 per person for non-members

Last day for reservations (if tickets are still available) is August 8. Payment must accompany reservation request. For more information and questions about reservations call Vicki Cole, (503) 255-6697

Please make checks payable to “New Sweden” and mail to:

Vicki Cole ~ 14344 SE Main Street ~ Portland, OR 97223

NO REFUNDS AFTER AUGUST 8

The Crawfish Festival is an honored Swedish and Finnish tradition of outside summer parties during the month of August. As one article describes the event " ... the season opens on the second Wednesday in August, and crayfish may be sold and served in restaurants the following day." The evening of the premier or some evening during the weeks following, friends gather on terraces and balconies all around Sweden under gaily colored papered lanterns to feast on the little delicacies. Many donned comic party hats and paper bibs before attacking the heaped up platters. Accompaniments to crayfish, boiled in salt-water and seasoned with flowering dill, are simply bread and cheese, beer and perhaps aquavit. There are a wide variety of songs to accompany the feasting."

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