Nordic Fest 50th Anniversary Book Project: Preliminary Results

What a wonderful 50th Nordic Fest just wrapped up in Decorah!

Watch this space for additional reporting soon, but here's a look at preliminary success indicators for the Nordic Fest 50th Anniversary Book project. You made this success happen: mange tusen takk!

1. Before anyone had seen the results of the project (first available to the community on July 16), incredible community volunteers and Nordic Fest fans invested in 420 books and DVDs.
2. The Decorah Area Chamber of Commerce staff and volunteers made significant contributions to this project by providing a local presale purchase as well as book pickup location. 
3. Early project supporters donated more than $5,000 to the project. This allowed for the following project expenses to be covered prior to the start of book sales:
• Professional transcribing of interviews
• Purchase of a DVD burner, DVDs and cases to accompany each book 
• Partial book layout expenses
4. Massive in-kind support was dedicated to this project by volunteers who researched and wrote the book, edited it, wrote the introduction, scanned the photos, produced the DVD and more.