Royal Ceremonies Rained Out
Above: Swedish festival royalty was crowned. Pictured are (left to right) Yaeger Glause, Lazarus Bell, Cora Blex and Charlie Palik, (back) King Dan Cramer and Queen Sandy Thompson. PCN photo by Beth Sparrow.
The Swedes had been doing some rain dancing, and it worked because just when the chicken barbecue was packing up and the dancers were almost ready, a monsoon-like horizontal rain hit the Stromsburg square. It didn’t last long, but the royal ceremonies were moved to the Evangelical Free Church and started 15 minutes later. Rain in the area was from zero to two inches, about ½ inch in most of the to…