WHERE COVENANT RAINBOWS OF GOD'S PROMISES, BEGIN AND NEVER END, AND WHERE ANGELS TREAD, DEVILS FLEE, AND CHILDREN OF GOD ARE SAFE TO GO.
FIRST AND LAST, "LET GOD BE EXALTED
AND MAN BE ABASED!"
--Bernice Augusta Stadem Schaefer,
Founder of the Tradition of Annual, now the Biannual Stadem Reunions on Plain View Farm
Plain View Farm Angel Missing One Wing & Playing Autoharp, Doodle by Eben
HEY, LET'S GIVE THE ANGEL HIS WING BACK! Praise less believers not only clip angel wings, they even take them!
"Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
Then the earth shall yield her increase;
God, our own God, shall bless us.
God shall bless us,
And all the ends of the earth
shall fear Him."--Psalm 67:5-7
WINNING VALUES. VIBRANT CULTURE. WONDROUS CHRIST.
CONTENT: Christian Family, Norwegian American pioneer farm life, Faith, Values, Roots in Norway and Haugean Revival, Death, Tragedy, Restoration, Church, America the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, Nordic Cuisine, Patriotism, Sod House and Pioneer Farm Origins, Farm Children's Stories, Israel and Jews, Messianic calling, Reunions and Welcoming Hospitality to All, Centennial Farm celebration 2018, Centenarians, SD Centennial Message by Pastor Leroy Stadem, Bryant, SD, June 29,m 1986, Bible and Hebrew Heritage, Tributes to Godly Ancestors, Parents, and Grandparents, Rare Portrait of Grandmother at Prayer for her Families, Clean Norskie jokes, Album Photos, AND MORE!! BUT CAN YOU TAKE IT? CAN YOU AND YOUR HEART EXPAND ENOUGH TO ENJOY IT ALL?
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Norwegian bark (fixed sail ship) that carried Sjur and Oline & Family to North America
"Stadems Sail to America," by Ron Ginther
Oline and Sjur Stadem, Norwegian Immigrants, Dakota Territory Pioneers
Founders of Plain View Farm, Alfred & Bergit (Bessie) Stadem
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Bryant, South Dakota, "Biggest Little City of the Northwest," and a Mother of Gospel Missions Spreading Round the World!
"IS THERE A CROSS ON PLAIN VIEW FARM?"
"Is there a Cross on Plain View Farm?"
by Ron Ginther
Norwegian bark (fixed sail ship) that carried Sjur and Oline & Family to North America
"Stadems Sail to America," by Ron Ginther
Oline and Sjur Stadem, Norwegian Immigrants, Dakota Territory Pioneers
Founders of Plain View Farm, Alfred & Bergit (Bessie) Stadem
Bryant, South Dakota, "Biggest Little City of the Northwest," and a Mother of Gospel Missions Spreading Round the World!
"IS THERE A CROSS ON PLAIN VIEW FARM?"
"Is there a Cross on Plain View Farm?"
by Ron Ginther
where sinners can find a cure for sin?
Is there a cross on Plain View Farm
with healing for life's wounds within?
No need for excuses, not when
they stagger to the grave--
they need a real Savior,
not to improve but their souls to save!
The real Jesus was rejected long ago,
a whole society chose Barabbas --and viewed Christ's
death as a circus show.
They rejected His Cross, is it any different today?
Is there a Cross on Plain View Farm?
Or did Jesus, with tears, walk slowly away?
Ron Gnther's new book, "Becca the Red," illustrates the life and career of a Danish Viking, starting with his boyhood in a little village named after a stream in the hollow. In obscure circumstances, he rises out of a Dark Age culture engrossed in grossness--raiding, looting, burning, and worse things--all based on greed. The popular Viking television programs and Hollywood films and books and YouTube videos do not tell the true story about Vikings. They glamorize them, and glamorize violence at the same time. The tragic cost to Viking society is not depicted. This book attempts to show what it was really like for a Holbek ancestor who was encouraged by his wise grandfather and father to set another course for his dragon ship than the course set by the misled society around them. The book will not be long, perhaps 200 pages, available as an e-book on Amazon and other platforms. Frankly, I expect few serious nibbles from Relations, but the Holbeks over in Norway might find it interesting, those who are English-proficient. Perhaps they will get it translated for the Norwegian market? Would be nice! This was my chance to connect with my Holbek ancestors in a way that showed how a troubled, conflicted young Dane of the 9th century could find Christ and experience a transforming faith that would change society around him, even as he served as a mercenary for the Emperor Constantine IV in Byzantine Constantinople and later Charlemagne in the Frankish empire.--Ed.
THIS IS A REALLY TOUCHING FILM LIKE FEW ARE: THE DANISH FILM: "BABETTE'S FEAST": PORTRAYS SACRIFICIAL, SELFLESS, CHRISTLIKE GIVING TO OTHERS SHOWN BY A SINGLE WOMAN, A FRENCH REFUGEE AND LOWLY HOUSE SERVANT IN A NORTHERN COASTAL VILLAGE HOME OF TWO PIOUS, ELDERLY SISTERS IN THE 1900s. SOUNDS DULL? WELL, THAT VILLAGE LIFE WAS CERTAINLY HUMDRUM AND DULL AS SOGGY, COLD FRENCH TOAST ON YOUR PLATE. BUT DON'T BE FOOLED, DYNAMITE IS GOING TO EXPLODE IN ALL THEIR LIVES, IGNITED BY THIS LONE, POOR, HARD-WORKING FRENCH WOMAN, BABETTE:
Heg "practiced what he had preached" about the rights of men including black people. He put his very life on the line for the freeing of the slaves. Isn't that admirable? Wisconsin teachers, are you teaching these facts to your students, or or you parroting the mantras of Black Lives Matter (but white lives do not?). Heg was a colonel in the Wisconsin infantry and was killed in the battle of Chicamauga, in Georgia in 1863 while fighting to free the slaves. He gave his very life for them, yet he is labeled a "white racist" by the anarchist mob in Wisconsin. They dragged his statue to Lake Manona and threw it in. The historic statue had been erected in 1925 and stood there as a noble example of Heg's self-sacrifice for the freedom of black people. Any state would be proud, you would think, of such a citizen, who brought such glory and honor to it. But not Wisconsin, apparently! The irresponsible Wisconsin authorities allowed the destruction of the statue, standing down when the mob began its rampage.
Wipe the shame from your Wisconsin State Escrutcheon, People of Wisconsin! Remove the sin, shame, and outrage of what an anti-American mob was allowed to perpetrate in destroying Hans Christian Heg's statue. How? Start teaching again what you need to teach instead of the political substitutes for a genuine education. Long live the memory of this noble man and Norwegian immigrant in Wisconsin and American history!--Ed.
"S-S-S-SOUTH DAKOTA
(Tune "Katy")
S-S-S-South Dakota, South Dakota,
You're the only s-s-s-state that I adore.
Whenever the sun shines over the corn fields
We are worth a m-m-m-million dollars more.
(Tune "Smiles")
You may sing of your Nebraska,
You may sing of Iowa, too. You could name multitudes of blessings
That the Lord has given you.
There is just one State in all the Union
From the north to south, from east to west,
That was made for men to really live in;
South Dakota, we love you best.
Hail, South Dakota, the State we love the best,
Land of our fathers, Builders of the West;
Home of the Badlands, and Rushmore's ageless shrine,
Hills, farms and prairies, blessed with bright sunshine.
Published by Cooperative Extension Work, U.S. Department of Agriculture
and South Dakota State College Cooperating. Distributed in furtherance of Acts of Congress of May 3 and June 10, 1914. George I. Gilberton, Director--SDES-Y-87
Leroy Stadem, Pastor of many churches, gave a Centennial State celebration message.
Grace Shubert Svanoe, who moved out from the nice Peace Corps compound quarters she had and once chose to live in the same squalid poverty as a lone woman among those in Central America she came to serve, breathed out these Last Words in Prayers in Anahuac, Chihuahua, October 31, 2010:
"Help us find our way"
"Thank you, Lord"
reprinted from "Rennard Svanoe Update -
DEN STADEM SAMTALERAN,
March 2011
Memorial to Grace"
Tribute to Grace Shubert Svanoe,
by Ron Ginther
was all she could say,
on her bed of pain in Old Mexico.
As you hurry and click on by, on some app
seeking pie in the sky,
pause a moment, friend,
and hear her whisper, sweet and low:
"Help us find a way,"
was all she could say,
but no lengthy eloquence in a
marble and gold pulpit was ever equal.
She was drawing her last breaths,
and her soul was nearing the end;
but yet the Spirit was drawing her
close,
healing and making her whole.
We know all was well, when her
very last words came,
"Thank you, Lord"--
breathed to the One she adored.
Yes, Christ came down for physical needs,
but no one could pay him with
meritorious deeds;
spiritually blind, halt, and lame,
rich or poor, schooled or untaught,
they needed him most desperately all the same.
Posted Bryant Inspector's Building Permit for the Plain View Farm HERITAGE CENTER BARN
PART I--WORLD WAR II COMMANDO AND RESISTANCE HERO, KNUT HAUKELID AND HIS TEAM FLEW FROM BRITAIN TRAINED TO KNOCK OUT THE HEAVY WATER PLANT AT VEMORK THE NAZIS WERE USING IN NORWAY FOR THEIR NUCLEAR REACTOR IN GERMANY.
THIS IS THE INTRODUCTORY, OR FRONT DOOR, BUT IT TAIN'T THE ONLY PART BY ANY MEANS! PLEASE GO FROM HERE
TO HOME PAGE PARTS 1, 2, 3, and 4, AS THERE IS MUCH, MUCH MORE
FOR YOU TO EXPLORE OF OUR GOLDEN HERITAGE IN GOD AND FAMILY VALUES OF A CENTENARIAN PIONEER SOUTH DAKOTA PRAIRIE FARM.
JUST A BIT MORE OF TRUE HISTORY behind this old farm being a "Sabbath Farm":
How would they accomplish that? We know how they did it. They established their whole operation on the Sabbath. From Monday to the Sabbath they worked to be ready for keeping the Sabbath holy. Despite all the demands and regimen of daily chores, the children were instructed in holiness and right behavior and love for God and respect for God's commandments and obedience and humility shown all those God put in positions and roles over them.
Right away, the naysayer or skeptic reacts with, "Ridiculous! Nobody does that, and it could not be done anyway!"
You do not know anything essential about Plain View Farm and its family the Stadems, friend!
I am not claiming that this devotion to God's commandment to keep the Sabbath holy was followed in all the families that came out from the main stem, nor am I claiming that the majority of the Stadem Descendants have anymore the slightest idea what holiness and the Sabbath and a Holy God mean, though they sometimes sing in their churches the historic hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy!"
I am stating the absolute truth, that the Stadems practiced a rigorous, faithful Sabbath preparation that culminated every Sunday with them in church, fully prepared worship and give thanks to God, and ready to serve God and man and to receive the saving Word of God preached from the pulpit and declared from the open Bible.
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,
immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
What was going to be his response to terrible tragedy in his own close home circle? Read his own words: Papa Alfred Stadem's letter concerning the Events of 1947, involving the plane crash and deaths of his eldest son, Arthur,
a WWII navy vet in his early twenties, and his son-in-law Bob Ginther, family man with six children (a seventh coming 9 months after his death) and wife Pearl:
Note that encouraging things do happen in the midst of what seems a total disaster: Alida Spilde's Norwegian language Bible may have been found by Stephen Stadem in the ruins of their beautiful home which recently burned. A very large but partly damaged volume in the Norwegian language was found. I believe it is the one Alida Spilde possessed, and which her daughter Eloise donated to the Farm. I will be able to tell by the surviving illustrations, as I took a number of pictures of them.
On this "commemorative cup" he created and so thoughtfully sent to us, Steve is pictured holding the huge book that somehow survived the fire and the deluge of water poured on it by the fire trucks. On the cup is the inscription: "Start Each Day With a Grateful Heart," and there is also a picture of Ron Ginther with the Flag of Israel, a photo that also survived the fire."
3. Please also return Pearl Ginther's Memorial items last housed in the master bedroom of the house! 4. And the Green Railroad trunk in the utility room was a very old Ginther artifact, full of Pearl Ginther's records and Ginther family films. Please return them to the Ginthers even if you do not want them on the property for some reason, okay?
5. Mim Rinderknecht's piano donated to the Stadem reunion attendees has also been missing for some years now, and needs to be returned to her or to the farm.
6. Ron Ginther's easy-learning organ also has been missing and needs to be returned.
There are other items as well that are missing, but we have pictures of them, so we have records and will continue the search and inquiry after them.--Ed.
The on-line archived Stadem Samtaleran Collection is being updated to include the issues by year of 1971, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 (2 letters), 1993, 1995, 1996 (with three parts: Part I, the Bryant Dakotan article about the Reunion 1996, Part II: The Samtaleran about the coming Reunion 1996, and Part III: Bernice Schaefer's Letter telling about the 1996 Reunion!), 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, [lacking complete Samtaleran for 2008, but we have two wonderful pages identified from it], 2008 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 (the succeeding issues were digitized and emailed to the subscribers and can be sent to anyone on request to Aanna Chase). Please contact this website editor first:
ronaldginther42@yahoo.com
Gloria Brown has yet another fascinating trip as a notch in her travel belt to tell us about:
Reghan Brown (12 going on 13 years of age), of Sioux Falls, Great-granddaughter of Pearl A. Ginther, won the scholarship award of $250 for her timeline and explanatory essay at the 2018 Centennial Reunion!:
From this volume, in our Plain View Farm heritage 40+-volume Archives at the Farm in the Heritage Barn, we have given the name of a pastor who bore the name of Stadem, who might well be a First Stadem Waver.--Ed.
2. "The Old Horse and Buggy Days," On the Prairie Farms of South Dakota, by Darrell R. Ginther (e-book, $1),
3. "Nine Tales of a Lille Tupin and Tupa," an Interactive Story of Life on Old Plain View Farm, by Ronald D. Ginther (e-book, $1)
Proceeds will go to heritage projects on Plain View Farm.
Have you ever wondered what motivated our ancestors to leave Norway and travel across the Atlantic in a sailed ship, then travel by
train to Iowa?
Britta was the valiant Matriarch of the Olsons or Stadems or Stadeims or Stadheims
of the Old Country who produced our particular line. (I am so glad they dropped Olson, aren't you?--THAT TRIBE HAS ENOUGH PEOPLE IN IT!). Mother to all of us,
a true Matriarch, she was the mother
of Sjur and Knud, who had the old Viking spunk living in them and emigrated to America. We have devoted an entire
tribute to her. I am not sure there are any
extant photos or drawings of her--which is too bad, but who knows what priceless pictures were destroyed when a cyclone obliterated Sjur and Oline's house when it was under construction. All they saved from that
disaster was a single family photograph. But what they have to teach us could fill volumes. All we have is a website, to do this great work of translation. I hope
you have patience as we unfold the things they have bequeathed us in
their golden legacy. It isn't fashionable, yet it is so timely it could save us and teach us how to survive as Christians in the coming world
famine and the collapse of the present order.--Ed.
on Plain View Farm, which we called "God's Little Acres," with Picture of Peder Johan Stadem & First Wife Marie Stadem
A new and exciting development to the Archives Center will be
an Audio library! We have a video with audio already available,
two in fact. They can be accessed as soon as we post them
to the Archives page.
Another way to say it is: "If you don't know where you have been, you don't know where you are going!"
As Grandpa repeatedly testified in one way or another, his wife
was the real spiritual powerhouse and pillar of the Stadem household,
not himself. But do you know the basic facts about her, that
they weren't promising at all, in fact, were almost guaranteed
to keep her down and cause her life to be of no real significance?
That she had great handicaps to overcome even at a very
young age is revealed in this short biographical sketch:
Pearl wrote on back that the St. Olaf College entrant was training to
be a pastor, while she was a high school student, which points out how
college students back then were pitted against high school student in this contest, which wouldn't happen today. Incidentally, Barbara Jean Rothnem remained a friend lifelong of Pearl Ginther and became a singer of repute.
Lillian Heide taught at the Academy beginning Fall 1956 (U.S. History), and was the librarian until the school closed on its American campus. She was a graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. After marriage to Elmer Heide, the family moved from California so that the children could attend the Academy. Arden (1954), Margaret (1956), Marian (1960), and Sharon (1962), all graduated from A.A.
Update on Marian Heide, my classmate at AA: She has passed from this life to eternal life, and we will have a tribute to her on the Academy pages.--Ed.
Both Jerry & his Mother, Pearl, Graduated to Heaven, Jerry Entering the Pearly Gates in first week of July, Preceded by Mother Pearl Entering the Pearly Gates on April 30, 2011; Darrell Also Entering Soon After Jerry August 13, 2011
Framed Print of Watercolor by Stephen Stadem,
Used to Raise Funds for the New Heritage Barn Project
If she wasn't, how do you explain these facts away? I cannot. You have the job if you like.
As a young woman, as she related to me many years later, she was losing her hair and in danger of going bald. Her hair was very fine, and thin, and a picture of two show her thin hair. She looked so unlike other pictures, where her hair was growing again, or had not yet thinned out.
Growing very concerned, she prayed to God, "Lord, if you will regrow my hair, I will never cut it."
Her hair regrew, and though fine, it was thick way into her advanced age, when she lost it all due to a doctor's use of an antibiotic in connection with her eye trouble with cataracts.
Twice the same prescription caused her to lose her hair and a lot of skin too, when the doctor failed to take our warning about what the first prescription had done to her.
Her daughters-in-law pressed her to go to a beauty parlor and cut and perm it, but she would never do that, she held firmly to her vow to God.
She never discarded what she combed out when the prescriptions took her hair. We have it still in bags.
Mother also, like a Nazirite, did not drink wine. She took only Communion wine. Pressed to take glasses of wine even at family get-togethers, she declined, and she was made subject to considerable jokes at her expense, but she again held firm.
As for not touching dead bodies, Mother touched many living people in praying for them and administering wonderful back-rubs. Dead bodies? She never washed any dead person, that we know of, in preparation for burial.
Do Old Testament, so-called, vows have any validity today in the Church Age of Grace? In Mother's case, they certainly do in the case of her vow to God concerning her hair loss, as there is no real division between the Old and New Testaments, and the Old Covenant regarding Israel and its land and is still in force, though the New Covenant in Christ['s Blood has superseded it.
"I'm so proud of Darrell as he truly feels led of the Lord, and shares the Lord in scripture, word and gospel song as he is out picking up pop cans for the Tacoma Seafarers Mission, where he works once a week. After the Lord delivered him of his mental problem, he loves calling me, and we feel truly blessed having our devotions and prayer over the telephone every morning. Children and their parents will ask him to sing gospel hymns wherever they see him, and they truly let him know how much they enjoy it. Winning souls has been his joy."--Pearl Ginther
Is there a Cross on Plain View Farm
ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING REUNION 2022 ON THE Farm:
Peter Stadem has informed me that the attendance is way down, so there will not be a regular reunion, and instead they will do work projects. You may still go, but know that there will be no planned activities and programs or meals, as there would be during a regular reunion on an evwen-numbered year. I do hope this is not going to continue, but this is the case for now. No word on what the work projects are, but I would think there is always an opportunity for anyone to volunteer a helping hand or stuirdy back! Is work on a farm ever really finished? If you wish to contact anyone concerning a visit or volunteer work, Peter Stadem will hear whatever you wish to confer, and relay it to the appropriate person if he cannot answer your question.
THREE HEAVENLY HOMEGOINGS:
"Three Heavenly Home-goings of Vernon and Barbara Benson & Celinda Templeton Lehner
"Three More Heavenly Home-goings of Calvin Clain Taylor, Chad Paul Rinderknecht, and Mrs. Phil Wellington" in Progress
For now let us say just a few thi>ngs, as the article is not ready for viewing. The latest Samtaleran carries the information about these three loved ones. If you do not get t he Samtaleran, we will try to get it posted in a link at least for you. The tributes in it and the notice by Dan Price concerning Phil Wellington's wife, are worth your reading, to be sure, as much care was taken. The Samtaleran is sent out by Aanna Stadem Chase, so you will need to send an email to her to post your email address on her listing in order to receive Samtalerans. I am surprised how many do not receive it, but want it! I have sent the latest Samtaleran on request to three people myself who are in my own email orbit.. God bless!--Ed.
WORD ABOUT OUR KINSMAN-REDEEMER, TOM HARRINGTON, AS OUR FORERUNNER OF JESUS CHRIST, OUR GREAT KINSMAN-REDEEMER:
TOM HARRINGTON OUR STADEM KINSMAN-REDEEMER
A TRIBUTE TO PEARL'S NIECE, MIM RINDERKNECHT, WHO PASSED TO GLORY MID SEPTEMBER ACCOMPANIED BY MANY, MANY ANGELS NO DOUBT:
Mim with Rose Bouquet, June 2020, Park City, Utah, at her home
"The Master's Heart," A Tribute to Mim Rinderknecht, a New Year's Bouquet, by Cousin Ron Ginther
AFTER EXPLORING THIS INTRODUCTORY PAGE, GO FOR PART 1 of This First Home Page:
HOME PAGE PART 1
GOD'S TWO MAIN CONTROVERSIES WITH US 21st CENTURY STADEM DESCENDANTS:
"God's Two Main Controversies With the Stadem Descendants, by Ron Ginther
Danish pastry, this is not! This is a smorgasbord like none other!
"Babette's Feast, Classic Danish Film featured in OUR DAILY WORD, Oct. 2019
CANCEL CULTURE HAS ARRIVED IN FULL FLOWER AND IS DESTROYING GOOD WITH THE BAD HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY:
As we do not look approvingly on this movement, which is extreme and sadly misguided in our view, we have to speak out as it is responsible for tearing down valuable, historical and cultural monuments tha t do not agree, in the view of the movement's adherents and leaders, with their far left agenda and philosophy. Why should monuments be destroyed by what appears to be a small but very verbal and highly publicized minority? They are breaking the laws in most cases, in destruction of public property, yet they are not be prosecuted as we see the protestors at the Capitol in January are being rigorously and severely punished in the courts. Why these two standards? Frankly, the American leadership is both supportive of this cancel culture and its radical followers or is intimidate to the extent they order police and authorities everywhere across America to stand down when the destruction is going on in cities and communities. Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota, we are proud to say here, is not one of those who will stand down to violent groups breaking the law of the land for a political agenda. God, we pray, will bring these people to justice just as those who destroyed property in the Capitol protest after the election turned warong in their view have been brought to justice. If they succeed in eluding justice, due to the support of lhigh up officials, they do not escape from God's judgment against lawless individuals. Below these comments, look and see one victim of Cancel Culture and how unfair and misguided the mob was (for it was a mob wantonlyi destroying a noble monument in Wisconsin while the police were clearly ordered to stand down and do nothing to save it or take the perpetrators into custody as they certainly should have been.--Ed..
HURRAH FOR HEG, HE WAS A GOOD OLE EGG!
WHO WAS HEG? HANS CHRISTIAN HEG, NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HERO AND ABOLITIONIST CHAMPION, HIS MEMORY AND MEMORIAL AT THE STATE CAPITAL OF WISCONSIN DESECRATED WHLE THE CAPITOL POLICE APPARENTLY STOOD SHAMEFULLY DOWN BEFORE A LAWLESS MOB:
Wisconsin has cancelled its most glorious son's achievements and legacy and created a dark gap where he once stood in the state's Hall of Fame! He was a Norwegian immigrant, who emigrated in 1840. He became a leading abolitionist in Wisconsin. But he was no armchair abolitionist. He fought in the Civil War to free and emancipate the slaves,
"walked the talk," in short.
STUTTER YOUR WAY TO BLISS WITH THIS GREAT SONG:
SOUTH DAKOTA WE LOVE YOU BEST
HAIL YOUR WAY TO GRATITUDE WITH THIS SONG:
HAIL, SOUTH DAKOTA
Songbook donated to our Heritage Archives by Sylvia Fjelstad Yuge
Extension Mimeographed Circular #410, SOUTH DAKOTA SINGS,
Another song for the old Farm and the circle of loved ones round the campfire:, where can love your way to a little foretaste of heaven's fellowship:
Love's Old Sweet Song" (with stanzas 2 & 3
by Ron Ginther"
WE HAVE BEEN RICHLY BLESSED AND HONORED BY THREE CENTENARIANS SO FAR, AND CELEBRATED A CENTENNIAL ON THE FARM THAT INCLUDED THE HOUSE IN 2018, BUT SOUTH DAKOTA HAD ITS CENTENNIAL, CELEBRATED in 1986:
Pastor Leroy Stadem's Centennial 1986 Message in Bryant, SD, Centennial Community Worship, Recorded by Ruth Stadem Harrington
FOCUS ON LEROY STADEMS OUR LAST MOHICANS OF THE IMMEDIATE ALFRED AND BERGIT STADEM FAMILY:
LeRoy and Elizabeth Stadem observed their 65th wedding anniversary August 6. Here is a listing of files featuring LeRoy, Elizabeth, and family:
Nine More Feathers in Their Caps
SOMEHOW CAN'T FORGET HER SMILE AND SWEET AND QUIET, ONE OF A KIND SPIRIT: SPOTLIGHT ON A KINDLY, SWEET, QUIET SOUL:
Grace Shubert Svanoe's last words and last prayers
"When a Dove is Praying,"
"Help us find our way,"
WE LOOK FOR ANOTHER BUILDING PERMIT IN THE NEAR FUTURE, FRIENDS! ONE THAT WILL PERMIT A DRAMATIC ARTS STUDIO FOR THE SHARING OF OUR STADEM HERITAGE WITH THE COMMUNITY AND ALL ROUND THE NORTH PLAINS!
FRIEND, RELATIVE, SURFING GUEST, ARE YOU WONDERING WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT? FRIENDS AND FAMILY TOO WILL FAIL YOU. YOUR CAREER OR JOB WILL FAIL YOU. YOUR HEALTH MAY FAIL. BUT THERE IS STILL AN ANSWER, THE SAME THAT GRACE SHUBERT SVANOE WAS GIVEN AT THE CLOSE OF HER LIFE.
A Cross Has Come to Plain View Farm,"
by Ron Ginther
Well, friend, how about it? Which road will you choose to take? The road less travelled by that leads to the narrow gate that opens to Eternal Life, or the wide highway the multitude races down that leads to eternal perdition and death? This is not preaching to you from a pulpit, it comes from one who has been on the wrong road and knows the right road when he was intercepted by the Lord in the mid 1970s and set on the right road!--Ed.
HEY, ALL YOU SAVVY TECHIES, WHAT IS "PERDITION" ANYWAY, YOU MIGHT WONDER. WHY TAKE THE NARROW ROAD OF THE GODLY? WHY NOT THE WORLD'S INTERSTATE AND SUPER-EXPRESSWAY, WHICH WE ALL KNOW AS THE INTERNET? WAIT A MINUTE. SEE IF THE "NARROW WAY" JESUS TALKED ABOUT IN FOLLOWING HIM DOESN'T PRODUCE SOME WONDERFUL LIVES. BEFORE YOU SPEED DOWN THE HIGH SPEED INTERNET HIGHWAY TO PERDITION, YOU JUST MIGHT WANT TO TURN AROUND AND HEAD BACK TO THE TURN TO THE NARROW WAY:
"In Years Past," The Compass for Living, by Estelle Rangen and Ron Ginther
"Christ Our Harrow," Breaking Our Hearts' Crusty Soils, by Ron Ginther
PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER?
"There's a Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On!", by Ron Ginther
HOW ALMIGHTY GOD IS MIGHTILY BRINGING GREAT GOOD OUT OF WHAT SEEMS BAD:
"Call To Fence Straddlers," by Ron Ginther
"Our Fences (Traditions/Heritage) Make Us Good Neighbors," by Ron Ginther
Norway's Greatest Evangelist would be greater than any now on the world evangelical scene! He changed his whole nation in his generation, and the repercussions continued from his ministry to bring a constitution that enshrined liberties that would have kept Norway free for hundreds of years, the very liberties that are now being thrown away by an aggressive secular humanist, Darwinian culture that is determined to re-introduce authoritarian government and a welfare statism which controls every aspect of life and society. So sorry for Norway! Right now you cannot believe differently from the official party line, as laws have been passed that will either result in fines for contradicting the party line, or even jail you.
Devotion Based on Norway's Greatest Evangelist, Hans Nielsen Hauge, Reprinted
"The Need of the World," by Dave Breeze, Reprint Article in the Mennonite "The Sword and the Trumpet," 1979
HAVE YOU LOST LOVED ONES LATELY, OR POSSIBLY STAND TO LOSE A LOVED ONE BEFORE TOO LONG? I KNOW THAT LOSS, IT IS SOMETHING I LIVE WITH DAILY TOO, SO I UNDERSTAND YOUR LOSS AND THE CROSS IN IT:
"Daybreak," My Hope for Reunion, by Ron Ginther
"How Could You?", My Questions for the Crucified, Now Risen Christ, by Ron Ginther
EMINENT SCANDINAVIANS SERIES ANNOUNCED, WITH FIRST PAGE OFFERED TO ENJOY:
DO NOT LET NPR OR ANY OTHER SOCIALIST MEDIA PLATFORM REVISE HISTORY TO THE POINT WHERE THESE HEROES ARE ANTI-HEROES. I HAVE SEEN IT DONE IN A VIDEO ALREADY.
Norwegian Heroes
And, often as we can, pointing out Connections with these Eminent Scandinavians and, in our unequivocal view, the equally eminent Alfred Stadem and his daughter Pearl of Plain View Farm!
EMINENT SCANDINAVIANS SERIES
TO LIGHTEN THINGS UP A BIT:
Norwegian Sayings, by Vanberg [with Ron Ginther's two wooden krone added to the wealth of Norsk wisdom literature]
Greater Saints than Billy Graham Among or Lately Among US?
"Greater Saints Among Us," by Ron Ginther
TRUE SAINTS DO NOT TAKE THEMSELVES TOO SERIOUSLY, AS IN THIS SKETCH OF PAPA ALFRED STADEM CLOWNING WITH A HORSE HALTER:
DID YOU ENJOY THIS FIRST PART OR INTRODUCTORY OF THE PLAIN VIEW HERITAGE FARM? WE HONESTY BEGAN BY INFORMING YOU THAT WE WOULD OFFER BOTH TRAGEDY AND VICTORY AND SUNSHINE AND RAIN, FOR WE OFFER YOU THE ANSWER WITH THE TRAGEDY, CHRIST AND HIS EMERALD RAINBOW IN THE RAIN.
PLAIN VIEW HERITAGE FARM HOME PAGE 1
PLAIN VIEW HERITAGE FARM HOME PAGE 2
PLAIN VIEW HERITAGE FARM HOME PAGE 3
PLAIN VIEW HERITAGE FARM HOME PAGE 4
Or:
PLAIN VIEW FARM ON ANGELFIRE
And:
PRAIRIE FARM ON ANGELFIRE
ANNOUNCING NEW UPDATED PRAIRIEFARM PAGES ON ANGELFIRE.COM NOW MOSTLY AVAILABLE:
Alfred and Bergit Stadem dedicated the farm to the glory of God, it was not just a piece of property they owned that would give them and their family a living if they worked it hard enough. No! The purpose and meaning of the farm and everything done there was for the glory of God. That is a nice phrase many Christians like to parrot, but they were not parroting a nice religious phrase, they absolutely meant it, and they were determined to accomplish it with God's strength, mercy, grace, and guidance. THEY WOULD USE PLAIN VIEW FARM TO GLORIFY GOD! Period!
Phil Wellington's First Sermon, on Sabbath-Keeping and Sabbath-Breaking, Republished by Permission
But we have the Prairiefarm recollections for you now just a click away in Angelfire.com, and if some link you find there aren't working yet, others will, and we are working still on getting the pages fully operational with all pages linked for easy access. Please enjoy what you can access, as these are rare views into the Farm and its family in days of yore that you surely would not want to miss
Prairie Farm Home Page
Prairie Farm Intro
Ruth's Tribute to Papa
Estelle's Recollections of Papa and Life on the Farm
Estelle's Cameo Portraits of Papa & Mama
Cora's Recollections
WHEN TIMES ARE HARD, EVEN UNBEARABLE, DAY AFTER DAY, ARE YOU AND I JUSTIFIED IN COMPLAINING?
Be sure and go to Estelle's recollections and cameo portraits, and you will find a quote from Papa Alfred Stadem (who had a family and farm and had to make it through the years of catastrophic Drought, Dust-storms, and Great Depression of the 1930s, not to mention the tragic, sudden deaths of his eldest son and his son-in-law in a plane crash. The quote is given in the narrative of Papa's daughter is about
complaining that should stick with you in these hard times we are experiencing with the corona virus crisis hysteria and government lockdowns of businesses and public venues and even Christian church meetings and singing of hymns in California.
Quoting Papa Alfred Stadem on Complaining During Adversity
These verses were known to Papa and Mama Stadem in all their Christian lives, and seem to speak to us here, and particularly now as we face great adversity due to the corona virus hysteria and its world-wide shut-downs of airports, stores and widespread losses of jobs along with lock-downs of whole countries, with airports and road border closures stopping incoming and outgoing traffic:
1st Corinthians 15: 55, 56, 57, 58
"O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?
If you are not in God's flock, turn to him now, confess your
sin, ask his forgiveness, plead the Shed Blood he shed for you for the forgiveness of all your sins, and
thereby
become his sheep the way he has set forth: Scripture says: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.
"O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"--Ist Corinthians15:55
January 9th, 1947, my father and young uncle stepped into Eternity in just a few seconds in the plunge of a plane to earth and a fiery crash, only 13 minutes after
take-off in a plane my dad was buying from what we believe was an unscrupulous aircraft dealer who
knowingly sold my Dad a malfunctioning plane he had not had fixed, though pressing Dad to take it up.:
"Accident Kills Two Hunters", Newspaper Article, 1947
Bob Ginther's Bio, Unknown Author
Awful good thing Papa Alfred Stadem had such strong faith in God, respecting God's will above his own, and was no complainer in adversity!
Papa Alfred Stadem's Letter Concerning Events of 1947
A SON OF BOB GINTHER REFLECTS ON THE TRAGIC LOSS OF HIS FATHER AFTER SEVENTY-THREE YEARS (AND STILL SEEMS TO HIM LIKE YESTERDAY!):
"The Missing Piece of the Puzzle," Part I and Part II, by Ron Ginther
YOUR WEBSITE EDITOR ON A BORROWED BLUE OX AND PLOW:
2020 and Onward: A 21st Century EPIC Saga in the Making:
The following displays set up in a home in Park City, Utah, 2012, will give you a good idea, as they picture
the heritage items in a 9 by 9 space, walled on two sides only in the
corner of a dining room. Recognize any of the items? We wish we could
give you an itemized account of these treasures, but there are just too many items to
do that. The pictures overall will give you the idea how a single, rather small space or enclosed
room in the Heritage Center may look, which is the
purpose of showing them. We trust in God to lead and provide.--Ed.
ENJOY THE HERITAGE SMORGASBORD ON "THE TABLES OF JOY"
THE INTRODUCTORY (OR FRONT DOOR TO "THE GOOD WAY"
"The Front Door or Gateway to the Good Way to Go," by Ron Ginther
ASKING THE SPEEDY RETURN OF SPECIAL HERITAGE ITEMS:
1. Missing Alida Stadem Spilde's Norwegian Language Bible Donated to Heritage on the Farm by Daughter
Alida's Bible in the Norwegian language needs to be returned and put under glass in a case. It is understandable that things are moved for valid reasons, but they can be returned and should be. These things are precious to Mim, the Spilde Families, and also the Ginthers. No questions and no explanations asked on return, just "Mange tusen tak!"
2. As of November 2019
Ruth Stadem's dozens of very interesting photo albums have disappeared from the Farm, however, and anyone knowing their whereabouts or possessing them, please return them for viewing by Stadem Descendants.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT AT THE 2010 REUNION:
Centenarian and Stadem-Ginther Matriarch Pearl Ginther Praying for the Restoration of the Once Vital Haugean Tradition and the Spirit of the Lutheran Fellowship League on Plain View Farm
NOW LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL! THE STADEM DESCENDANTS' MISSION OF ALWAYS "PUSHING THE EGG SHELL" EXEMPLIFIED FOR 100 YEARS BY CENTENARIAN & EPIC LETTER WRITER PEARL STADEM GINTHER ON HER GLIDER FLIGHT WITH PILOT SON!
Introduction, or Front Door to the Plain View Heritage Farm's Good Way &
Website:
Introduction, or Front Door, to
Plain View Farm & Its Future
WHY THIS WEBSITE STARTED:
"Why This Website Started"
HELEN JEANNE VAN SICKLE'S HOMEGOING TO HEAVEN, SEPT. 22, 2019, AT AGE 95. HER FAMILY SENT THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT. (HELEN WAS THE OLDEST STADEM DESCENDANT AFTER CORA TAYLOR AND PEARL GINTHER. THE DAUGHTER OF SEVER STADEM AND SARAH STADEM OF HENRY, SD., AND SEVER AND ALFRED STADEM WERE BROTHERS.)
Helen Jeanne (Stadem) Van Sickle's Homegoing, Sept. 22, 2019
The original 12 (of a series that now numbers over 37) Jam-Packed Archives Filler Notebooks Hold Pearl's precious PVF Records,
Documents, Recordings, Videotapes, Pictures, & Cards & Letters
for all the PVF Stadem Families, early 1900s to Present, Added to Until There are Now as of 2020, 40, and Counting:
Plain View Farm Heritage Archives Center
IS IT WITH AN "E" OR AN "A"--OUR PREVIOUS GREAT SAMTALEREN/SAMTALERAN FOUNDER AND EDITOR USED BOTH, SO WE WILL TOO, IN CASE YOU ARE WONDERING ABOUT THE VARIANT SPELLINGS!
SAMTALERAN LOVERS:
NEWLY POSTED REUNIONS AND TRULY FASCINATING ACCOUNTS OF THEM:
Stadem Reunion 1996, in Three Parts, With Special Appeal to Stadem Families to Fund Finishing of Heritage Barn
Stadem Reunion 1997, in Three Parts:
Parts I & II: Stadem Reunion 1997 in Samtaleren, Dec. 1997
Part III, Stadem Reunion 1997 Business Meeting Minutes, Events, Updates about Birth Increases and Family Events
Latest submissions:
Stadems' and Bernice Schaefer's Letters to Pearl on Reunion 1990
Stadem Reunion 1998
Stadem Reunion 1999, in Samtaleran
Stadem Reunion 2000, in Samtaleran and BRYANT DAKOTAN
Stadem Reunion 2001 in Samtaleran and BRYANT DAKOTAN
Stadem Reunion 2002 in BRYANT DAKOTAN, July 2002
"Stadem Reunion 2004 in BRYANT DAKOTAN & the Samtaleran
Stadem Reunion 2005 in Samtaleran, April 2005
Stadem Reunion 2006 in March 2006 Samtaleran
Stadem Reunion 2007 in Samtaleran
Stadem Reunion 2008, in Samtaleran (2 pages)
"Norway, the Land of Our Roots," 2008 Ginther Families Trip, Account by Gloria Brown
Stadem Reunion 2009, Two Samtalerens, With Rennard Svanoe's Article of the Reunion for the Bryant Dakotan
Stadem Reunion 2010, Samtalerens, April, May, and September
Stadem Reunion 2011, Samtaleren 2011
Stadem Reunion, Sept. 2011, in Samtaleran, in Progress
BR-R-R-R-R! ICELAND ANYONE?
"Iceland, Land of Fire & Ice, by Gloria June Ginther Brown, A Challenging Trip Shared By Mother & Daughter
PLEASE GO FOR THE COMPLETE LISTING OF THE POSTED REUNION SAMTALERANS AND BRYANT DAKOTAN ARTICLES:
Stadem Reunion Central
STADEM REUNION NEWSLETTER EDITORSHIP PASSED TO STADEM DESCENDANT & GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF ALFRED AND BERGIT:
BERNICE AUGUSTA STADEM SCHAEFER, SHINING SAINT IN HEAVEN, BORN FROM JERUSALEM ABOVE BUT, WAS A SHINING SAINT ON EARTH, HERE IN THE COSY PLAIN VIEW FARM KITCHEN WITH SOME OF HER 30 HOME-BAKED LOAVES OF SUPERB BREAD! BERNICE WAS BORN 107 YEARS AGO, SHE PASSED BACK TO GLORY OCTOBER 2000 AT THE RIPE AGE OF 89, AND HER BIRTHDATE TO REMEMBER IS MARCH 18, 1911, ONE YEAR BEFORE THE ONSET OF WWI. BLESSED BE HER MEMORY!
CALLING THE YOUNGER GENERATION, OUR INTREPID YOUNG PEOPLE, TO INVOLVE THEIR LIVES IN OUR GREAT HERITAGE--THE PEARL GINTHER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD ESSAYS FOR JUNE 17, 2017; THE PEARL GINTHER ESSAY SCHOLARSHIP AWARD FOR 2018
Awards and Essays, 2016
For the website editor's remarks and observations on the essays concerning the larger context of Stadem heritage and its re-discovery, go to:
Essay Awards
Essay Awarded Prize for 2018:
Reghan Brown Essay, 2018
STADEM "BARNATOPSIS" TIMELINE COMPOSED BY THE PLAIN VIEW FARM FAMILIES:
This "Plain View Heritage Barn Timeline" of the United Stadem/Holbeck
Lines and Plain View Farm's
history was presented to the
Reunion 2012 gathering, stretching from the late 19th century to
the early 21st Century:
Plain View Farm Timeline, 19th century to 21st century
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED IF OUR STADEM LINE WASN'T THE FIRST STADEM
LINE TO SET UP IN AMERICA? WELL, DEAN STADEM, SON OF PETER GORDON STADEM,
SON OF SEVERT STADEM, RESEARCHED THIS AND FOUND:
"Dean Stadem's Letter
Moreover, an old volume in the Plain View Farm house (cannot say if it is still there or not) has listed along with pictures all the churches and pastors and histories of the early Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and some Stadems are listed, and they are not of the line of Sjur and Oline nor of the other lines we know of. They could well have come from the 1793 migration of the First Wave of Stadems.
THE DANO-NORWEGIAN HOLBEK ROOT OF NORWAY NOURISHING THE STADEM/HOLBECK "OAK TREE" IN AMERICA:
"Holbek Root in Norway," by Arne Age Holbek, Kristiansand, Norway
Holbek Lineage Remembered
Operating a Bible Bookstore, Wife Dagny and Lay Minister Andreas Holbek, Norway, with Family
"Andreas Holbek's Letter to Estelle Stadem Rangen and Pearl Stadem Ginther, 1983
Some American Holbeck Descendants: Little Carolyn Lundring (Roberts), Granddaughter and Parents (Larry Lundring and wife--with lace) and Grandparents (Tena Holbeck Lundring and Albinus Lundring, in yard of Canton, SD. home
Carolyn Lundring Roberts's Letter to All Loved Ones, Feb. 2010, Samtaleran (Stadem Conversation Newsletter
LATELY A DONATION FROM THE LUNDRINGS FOR THE DIGITIZING OF THE REUNION VIDEOS IS REMINISCENT OF AN EARLIER DONATION FROM GINTHERS AND OTHER STADEM FAMILIES TO A LUNDRING INITIATED PROJECT:
Brother to Larry, Axel Lundring's Letter to Pearl Ginther Concerning Telephone Project in Brazil called "Christmas in May Solicitation"
"Missionary Cora Stadem Taylor's Missionary Letter to Holbek Relations in Norway
Bergit Wilhelmine (Holbeck) Stadem Reading the ANDREAS HOLBEK Bible?
"Grandma's Old Wooden Mixing Bowl," a new poem for you on the bowl that Grandma used to mix dough for over 3,500 loaves or more!
"Grandma's Old Wooden Mixing Bowl," from Lorin Ginther Rambling on Memory Lane, composed by Ron Ginther
The beautiful faces of our loved ones will be even more beautiful in heaven above!
"Beautiful Faces, Beautiful Smiles," by Ron Ginther
ANNOUNCING NEW COMMEMORATIVE STADEM FAMILIES HERITAGE SERIES ABOUT PLAIN VIEW FARM ON AMAZON KINDLE:
Go to: Kindle on Amazon.com
1. "Myrtle's Letters," by Myrtle Stadem Svanoe (e-book, $1)
NEW MEMORIALS PAGE FOR THREE STADEM DESCENDANTS WHO PASSED TO GLORY 2018:
Memorials for Joyce Bassett, Russ Del Von Schaefer, and Marc Latimer Svanoe, the three Stadem Descendants who passed to Glory in 2018
HOW DID THE STADEMS AND THEIR SAGA OF VALOROUS, EXPLORING SPIRIT AND SUPERLATIVE, CHRISTLIKE SERVANTHOOD GET STARTED?
"Oline and Sjur to America," by Stadem genealogist, Barbara Vorseth Benson
Oline Madsdatter Vikoren and Pearl Andrina Stadem Ginther's Amazing Dates
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT "THE GOOD WAY", OUR HERITAGE?
"Sjur of Stadheim," a Tribute to Sjur and Oline, by their Gr Gr Grandson, Ronald Ginther
"Stadems Sail to America," Part II of "Sjur of Stadheim"
DO YOU KNOW WHO MOTHER BRITTA WAS? AND WHY SHOULD YOU EVEN CARE?
Tribute to Britta, the Pillar, by Ron Ginther, her Gr Gr Gr Grandson, Ron Ginther
Tribute to Peder and Gurina, by their Gr Gr Grandson, Ron Ginther
HOW EVERY LIFE, HOWEVER BRIEF, IS SIGNIFICANT, EVEN VITAL, IN GOD'S PLAN, AS SCRIPTURE ATTESTS:
Tribute to Two Oles, by Ron Ginther
Descendants of Knudt Staim/Stadheim's Line Found in Puyallup, Washington!
Descendants of Knudt Stadem Line Found by Sylvia Fjelstad Yuge, Genealogist for Stadems
Estelle Stadem Rangen Composing Her Sparkling, Articulate, Ginger-Spiced Heritage Account
WARNING: Whenever you come close to Plain View Farm Heritage, It may stick to you like a magnet!
"Without a Vision, the People Perish!"--For "Our Vision for the Future", with Vital Foundational Scriptural Support & Guidance & Empowerment, go to:
"Our Vision for the Future"--The Pumping Up Scriptural Basis for our Heritage Preservation & Sharing of It
Devotional Message Based on Norway's premier Gospel Preacher, Writer, and Evangelist, Hans Nielsen Hauge:
"Stubborn or Committed," Devotional message from "Christ In Our Home," Thursday, March 29, 2012, Based on Hans Nielsen Hauge
"All Are Welcome," Suggested Theme Song for Plain View Heritage Farm and Heritage Center!
The Introduction for the whole Plain View Farm website is
here:
The "Front Door" Introduction to
Our Plain View Farm Heritage
Rennard Stadem's Article about the
2012 Reunion and Stadem Matriarch, Pearl A. Ginther:
"Stadem Matriarch Remembered," by Pearl's Nephew Rennard Svanoe, with
appended tribute by Pearl's Son, Ron Ginther
This Introductory to the four Home Pages is not large enough to include all the items we have
already on-line, so this heritage center archives page is
taking the overflow. Soon that page will be full as well
and we will have to add many pages to it as
time goes on, God willing, and we still have
opportunity to record our golden heritage on them.
Plain View Heritage Archives Center
RECORDINGS AND VIDEOTAPES FOR YOUR
ENJOYMENT AND LEARNING ABOUT HERITAGE:
"Heritage", Videotape of the Heritage Saving Project on Plain View Farm, by Jerry Ginther in 2008, with Ron Ginther (and after his rather too long exposition, the sweet
cameo appearance of Pearl Ginther in support of the Heritage Project),
WHAT IS HERITAGE?
THE BIBLE TELLS US PRESERVING AND PASSING ON "THE GOOD WAY," THE GODLY HERITAGE WE INHERITED
TO SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS IS VITAL:
Jeremiah 6:16: Thus saith the LORD, stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls."
WHAT IS A "HERITAGE FARM"? WHY "HERITAGE"? WHY NOT JUST "PLAIN VIEW FARM"?
INTRO TO HERITAGE: THE WHAT AND WHY OF HERITAGE, Shared Views by Ronald Ginther
Leroy Stadem wrote down his wonderful account of the various
farm buildings and pieces of equipment and how they used them, which is absolutely fascinating when you see how they
came about, each in response to a very real need..
Leroy Stadem's Accounts of the Plain View Farm's Buildings & Equipment & Uses Made of Them
Wedding Guests (nearly all Stadems and Descendants) Gathered at Madison, Wisconsin motel for Leroy and Elizabeth Stadem
Papa Alfred Stadem Speaks For Himself,
Giving His Views and Reactions to the Events of
Two Challenging Years, That Included the Death of
a Special Family Friend (1946) and then the Sudden Deaths
of Their Eldest Son and a Son-In-Law in early 1947:
"Papa's Letter Concerning the Events of 1946-47", by Alfred Stadem
GRANDPA STADEM'S LETTERS FROM THE ARCHIVES:
"Grandpa Speaks For Himself," Part 1, Alfred Stadem's Letter of 1951 Expressing
His Plain Views
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GRANDMA BERGIT STADEM
"To God Be The Glory," a Biographical Sketch of Bergit Wilhelmina Holbek Stadem by Mrs. Walter Kloster, May 22, 1975, on the Occasion of Her 90th Birthday
THE STADEM FAMILY ALBUM:
"The Stadem Family Photo Album, Restored to View 2013
WHEN THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IS TRULY IN CHARGE ON PVF, IT IS A LITTLE GLORIOUS BIT OF HEAVEN ON EARTH:
"Isn't It Heaven?", A Call to Stadem Descendants to Come Home, Dedicated to Cora Stadem Taylor
WHEN CORA STADEM TAYLOR WAS NINETY-SEVEN, SHE SENT OUT THIS GREAT, GREAT LETTER TO ALL OF US:
"Cora's Letter to All Her Grandchildren, Great-Grandchildren, and Nephews and Nieces
In reply to her Daughter Carleen's questions, you'll also love her pungent comments about Sjur and Oline (She says: "Can't
recall them." Good answer, since her Great Grandpa Sjur died in 1909 and her Great Grandma Oline died in 1911, which was four or five years before she was born!), Ben and Norman Stadem, Malvin and Adolph Stadem,
Gurina Stadem (Peder's second wife), and, last but greatest, beloved Papa!
"Cora's Comments," by Cora Stadem Taylor, Age 97 Years Young
STILL AVAILABLE, FREE and ATTRACTIVE Plain View Farm Stationery Created Especially for You to Download and Use:
PLAIN VIEW FARM STATIONERY
GENEALOGICAL TIDBIT: "The Gurina Erickson & Spilde Connection!":
Gurina Erickson Stadem & Spilde Connection, by Eloise Spilde Hefty
FROM THE PVF ARCHIVES FOR SOUTH DAKOTA:
"Liberty Township History"
WANT SOME SHIVERS THAT ARE GOOD SHIVERS? FROM THE QUENCHLESS, SUPER-ABUNDANT FOUNTAIN ON THE PRAIRIE,
THE STADEM HERITAGE ARCHIVES:
Here is one artifact that ought to bring a lunar thrill:
PEARL GINTHER AND APOLLO 15 AND HER CONNECTION TO THE MEN ON THE MOON:
Pearl Ginther and Apollo 15
Mama Bergit's Favorite Song, by Eldest Daughter, Pearl Ginther
"Myrtle Svanoe's Letter to Mama," Typed but Still in the Typewriter
the Very Day
When Her Mama Went Home to Glory
BERNICE'S AND ESTELLE'S JOINT LETTER RELATING THE PASSING OF THEIR BELOVED MAMA AND CONSEQUENT EVENTS:
"Bernice's and Estelle's Letter
PICS FROM THE ARCHIVES:
Leroy Stadem by Historic Willow Creek Church,
where his dad Alfred Stadem was confirmed and where Stadem Ancestors Worshipped and Served
FROM THE ARCHIVES, A NORWEGIAN DECLAMATION CONTEST MEDAL WON BY
AUGUSTANA ACADEMY STUDENT PEARL GINTHER IN 1930: The tough, highly competitive contest set between
the premier Scandinavian colleges, St. Olaf College of Northfield, Minnesota,
and Augsburg College of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Augustana Academy,
a parochial high school, showed that while not winning first place, how well a Christian academy's two female
students could do against men from elite colleges such as these, with
Pearl Stadem and Barbara Jean Rothnem winning Second and Sixth
places respectively. The clipping from a paper states: "WIN MORE PRIZES--
Canton--Barbara Jean Rothnem and Pearl Stadem, Augustana academy's entrants in the National Sigvald Qvale Norse declamation contest, won second and sixth places respectively. The contest was held in "Mindekirken" in Minneapolis, Saturday evening. A student from St. Olaf college, Northfield, Minn., won first and one from Augsburg (rest of clipping missing).
FROM THE ARCHIVES/LIBRARY, THESE COFFEE-SPILLING BOOKS:
VALUABLE BOOK DONATIONS TO PVF ARCHIVES LIBRARY: This valuable book of our Norwegian immigrational history is donated to PVF by Rennard Svanoe from his own library. A great picture of
life aboard the Hellig Olav, the steamship that brought Bergit Holbeck and Katrine
her sister over to America in 1903, shows us how it looked on the main deck with the passengers all out taking the sun and fresh air. A voyage to America from Norway used to take 7 weeks on a sailing vessel, but the steamship can make it in less than a week! Steamships are also clean and full of conveniences
that were undreamt of aboard sailed vessels. It was a great improvement, indeed,
when the Age of Steam arrived to transform shipping round the world. The quality of life zoomed upwards for both crew and passengers. Even though immigrants were not the richest people, they were treated far better on the
20th century steamships than
people had been treated on the extremely cramped sailed ships. It is interesting to wonder how Bergit and Katrine reacted to the marvels of
these modern, mechanical giants, things they had only heard of, but
now were experiencing for the first time. Certainly, life aboard such
a technological wonder prepared these two Norwegian farm girls for the technological marvels of the
great city where they would soon disembark--New York City, unquestionably the queen city
of America.
This same book, which is mostly all pictures and with text in both Norwegian and English, shows the
Svanoe family operating conspicuously in high diplomatic office early on in American society, particularly in Chicago, which was a center of early Svanoe family clan enterprise.
THE BOOK JACKET FOR UTVANDRERNE TIL AMERIKA, PLUS
CONNECTIONS WITH THE STADEMS IN EVANGELICAL HAUGEANISM:
"Our Norwegian Immigrants," and Stadem Connections to Haugeanism and
his Stupendous Evangelical Revival and Faith
The Stadem Family all attended Augustana Academy, with numerous grandchildren following; this great school was faith-building and was very much administered by godly men and women in the Haugean spirit:
FOR AUGUSTANA ACADEMY ALUMNI:
AUGUSTANA ACADEMY CENTRAL
MILLENNIAL CALENDAR 1999-2000 by Ron Ginther found after being missing for some years. We had intended to hand them out at a reunion, but never made it. There are copies for 30 or so 1960 classmates of available.
What makes the calendar most meaningful to me, however, is the saint we all knew at the time, and to whom the calendar was dedicated: Lilian Heide. I will append here the Dedication:
The Augustana Academy Millennial Calendar is dedicated to the memory and example of Lillian Grace (Lee) Heide (1907-1986). Beloved mother, wife, teacher, and librarian, she exemplified in her Christian life and profession the best that could describe the sacrificial faculty and administration of the Academy over the course of many years--a leadership that trained up generations of young men and women to take meaningful, productive roles in society and church as committed Christians. All we who benefited richly from your spirit, training, encouragement, salute you, Lillian Heide! We owe you more than words can say.
FROM THE PVF ARCHIVES:
This valuable volume put Plain View Farm back on the map of Hamlin County,
thanks to Ruth and Tom Harrington! The Farm House and its
acreage had been auctioned off because no Stadem would come and farm it, but they bought
a modest manse of 13 acres with the house and outbuildings and set about
restoration of the ruins, bringing them back to life. Only the barn
continued to deteriorate, though Tom straightened its sagging
frame. Now in 2019 there is a need to finish the facility that is barnlike but serving people exclusively, and to do that we will need a push of some really generous donor that will lead the others to give until there is sufficient funds to finish what was begun in 1996. The Bible talks about the foolish man who does not count the cost and begins building but cannot finish. That will not be us! With God's motivation in the hearts, there is going to be a great outpouring of funds, we will believe, and it will take place SOON, not years down the road.
From the Archives:
Pearl, age 100, at 2010 Stadem Reunion, her last reunion attendance:
Pearl's Centennial Birthday Cake at Plain View Farm Reunion 2010:
Pearl reads to her Stadem families her own
stories of life on Plain View Farm when she was a girl:
Stadem Famillies Matriarch Pearl prays for the children after reading her
stories to them.
THIS INSCRIBED MEMORIAL CROSS FOR PEARL GINTHER'S YOUNGEST SON JERRY LEE GINTHER HAS BEEN ERECTED ON PLAIN VIEW FARM ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE HERITAGE CENTER, BARNA VELKOMMEN.
What the inscriptions mean, and how they apply to Jerry Ginther, for which the cross was made as a memorial.
"A Seed Was Sown," a Memorial Tribute to Jerry Lee Ginther, by Ron Ginther
Tribute and 49th Birthday of Jerry Ginther as First Concierge at the SeaTac Hotel
In the Plain View Farm Archives Volumes and CD/DVD Collections we have recordings of the Augsburg Male Gospel Quartet featuring the Gospel and
Sacred Music of Rennard Svanoe, Alfred Svanoe, Victor Svanoe, and Joe Nystuen, who comprised the Augsburg Gospel Quartet and toured Norway and the U.S. in 1960-1961. They were one of the greatest Augsburg quartets and sang with a truly amazing fidelity to the music and a unity of spirit that approaches a prophetic level of declaring God's Word through music and lyrics. From their record "Sacred Music Selections," this is Track #15, digitized from the vinyl record in 2017, from the Augsburg University Archives, Minneapolis, Minnesota, you can judge for yourself if this is not so or whether it is mere exaggeration to say so. Here is "At the Foot of the Cross" by the Augsburg Male Gospel Quartet, which is not only a tribute to Jerry Lee Ginther and his life of servanthood but also a call to us all to be what Christ called us to be:
AUGSBURG COLLEGE MALE GOSPEL QUARTET OF COMPRISED OF THREE DANO-NORWEGIAN STADEM DESCENDANTS AND ONE DANE SINGING A GREAT, HISTORIC HYMN
The Augsburg Male Quartet Singing "At the Foot of the Cross"
Shown here wearing her lovely paste Diamond-Starred brooch of the "Seven Churches of Asia" featured in the Book of Revelation, Pearl A. Ginther, a true woman of God used mightily by God
all her 101 years (note: the diamonds in her crowns in heaven are no longer Woolworth's paste but heaven's finest). The pin was given her by her youngest daughter Roberta, and it has recently come back to her from her late sister Joyce Bassett's estate, after being presented to her for Roberta's birthday Sept. 18, 2018.
Pearl Ginther's 75th Birthday, Tribute by Son Ronald
Pearl's Seventy-Fifth Birthday
Pearl's 101th Birthday, With Tribute by Nephew-in-grace Dan Templeton
Pearl With Heritage Picture of Plain View Farm Barn,
PEARL GINTHER WAS A NAZiRITE PER THE OLD TESTAMENT?
Darrell Ginther, with friends and Holbeck relatives Nada (Lundring) and Nelius Ronning & Daughters in Norsk Regalia
APPRECIATION FOR ELDEST STADEM GRANDSON OF ALFRED AND BERGIT STADEM, DARRELL R. GINTHER AND HIS LEGACY:
"He who is without sin cast the first stone," a reminder from Jesus, which we mention in regard to Darrell R. Ginther, who passed to glory Aug. 13, 2011. Here is his mother's "Update on Darrell" published in the Samtaleran, Feb. 2010:
EVANGELIST DARRELL R. GINTHER'S MOTHER SAYS:
DESPITE HIS BEING SEVERELY BRAIN-DAMAGED BEFORE BIRTH AND SUFFERING THE LOSS OF HIS UNBORN TWIN, DARRELL ROBERT GINTHER SURVIVED MIRACULOUSLY AND WAS PEARL AND BOB GINTHER'S ELDEST AND IN MANY WAYS MOST REMARKABLE SON. COUSIN SYLVIA YUGE'S MEMORIAL TO DARRELL GINTHER & A MOTHER'S LOVE:
Memorial to Darrell Ginther & His Mother's Love, by Cousin Sylvia Yuge
MORE ABOUT DARRELL R. GINTHER AND HIS LEGACY IN THE PRINCE OF ZION SERIES ON-LINE: If you want to find out what life-threatening challenges Darrell experienced and how it nearly caused him to be incapacitated or locked up in a mental ward for life, you are invited to go to the "Prince of Zion Series" about Darrell's life as given on these pages. This series is based in part on Darrell's own autobiography and the foreword is written by his missionary aunt, Cora Stadem Taylor.
Prince of Zion Central for Darrell R. Ginther
"Do You Hear Their Voices?--A Memorial Tribute, by Ronald Ginther
This exciting news arrived in December 2012 as a special
Christmas gift to all who loved her! Pearl Stadem Ginther's Living Olive Tree is in the
Israel
Grove, Planted March 1, 2012 by Daystar Television Network
who have the grove near the Mount of
Beatitudes and the Sea of Galilee. This is a wonderful living memorial
that will provide olives and oil for years to come to bless
Israel,
even for centuries.
THIS WEBSITE, WWW.PLAINVIEWHERITAGE.COM, IS DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF PEARL ANDRINA STADEM GINTHER, WHO PASSED FROM
THIS EARTH TO HEAVENLY GLORY AND REWARD WITH JESUS HER SAVIOR, APRIL 30, 2011. PLEASE GO TO HER NIECE MIM RINDERKNECHT'S EMAIL, TRIBUTE WHICH IS THE BEST OF MANY WONDERFUL RESPONSES
TO THIS VERY TEARY BUT GLORIOUS EVENT:
"Mim's Email" Concerning Pearl's Graduation Event at the Age of 101 & 8 Months!
We have Norwegian American beauties in our midst too, but these young ladies certainly are a tribute to Norway's penchant for producing lovely maidens, and they sing beautifully too!
Our Guests have left ENCOURAGING comments, and here are some that came to us around 2000, four years after the Plain View Farm websites were inaugurated and christened with prayers in Pearl Ginther's living room:
PLAIN VIEW FARM GUESTBOOK FOR YEAR 2000
Butterfly Productions Home PageOur Wonderful Stadem Historian Estelle Rangen had this to say about the Plain View Farm heritage building and the websites. In the closing days of the year 2020, our prayerful hope is that she would still approve of our feeble and humble efforts here to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth and to glorify God with a display of his wonderful works in our midst:
Estelle Rangen's Letter Card to Ron Ginther, September 9-1998
Bio of your Plain View Heritage Farm Websites Editor:
"About Me," by Ron Ginther
U.S. Weather, Good, Bad, and Not so Good, and Not so Bad!
OUR DAKOTA PRAIRIE FARM'S BEAUTY by Carleen Taylor Newton
Minnesota sunflower fields and a Stadem/Svanoe grandmother who is just as pretty!
NEBRASKA PRAIRIE WINDMILL
OLD NORWAY'S BEAUTY IN THE FAR, FAR NORTH WHERE THE SQUARED BECOME ROUNDED WITH ICE AND SNOW IN THE ARTIC CIRCLE
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