Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
For 70 years, Faith Lutheran Church in Forest Lake, Minnesota, served an annual lutefisk dinner on the second Tuesday in December. The community was settled by Scandinavian immigrants, and the church served a traditional dinner of lutefisk, lefse, boiled potatoes, meatballs, and other traditional dishes.
The church has decided to discontinue the feast this year, and to get the community’s attention, pastor John Klawiter wrote an obituary for the dinner, published in the Forest Lake Times. I guess it’s true that more people read the obituaries than any other section of the newspaper. People outside of Forest Lake might think that the cause of death would be lack of participation due to a waning taste for lutefisk (a gelatinous…The post An Obituary for an Annual Dinner appeared first on FeedBox.