On Saturday, Feb. 11, the Museum will host a free book evening with professor and author Eric Dregni, who will discuss his latest work, Vikings in the Attic.

In Vikings in the Attic, Dregni tracks down and explores the significant-and quite often bizarre-historic sites, tales, and traditions of Scandinavia’s peculiar colony in the Midwest. It’s a legacy of the unique-shots of turpentine for the common cold-but also one of poor immigrants living in sod houses while their children attend college, the birth of the co-op movement, and government agents spying on Scandinavian meetings hoping to nab a socialist or antiwar activist.

Dregni’s book Vikings in the Attic will be available for purchase in the Museum Store for $22.95.