A Look Back at Midsommar 2005

Midsommar Info

The 2013 Midsommar Celebration will be held on June 21-23.

The photo shows the decorating of the pole in New Sweden, ME in 2005.

Here’s this year’s schedule.

Midsommar Info

June Weddings: “Wiedens observe 60th anniversary”

“Presque Isle –– University of Maine at Presque Isle President Emeritus and Mrs. Clifford O. T. Wieden observed their 60th wedding anniversary June 2 at a family dinner at the Northeastland Hotel. Four generations, representing all branches of their family, were present.
Marguerite Hill of Auburn and Clifford O. T. Wieden of New Sweden met while teaching at Mapleton High School. They were married Sunday, June 1, 1924, in the First Baptist Church of New Sweden by the bridegroom’s father, the Rev. Oscar Carl Wieden.
After their wedding, Wieden taught at Gorham Normal School, now the University of Southern Maine, for 16 years before assuming the principalships of the Washington and Arooostook State Normal schools, now the University of Maine at Machias and Presque Isle, until his retirement in 1969.
Mrs. Wieden continued her teaching on the secondary school level in these and neighboring communities, retiring in 1968.
She was president of the Maine Congress of Parents and Teachers and was instrumental in establishing the Maine Junior Classical League, serving for several years as its director. Both remain active in community and professional affairs.
The Wiedens have two children: Mrs. Louis (Carolyn) Carey of Waterville and Clifford Jr. of Falmouth, Mass., 11 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
They were honored by a coffee served after the Sunday church service by the Diaconate of the Presque Isle Congregational Church.
The Wiedens have resided at 31 Barton St., Presque Isle, since their retirement.”

[From an article in the Bangor Daily News, June 2, 1984]

After Clifford Wieden’s Wedding. Right to left: Rev. O. C. Wieden, Rev. David Anderson, Mildred Wieden, A. E. Nelson, Marguerite Widen, Clifford Wieden, Lars Johanson, Floyd Wieden, Hilda Norberg, Virginia Stadig, Alger Stadig, Annie D. Wieden, Lindley Wieden. June 1, 1924