School residencies – Swedish, gr K-6
“Scandinavian Dance camp has been a part of our family's life for the past five years. Our girls are now in the fifth and second grade. The traditional fold songs and dances are now a part of our family traditions. Dance camp is full of generation upon generation of art and music. Val and Ross have become our life long friends.  For one week tow weekends per year our home is filled with music and dancing. At weeks end we are tired but sad to see another Hostfest come to an end"
Joe Super, parent of Swedish dancers at Hostfest, Minot, ND

Letter from the Swedish American Newspaper (New York)
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“Only positive experiences from co-operation with Mrs. Valorie Arrowsmith
  “I have visited Minnesota and especially the Cambridge-Braham-Mora area north of Minneapolis several times since 1993. One person I have had contact with during all of these visits is Mrs Arrowsmith. I have also had contact with her when she made visits to Sweden during this period.
  “Mrs. Arrowsmith has helped me to arrange useful meetings in Minnesota for my work both as Lt. Governor and as President of the Tourist Board for the Province of Dalarna. She has helped me make interesting connections even after my retirement from these positions. When I was in Minnesota most recently in 2004, as a consultant in tourism and regional development, she put together a very good program for me, which gave me an extraordinary, fruitful and interesting month of meetings and events. Mrs. Arrowsmith has a good feeling for finding the right persons and the right institutions and events to visit. This good feeling is based upon her broad knowledge and experiences of different topics and aspects of Swedish-American society and also to her broad contact network.
  “Mrs. Arrowsmith has also built up good knowledge about Sweden and has made many useful contacts with each visit to Scandinavia. I know that she has supported people from Minnesota in their preparations before going to Sweden and my impressions from meeting with these people are that have been completely satisfied by her assistance. She knows how to find people and places of interest suited to what the visitors are looking for.
  “Mrs. Arrowsmith is in my opinion an excellent ambassador for US and Minnesota and also an excellent person to organize contacts and visits between Minnesota and Sweden in both directions. I therefore warmly recommend her to people interested in contacts between our countries, both for business, leisure and tourism.”
Leif Svensson, Stockholm Sweden, Former Lt. Governor

“It has been a real joy working with Valorie Arrowsmith. She has brought many outstanding, wonderful Swedish Musicians to our Vasa Community.”
Pastor Michael E. Dobbins, Vasa Lutheran Church, Welch, MN

“Valorie Arrowsmith is a wonderful representative for me as a performer”
Kevin Carlson, New York singer and accordionist