Mr. Speaker. I rise today to recognize and commemorate the 125th Messiah Festival in Lindsborg. Kansas. This April. the community of Lindsborg will celebrate Holy Week by performing Handels "The Messiah." This musical interpretation of the Easter story has been enjoyed in Undsborg since the late 1800s when local immigrant pioneers first gathered together to perform this historic piece. Many pioneers settling in the Smoky Valley on the plains of Kansas journeyed far from their homes in Sweden. They sought a better way of life and the choice to practice a religion free from the will of Swedens state church.
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