Author: Mari-Ann Kind Jackson

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Mari-Ann Kind Jackson is an active member of the National Nordic Museum in Seattle and the Norwegian community in Ballard.
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The importance of oral history

Mari-Ann Kind Jackson discusses Nordic American Voices, the oral history project she directs at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle.

“The Epiphany” reading

Bruce Olav Solheim’s play packs strong emotions Mari-Ann Kind Jackson Seattle, Wash. The Nordic Heritage Museum was buzzing with voices revealing many different Norwegian dialects on January 22. One hour before the official start...

A Norwegian Christmas, 1945

Memories of a post-war Jul north of the Arctic Circle Mari-Ann Kind Jackson Seattle, Wash. It is three o’clock in the afternoon December 24, 1945. Christmas Eve in Borkenes, 200 miles north of the...