Exhibit examines identity through clothing
Travel Editor Cynthia Elyce Rubin reports on two exhibitions about traditional folk dress at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M.
Category: Norwegian Heritage
The men with a ship on their shoulders
Leslee Lane Hoyum reports on a Minnesota Sons of Norway lodge that celebrated local members of the 99th (Viking) Battalion from World War II.
Respecting the earth and preserving a heritage
Marit Fosse interviews Ben Geboe, professor at McGill University, about
his work with Indigenous communities in Canada and the United States.
Search for Thor
Explore another episode of The Search For Thor with Randi Millman-Brown, as Thor joins the gold transport during World War II.
Remembering Col. Gail Halvorsen
Victoria Hofmo writes about Gail Halvorsen, who died at 101 in February and was a decorated military pilot known as the Berlin Candy Bomber.
A forgotten World War II hero
Tanja K. Eie shares the story of Gunvald Tomstad, a World War II hero she discovered when visiting her father’s hometown of Flekkefjord, Norway.
Koppmoll
Koppmoll is a short documentary film that tells the story of what happened during World War II in northern Norway.
Minnekirken celebrates its grand reopening
Minnekirken, the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in Chicago, celebrates its grand reopening after its restoration of the building’s facade.
The story of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
Daniel Albert tells the story of Norway’s Princess Märtha Louise, her place in the royal family and what she has done to make global headlines.
Dancing with a crown prince
Bonnie Svardal of Sequim, Wash., whose mother danced with Norway’s Crown Prince Olav in 1939, wishes
she had asked her parents more questions.
