Category: Norwegian Heritage

Keeping Christmas Vesterheim Decorah, Iowa Ring in the season with Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center, at a Norwegian Christmas Celebration on Sat., Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This...

Norway shines as the guest of honor at the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair Christie Ericson Anchorage, Alaska Frankfurt, Germany, has a long history related to book publishing, dating back hundreds of years, and since...

Part 9: Lars Phillips Ingerid Jordal Odda, Norway Our ancestors came to America to give their families a better life. Now young Norwegian Americans dream of the old country. This series of interviews was...

M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway Because Cemal Yucel was born in Turkey into a Muslim family of Kurdish heritage, his life seemed preordained. As he grew up, he joined the youth branch of Mîlli...

By Randi Millman-Brown Thor Jensen, 36, moves from Oslo to Hammerfest. He is promoted to bank manager, becomes engaged, and takes a one-month hiking trip through occupied Finnmark in 1941. By the end of...

Part 8: Gabriela Capestany Ingerid Jordal Odda, Norway Our ancestors came to America to give their families a better life. Now young Norwegian Americans dream of the old country. This series of interviews was...

Norwegian immigration Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. Norwegians have been immigrating to New York ever since it was known as New Amsterdam and were an integral part of the early colony. Among the very first...

Music, lutefisk, and a lot of fun! Nate Axvig Denver, Colo. I have just returned from my first Høstfest in Minot, N.D., and it was quite an experience. For those who have never made...