Finding Norway at the Minnesota State Fair
Laila Simon tastes new food, including Nordic Waffles, Nordic Spiced Tea, and Ole and Lena’s Norwegian Onion Rings at the Minnesota State Fair.
Category: Norwegian Heritage
Nobel Peace Center honors Nansen’s legacy
Norwegian Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen has been honored in the exhibiti “Compassion in action” at the Nobel Peace Prize Insitute in Oslo.
The wreck of the sailing ship Prince Arthur
Terje Birkedal and Paul Gleeson tell of the Prince Arthur shipwreck in 1903 and the Norwegians who buried the dead and helped the survivors.
Norgesskolen offers norsk in total immersion
Editor-in-chief Lori Ann Reinhall writes about Norgesskolen in Telemark, Norway, that offers two-week summer camps for kids to learn Norwegian.
På norsk, selvfølgelig!
Nick Rogness shares his experience as a teacher in Vesterheim’s Norsk Skole as part of his Nordic Studies at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
Trollhaugen Lodge celebrates a golden jubilee
Barbara K. Rostad reports on Trollhaugen Lodge’s 50th golden jubilee celebration in Washington in July with lots of food, fun, and games.
Timber!
Victoria Hofmo writes that Nordic wood construction is making a comeback and bringing it to the United States with new building projects.
The place that changed the world
The Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum opens at the site of the Vemork heavy water cellar in June to educate about World War II history.
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.
Erika Skogg’s Midwest
Vesterheim announces a new exhibit by National Geographic Explorer Erika Skogg, whose photos show the Midwest Scandinavian-American communities.
