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Molly Jones at Johanneskirken in Bergen, Norway

A message from Assistant Editor Molly Jones

A thousand thanks By Molly Jones I suppose you could say it all started in September 2010, when I sat in my very first Norwegian class at the University of Washington as a bright-eyed...

Changes

The Norwegian American Weekly has had a makeover! Introducing the newly revamped, now biweekly publication: The Norwegian American.

A nisse reading The Norwegian American

State of the NAW (and its editor)

After a year filled with ups and downs for the Norwegian American Weekly, our editor-in-chief reflects on the current state of the NAW.

Really?

Editor-in-chief Emily C. Skaftun explains the lateness of the current issue and the uncertain future of the NAW in her editor’s notes for this week.

State of the NAW

Hello, dear readers! This issue marks my one-year anniversary as your editor. And what a year it’s been! Here are some of the challenges we faced in 2014 and our hopes and plans for...

A new interpretation

Robert G. Johnson and Janey Westin offer a new theory on the presence of Norse explorers in North America Kelsey Larson Managing Editor The Kensington Runestone in Minnesota, the Spirit Pond runestones discovered in...

Not just a day off

Memorial Day is much more than just a long weekend Larrie Wanberg Feature Editor The day is indelible in my memory when, as a Boy Scout with a snare drum strapped to one leg...

New from Norway

New Norwegian technology allows for quick and easy at-home radon tests John Erik Stacy Seattle, Wash. Norwegians are well aware of insidious health danger of naturally occurring radon gas. Radon can seep from the...

New land, new life

A museum exhibit and project of the Sons of Norway unlike any other in St. Paul, Minn. By Kelsey Larson Managing Editor In St. Paul, Minn., Sons of Norway Synnøve-Nordkap Lodge 1–8 has spearheaded...

Images of an immigrant life

By Ragnhild Synnøve Risholt Kleppe, former Editor-in-Chief, Norway Times “It’s all coming back to me now. Reading these stories of Norwegian emigrants to the U.S. has brought back so many memories of my childhood...