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"The Norwegian Hardanger Violin in the Upper Midwest: Documentation and Interpretation of an Immigrant Music Tradition," a University of Minnesota Master of Arts thesis, 1989.
Photocopy of Pioneers: The Old Settler's Memorial Monument Association Inc. looks at the past. "We have attempted to cover at least a small portion of the territory along both sides of the Red River, with brief biographies and pictures of early settlers."
A trilogy of historical dramas set in the Norwegian-American settlement along the Goose River near Mayville, Traill County, North Dakota. The plays are based on the author's own family history and on that of their neighbors. An article from the Grand Forks Herald about an April, 1991, production at Mayville State University is included.
I am the Good Shepherd tells of the Norwegian-American artist, Sara Kirkeberg Raugland (1862-1960). The account emphasizes her altar painting "I am the Good Shepherd," originally in the York Lutheran Church, Blanchardville, Wisconsin, but now located in its successor, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, New Glarus, Wisconsin. Raugland was born near Gunder, Clayton County, Iowa, to parents who emigrated from Valdres. She studied art in Minneapolis and in 1891 married Carl Raugland who ran a music store and composed and published music. Sara Raugland is reputed to have made between 200 and 300 altar pieces. She ceased painting after the death of her husband in 1918. The painting under special treatment is a copy of one done by Bernhard Plockurst (1825-1907). The collection includes related newspaper clippings, For three songs by Carl Raugland see P 558, box 2.
The author, a minister who served congregations in Wisconsin beginning in 1926, "...is concerned mainly with the moral and spiritual welfare of the people prior to 1890. It serves to show the process of transition...."
The original subtitle explained its purpose: "An American Journal of Sami Living." Faith Fjeld, who founded the periodical in 1991, is its editor and publisher. For related material, see Finmark Misjonsforening, Minneapolis, P 670, and "Sami Siida Newsletter," A. K. A. "Arran: Newsletter of the North American Sami."
Articles, lectures, and addresses by a Lutheran clergyman and church historian. The address "The Norwegian Lutheran Church in America" (14 pages) was presented at the annual convention of the United Lutheran Church in 1906, and translated in 1965 by L. A. Mathre.
He used the spelling Fjelstad here; elsewhere (in Who's who, obituaries) the name is spelled Fjeldstad. Fjeldstad was born at Nissedal, Telemark, emigrated 1861, graduated from Luther College and Luther Seminary (1884). Served churches Montevideo, Norway Lake, and Springfield, Minnesota.
Handwritten article, Er det en Skjæbnens Ironi, eller hvad er det?, Hvorledes Veien søges banet for Missourianismen blandt vort Folk. Signed: Antimissourier. Article submitted to editor Carl Otto Aubol of Lutheraneren. Date (1903) entered in pencil.
"Lutheranism in the West" by a professor of theology at Illinois State University, Springfield, and president of the General Synod, dealing with the separation of Scandinavian Lutherans from the Synod of Northern Illinois, with an introduction by Fritiof Ander; and "Personal Reminiscences...Appearing in the Lutheran Observer, January 20-March 30, 1888," 33 typescript pages.
Annual reports of a Norwegian-born Lutheran clergyman to the Augustana congregation at Halstad, Minnesota, concerning ministerial activities; an obituary from Lutheraneren, by K. O. Lundeberg; a copy of Houkom's biography from the 1894 report of the United Lutheran Church.