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Grandpa's Biography was written by Pederson when she was ten years old; "One Hundred Years in America" was written as a student at St. Olaf College in 1947; a short story, "The Truth in Love," was awarded a prize in the 1967 Minnesota Amateur Writer's Contest; and, finally, "Moen History, 1847-1975." Two items in the file are papers prepared for the University without Walls, an adult education program sponsored by the University of Minnesota. The first examines the transition of the Norwegian language to English in the churches of the Pope County area, Minnesota; the second, "The Troll Church," is a short story.
Clippings, a postcard, and an article telling the story of the famous sloop which brought the first organized group of Norwegian emigrants to the United States in 1825.
Clippings, correspondence, family history, and a 1979 Rolf Erickson interview of a Norwegian-born painter who came from Halden, Norway, to Chicago in 1926, where he worked at painting and decorating. At the same time he continued his studies in art at the Art Institute in Chicago, painting landscapes and murals. In 1972 he began work in "rosemaling" and gave lessons in that art in several Chicago centers.
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Includes interview with Rolf Erickson, August 1979
Mural at Bethesda Home. Includes clippings, correspondence.
Centennial edition commemorating the founding of the paper in 1879. Many of the accounts are about Norwegians who settled in the area: Ole Lien, Harald Thorson, the Reverend Gullick Erdahl, the Rock Prairie Lutheran Church, and the villages of Thorsberg and Erdahl.
Translation of a diary of an immigrant from Nes, Hallingdal, who homesteaded at Newfolden, Minnesota. The diary covers Lee's departure from his home, May 17, 1880, to his arrival at Spring Grove, Minnesota, a month later. Letters by a son and his postscript to the diary add biographical details.
Biographical data and articles by a Norwegian-American teacher at Northwestern University who was Director of the Institute for Language Disorders. His work with handicapped children earned him a national reputation. The institute he directed was a training center for teachers in the fields of deafness and language disorders.
Thirteen issues (1942-1943) of "The Viking," a mimeographed newsletter containing information about events in camp and news from occupied Norway with cartoons by Claus Hoie, and a collection of clippings about the 99th. The Viking Battalion, as it was also called, was composed of "men of Norwegian extraction, Norwegian nationals, and Americanized Norwegians," and organized for particular missions during World War II. The unit trained at Camp Ripley and Fort Snelling in Minnesota, and at a mountain skiing center at Camp Hale in Colorado. For a complete statement, see "Bataljon 99," by Gerd Nyquist, Oslo, 1981.
Bright Patches: Growing up Norwegian in Shawano County, Wisconsin, by Norman Reitan and edited by Rolf H. Erickson and Wilbert S. Peterson, 1991, 108 pages. Reitan was a Madison, Wisconsin, attorney.