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Helen M. Thal autobiography, 2002
- Title
- Helen M. Thal autobiography, 2002
- Identifier
- P1663
- Date
- 2002
- Description
- Childhood in Lakota; stories of the 1920s in small-town North Dakota" San Diego, CA, copyright 2002 by Helen M. Thal.
"First written as apart of a personal history writing class…between 1994 and 2000…For the Thal kids our lives were typical of the rest of the town, but with one exception: our Grandpa and Grandma Thal were Jews who had emigrated from Germany in 1882. Their oldest son Abraham, my dad married Ida Ellingboe, a Norwegian Lutheran school teacher…My Uncle Gus married a Methodist, and lonly Alfred managed to find himself a Jewish wife. So being ‘Jew' didn't mean much to us kids."; "In Part Two, I have edited and reprinted a story told by Grandma Thal…that describes…the harshness of homesteading in the new land. It was first published in a book, Pioneer stories written by people of Nelson county, N.D." Received from the Carl Solberg estate, 2003.; Born 1916, Thal graduated from St. Olaf College in 1938, earned graduate degrees from the University of Iowa and Teachers College, Columbia University. She has been an English and journalism teacher, and editor, and a professor. She retired from Penn State University in 1981. - Location: 13/C/2
- Extent
- 1 folder
- Language
- English
- Rights
- In copyright.
- Type
- Autobiography
Collection
Citation
Thal, Helen M. (Helen Marjorie), 1916-, “Helen M. Thal autobiography, 2002,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 17, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10944.