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Lorie Topinka collection, 2020
- Title
- Lorie Topinka collection, 2020
- Identifier
- NAHA 2020/022
- Date
- 2020
- Creator
- Topinka, Lorie
- Description
- "Once and Forever: The Long Journey home from Alaska to Norway 1927" by Lorie Topinka, 2020. My grandmother, Agnes Johnson Steberg, kept a daily diary during a five-month family trip in 1927 from Ketchikan along the Pacific Coast through the Panama Canal on to New York and across the Atlantic Ocean to Norway and then returning to Ketchikan overland by way of Minnesota.I was fortunate to find her diary in a box of family memorabilia and then fascinated to read this carefully written daily record of a highpoint of family history-the only return trip to Norway that my Norwegian grandfather, Knut Lauritz Steberg, ever made after immigrating to America in 1905 at the age of 18. This is a simple story about a middle-class Norwegian-American family before the Great Depression and the Second World War that captures the customs of that era and the character of this family.
- Extent
- 1 folder
- Language
- English
- Type
- Manuscripts
Citation
Topinka, Lorie, “Lorie Topinka collection, 2020,” Norwegian-American Historical Association, accessed September 19, 2024, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/12124.