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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 and sounding the cadence, I lead of a hometown parade in 1944, marching just behind an aging four-member American Legion Honor Guard.
The place was ...

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 earth into homes and work-places, and the buildings of Norway – often built into living rock and well insulated against the winds of winter ...

Are your Norwegian ancestors from Inner Sogn? There is a new way to find them
By Linda Sharp
Finding your Norwegian ancestors just got easier if you are descended from the Inner Sogn. Neil Hofland’s website, www.norwayancestors.com, is the brainchild of a man who has made a 25-year hobby of a childhood dream that he recalls having ...

Napoleon and Desiree’s part in Norway’s independence
Judith Gabriel Vinje
La Crescenta, Calif.
Syttende Mai might be called the “king swapping” day, but throw in a famous courtesan turned queen and an even more famous jilted lover, and you’ve got... a famous movie, and the story of Norway’s independence.
Until the late 800s, there was no single king in ...

A gourmet twist on the traditional 17. mai fare from Outside Oslo
Daytona Strong
Outside Oslo
Syttende Mai—it’s been a part of my Norwegian-American identity for as long as I can remember. Heading down to Ballard where Market Street would be lined with thousands of people from throughout the greater Seattle area, I’d watch the parade as a ...

For Aina Fjellanger of MollyMe clothing company, springtime ushers in the busiest season of the year
Kelsey Larson
Managing Editor
“The best part is when they try on the bunad for the first time, when I have just finished it,” says Aina Fjellanger. “Most people look great in their bunad, because it is measured and fitted just for ...

The Alberta, Canada based language arts and culture camp celebrates its 40th birthday
Special Release
Trollhaugen
The Alberta-based Trollhaugen Language Arts and Culture Camp will be celebrating its fortieth anniversary this upcoming August. Since 1973, the Norwegian culture camp has been promoting and preserving Norwegian heritage through history, crafts, traditional skills and culture classes.
Over the years, the camp ...

Sallie Shawl named as Greater Tacoma Peace Prize Laureate for 2013
Special Release
Greater Tacoma Peace Prize
Sallie Shawl has a simple wish; she just wants everyone in the world to get along. Even though that simple wish has always eluded mankind, Shawl won’t give up. She has dedicated her life to working for peace and justice, which ...

Norwegian touches like smoked salmon and dilled vinaigrette create a satisfying meal in this salad from Outside Oslo
Daytona Strong
Outside Oslo
Springtime brings with it a promise that winter is gone and warmer days are on their way. Blue skies emerge from the overcast shroud of winter, and flowers bloom everywhere one looks. Even the rain, when ...

Amy Lindland crowned Miss Norway of Greater New York 2013
Roy Jorgensen
Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
Amy Lindland of Cornwall, NY was chosen as Miss Norway of Greater New York 2013 at a festive luncheon at the Arthur Nilsen Banquet Hall in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Amy was born in one of the outlying Norwegian “colonies” in Rockland County.
She is ...
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