Immigrant Stories
In 1999, the NIA and the Norway Times, announced a contest which had as it’s prize–a round trip to Norway. Immigrants and/or their relatives were invited to submit the stories […]
Cashbook of Mathias Knutsen Kjolseth
July 21, 1904-November 15 plus November 1910 household inventory MKK was born in Norway November 26, 1882. He immigrated to the U.S. in the fall of 1902. After working […]
Images of an Immigrant Life-Comments by former Editor-in -chief, Norway Times–Ragnhild Synnove Risholt Kleppe
Images of an Immigrant Life By Ragnhild Synnøve Risholt Kleppe, former Editor-in-Chief, Norway Times ”It’s all coming back to me now. Reading these stories of Norwegian emigrants to […]
Morfar
October, 2016-The 150th Anniversary of the First Norwegian Church in New York
A Letter Home
Stian Skjaevesland Larsen at the Norwegian Christian Home and Health Center in Brooklyn. This letter was written by Stian Skjaevesland ( later Larsen) in September 1930. It was sent […]
A Remembrance, and an in Memoriam to a Vanishing Immigrant Generation
Picture Gallery, Miss Norway 2015’s trip home
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My Experience as Miss Norway 2015
By Lauren Benson, Miss Norway of Greater New York 2015 Click here to open a picture gallery from Ms. Benson’s trip to Norway! As I walked through the audience in my […]
Else Hvistendahl – Portrait of a Freelancer
by Rigmor Swensen and Rolf Stang Else Hvistendahl Levering passed away just before Christmas 2015 at 96 years of age. The American Scandinavian community knows her as a journalist—a woman […]
