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Immigrant Stories

April 25, 2017by larsnilsen37 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cashbook of Mathias Knutsen Kjolseth

October 5, 2016by niaediting Leave a comment

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 […]

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Images of an Immigrant Life-Comments by former Editor-in -chief, Norway Times–Ragnhild Synnove Risholt Kleppe

September 30, 2016by larsnilsen37 Leave a comment

  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 […]

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Morfar

April 16, 2016by larsnilsen37 Leave a comment
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October, 2016-The 150th Anniversary of the First Norwegian Church in New York

March 8, 2016by larsnilsen37 4 Comments
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A Letter Home

February 23, 2016by larsnilsen37 Leave a comment

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 […]

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A Remembrance, and an in Memoriam to a Vanishing Immigrant Generation

February 14, 2016by larsnilsen37 Leave a comment
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Picture Gallery, Miss Norway 2015’s trip home

January 21, 2016by nia_admin Leave a comment

Click here to return to the article. All photos courtesy of the Benson family

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Miss Norway

My Experience as Miss Norway 2015

January 21, 2016by nia_admin Leave a comment

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 […]

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Else Hvistendahl – Portrait of a Freelancer

January 13, 2016by nia_admin Leave a comment

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 […]

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Immigrant stories, In Memoriam

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