Seemingly dropped in place right from medieval Norway, the traditional wooden stave church belonging to Wisconsin’s Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church was built on Washington Island to honor the area’s Scandinavian […]
In the 1860s, commerce shifted in the Great Lakes. Railroads had penetrated the West and cut into the profitable freight businesses. The most dramatic and far-reaching consequence of the lean years […]
So you are a proud Norwegian. You may have traced your family back 2-3 generations back to the family farm in Norway . But where did your family live before […]
Norwegians were the earliest and most numerous of the Scandinavian peoples to settle in Wisconsin. In 1840, there were already two sizable communities, Rock Prairie and Jefferson Prairie, in Rock […]
First released on March 3, 1948 this film tells the story of the Hanson family who were Norwegian immigrants, living in San Francisco in the early part of the 20th […]