Elaine in her West Telemark bunad Born on June 16, 1854 on the Gausta farm in Vestfjørddalen, Telemark, Norway, Herbjørn Nilsen Gausta immigrated with his family to America at age twelve. He settled with his parents and four sisters on a farm near Harmony, Minnesota. Gausta entered a training program for parochial school teachers at […]
Livsreise is excited to have Arna Rennan as our featured speaker in September -especially since she will be sharing highlights of her summer in Scandinavia! In her presentation Arna will be presenting comparisons between folk traditions in the Midwest and current trends in the Scandinavian Countries Arna Rennan hosts the program “Nordic Roots Music” at KTWH Two Harbors, […]
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 heritage. The foundation for the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church’s stave church (modeled after a church in Borgun, Norway) was built in 1991 and completed three […]
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 of the late 1850s and early 1860s was the introduction of the "consort system," and the development of specialized bulk freight carriers. Enormous quantities of […]
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 that- when half or Europe was covered in ice.? Where did you come from? Our speaker, Craig Gjerde, will lead us back about two million […]