"The Stavig Letters, written in Norwegian and translated into English by Bruce and Marta Boyce, are an extensive collection of letters between two brothers, Lars Stavig who immigrated to America in 1876 and his brother Knut who stayed in Norway. Consisting of more than 150 letters spanning more than five decades from 1881 to 1938, […]
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Register here for this Virtual Presentation About NAHA The Norwegian-American Historical Association was founded in 1925 to commemorate the centennial of Norwegian immigration to North America. Now, nearly a century later, NAHA is an invaluable source for the public and for scholars of migration history worldwide. NAHA Executive Director Amy Boxrud will introduce the collections […]
Livsreise is proud to host local rosemaler, Nancy Odalen in our auditorium for this special presentation!! Nancy Odalen began studying rosemaling with her first Vesterheim rosemaling class in 2001. She has taken and continues to take classes from instructors that have given generously of their time and talents to instruct her in various styles of […]
Livsreise is pleased to have Laura Moquin as our speaker. Laura is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research interests include Scandinavian heritage languages in North America, sociolinguistics, language contact and change, and linguistic identities. She is currently conducting a sociolinguistic dissertation project. The project examines Norwegian-influenced contact phenomena in varieties of […]