Minnesota business ties as President Lisa Erickson attracts Norwegian startups to the state’s strong Scandinavian community, Fortune 500 economy, and thriving tech scene, creating new partnerships and ...

Christie Ericson teaches us about the Norwegian language and the resurgence in popularity around Håndarbeid (handicrafts).

As a tour operator specializing in travel to Scandinavia, with a sub-specialty in Norway and heritage travel, Brekke Tours has had the privilege of assisting numerous Norwegian-Americans return to ...

The Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County (HCSCC), Minn., has the mission to collect, preserve, interpret, and share the history and culture of Clay County. Located in Moorhead, its main ...

There was once a woman in a U.S. president’s life. But not just any woman: a Norwegian princess. The princess was Crown Princess Märtha of Norway, and the president was President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

It is with great sadness that the Greater Tacoma Peace Prize Board of Directors announces the death of beloved board member and 2006 Greater Tacoma Peace Prize (GTPP) laureate William Fawcett Lincoln, ...

Although Norway has a short growing season, it is not short on its love of flora, whether in the abundance of the country’s well-tended home gardens that enchant all passersby or the many public ...

Almost eight years after the terrorist attacks on the government building complex in Oslo and the island of Utøya, a white paper describes the planning phases to date of the work on the new government ...

The first Midwestern stop for most immigrants was Chicago with more than 47,000 Norwegians by 1910. Chicago was the third largest Norwegian city after Oslo and Bergen at the time, earning it the ...

Over the years’s, it’s been a song that is often sung at gatherings in the Scandinavian-American community across North America. I once sang it at a concert in Iceland with my old friend and musical ...

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The Norwegian oil painting Logging in Modum, Norway, winter 1926, by Anders Abrahamsen Kongsrud, reminds me of the traditional Christmas song “Jingle Bells ...