My aunt’s perfume I remember. On a trip to Norway, relatives wore that same fragrance. Aunt Beulah spent time in Norway during the 2nd World War. Family reunions at Mom’s home farm in summer attracted the Larson relatives once a year. Aunt Beulah and others congregated at the farm north of Amery, WI, for an […]
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Yule Nisse Gather at a Fjelberg Barn-I
Yule Nisse Gather at a Fjelberg Barn-I
Five bodies lay on the porch, four of them staring into the field beyond the barn. Emma, the littlest, lay on her back with her mouth open, catching snowflakes. A thick blanket under them kept them warm. The Nordhus farm on Fjelberg Island. Snowing, barely. Christmas eve. Aunt Marianne, the largest of these humans, […]
Strawberries (jordbaer) and Fresh Produce
Strawberries (jordbaer) and Fresh Produce
Just today my cousin Unni from Norway posted this photo, one of several picnic pics. These are wild strawberries, about the size of marbles. The jordbaer pictured here only understand Norwegian. Though I never had the patience to gather a mess of them in a container, friend and neighbor Willis and I picked them in […]
Norwegians at the Blalock
Norwegians at the Blalock
During the years of the First World War the mansion became a medical hospital, and it became important when the worldwide flu epidemic struck. The years of the Blalock Asylum were over in 1915. In late 1918 Turid and her mother Solveig knocked on the door at the Blalock and nursing staff welcomed them, but […]
Letter from Norway: August 1895
Letter from Norway: August 1895
This letter from Norway was sent to my Grandpa Ole Larson from his father in August of 1895. Ole and Julia Larson farmed north of Amery, WI. Often weather and general greetings took up in the first paragraph, but it gets a little tawdry later in the letter. This is the 3rd letter I’ve posted, […]
Letter from Norway–1895
Letter from Norway–1895
Aarak the 4 of November 1895 My son Ole ! We have had your welcome letter of 16 September, where by we greet you with our loving thanks. We saw to our joy that you had your health and that you lived well and had got in the corn, Wheat and Oats. Our health are […]