Tag: Vesterheim

• Norway’s scattered children (part 1)

  

  Two hundred years ago this year, a small ship set sail from Stavanger, Norway bound for New York City with 52 passengers and crew. This was Norway’s “Mayflower moment”.* Who could have guessed that over the coming century the number of migrants from Norway to the United States would reach nearly a million?  The Norwegian…

  Jesse Rude

  May 19, 2025

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