Picture Gallery, Miss Norway 2015’s trip home
Click here to return to the article. All photos courtesy of the Benson family
Click here to return to the article. All photos courtesy of the Benson family
By Lauren Benson, Miss Norway of Greater New York 2015 Click here to open a picture gallery from Ms. Benson’s trip to Norway! As I walked through the audience in my […]
by Rigmor Swensen and Rolf Stang Else Hvistendahl Levering passed away just before Christmas 2015 at 96 years of age. The American Scandinavian community knows her as a journalist—a woman […]
By Captain Henry N. Helgesen, US Coast Guard (Ret.) Captain Nels Helgesen was inducted into the National Maritime Hall of Fame in 1989. The only other Norwegian immigrant found in […]
By Helen Berge McMichael My father, Otto Edvin Olsen Berge, was born on the Berge farm in Grimstad, Norway, December 16th 1894. His father, Knud Bjørn Olsen Berge, operated a grist […]
By Mrs. Carma Pedersen What I remember most of my early days was climbing gangplanks no matter how steep they were – or almost inaccessible. My dad was with the […]
By Vivian Jensen Chapin In 1894 a gypsy woman in my mother’s nearby Norwegian village told my then 10 year old mother, “You will go across the ocean and live […]
By Megan Hjelle, Miss Norway of Greater New York, 2009 I stood there recollecting the 23 years I spent dreading the moment someone would try to pronounce my last name […]
Spring was always welcome since it broke the winter’s cold grip. Easter was an enjoyable holiday. All the local candy stores had the windows decorated with large chocolate Easter bunnies […]
Growing up in Bay Ridge in the late 30s and 49s, as I look back, was a unique experience. I, as many youngsters did, took things for granted. In my […]