Last month my sister gave me a 1935 diary she found that my father, Elsworth (Al) Huseby, had written. His first entry records his...

Contrary to what my dear friends of African, Asian, and Hispanic descent may think, whites are not all alike. You cannot call an Irishman...

I am Norwegian! I am Lutheran! No apologies! No compromise! The two were always inseparable. I don’t know whether it was more traumatic...

In an earlier article, I mentioned that my great-grandparents were Johannes (John) Tobias Nelson, and Jensine Jensen. Still, I did not...

As a city planner by trade, I was delighted to find that the hometown of my great grandparents, John and Jensine (Jensen) Nelson, was one...

Father's Day in America is the third Sunday in June, and I have been holding off on writing this article until this time to write a...

When I talked with my mother about her Lutheran church heritage, it was much different from mine and what I found in Norway. Her changed...

In America, the second Sunday in May is Mother’s Day. Therefore, I thought it fitting to write a tribute to my mother that could apply to...

In America, parents have had many choices in selecting their children’s first names. Often it is based on what happens to be popular at...

Recently I came across a blog written by Norwegians who were baffled, almost to the point of being insulted, that some Americans would...

In January 2012, I introduced the topic of Janteloven. Among the numerous comments, I thought that I would share the one from my cousin,...

We are fortunate to be able to share two poems from my dear cousin. Magdalena Eide Jessen lives with her husband near Kristiansand,...

I always knew that my grandparents, Abel and Synneva Haakinson (Thormodsæter), were married in Bergen, Norway, on August 26, 1910, and...

This might be the first of a series of articles on the impact of Janteloven on Norwegian and Norwegian-American thinking. So what is...

Disasters, whether natural or man-made, can happen anywhere at any time. After reading the Iowa tornado story, Trygve Eide, my cousin...

If you are going to be a family historian (genealogist), you often have to be a detective. One mystery bothered me for a couple of years....

It is wintertime, and in Norway, there are many places where the sun never rises. Darkness envelops the entire countryside along with its...

Legends are often based on an event that actually occurred, but after storytellers have retold the legend, including their own little...

On May 21, 1918, a strong tornado struck outside of Radcliffe, Iowa.In the path of the tornado was the farm of Grandpa Abel Thormodsæter...

My grandfather, Andrew Ovie Huseby, used to say he lived in a little sod house on the North Dakota prairie. It was so small that he...