Bernice Arlene Haakinson, the youngest child of Abel and Synneva Haakinson, was born on a farm near Radcliffe on May 10, 1918. Agnes...

This month my dad would have been 110 years old. That seems amazing. I just cannot picture my very youthful dad being that old. He was...

Being the oldest son of a father and mother who were the youngest in the family and who married late in life meant that nearly all my...

In America, Mother's Day is always the second Sunday in May, and I thought it would be only fitting to talk about my mother, who would...

In an earlier article, I indicated that there were as many Norwegian in America as Norwegians. This was because of the massive...

We just returned from a cruise to Alaska and had an enjoyable time. In this age of jet travel, we can complain about 3-6 hour flights...

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

Have you ever wondered how we got our last names? In America, families had a fixed last name (surname) from the beginning of our country....