I know this may not be an exciting topic for many of my readers. At least, that is why I had not broached the subject myself, but I found something in the Norwegian American Historical Association archives that caught my attention. It was the history of the Ladies Aid of Valley Grove Lutheran Church by Mrs. Oscar Hellerud, which both my Huseby and Nelson great-grandparents attended. As a family historian, anything that gives me insight about what life was like for my family around the turn of the last century excites me. Life was hard on the frontier, so Ladies Aids gave the farmers’ wives a chance to socialize and catch up on gossip on a monthly basis, but at the same time, do something productive to help those in need both in America and abroad.
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