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Hanne Ravnholt: Pioneer Wisconsin Buttermaker, Reimert T. Ravenholt Jan 1987

Hanne Ravnholt: Pioneer Wisconsin Buttermaker, Reimert T. Ravenholt

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The historical marker placed along Highway 35 near Luck, Wisconsin, commemorating the founding of Wisconsin's first cooperative creamery-the Luck Creamery Company-on the north shore of nearby Little Butternut Lake, West Denmark, notes that "the first Buttermaker was a Danish woman who made butter in large wooden churns." A brief history of this pioneering Danish woman was provided by her son, Ansgar Ravnholt, a few years before his death in 1964.1 This author, a grandson, has contributed additional details from more recently discovered records.

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Danish Methodists In America, Arlow W. Andersen Jan 1987

Danish Methodists In America, Arlow W. Andersen

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The separate histories of foreign-language missions present a special challenge to students of American church history. Descendants of the immigrants, more and more of mixed ancestry, lack the ability to read and translate material published in the language of their forebears. To make matters more difficult, the children and grandchildren of the pioneers often shun the tedious work of research and writing. Their handicaps apply to the offspring of all foreignspeaking peoples in America. Of the nineteenth-century immigrants, the Danes come to mind.

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Laurs Christian Laursen, Betty Laursen Miller Jan 1987

Laurs Christian Laursen, Betty Laursen Miller

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When my younger brother and I were little, our mother often sang to us, and soon our voices would be joining in with "Venter Paa Far"--Waiting for Father. This song is about two little blueeyed children who press their ' noses against the window pane as they eagerly await their father's homecoming. It ends with a happy rush to the door when they hear him approaching, and the words change to a joyous shout of "Her Kommer Far"--Here Comes our Father.

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Marcus Lee Hansen Returns To His Roots, John Robert Christianson Jan 1987

Marcus Lee Hansen Returns To His Roots, John Robert Christianson

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Marcus Lee Hansen (1892-1938) was the founder of modern immigration history. He established new frameworks in time and space for the study of the peopling of North America.

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A Transplanted Dane Looks Back On 80 Years, Ludvig Christian Mosbaek Jan 1987

A Transplanted Dane Looks Back On 80 Years, Ludvig Christian Mosbaek

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Ludvig Christian Mosb~k (1855-193B) was one of the founding fathers of Askov , Minnesota . Coming to the Danish colony when it was called Partridge, he took active part in establishing its church , school , creamery , and first cooperative . But , above all, he was a skilled nurseryman. He created a market for wild ferns , brought in the stock of various trees hardy enough for the northern climate , raised perennials and evergreens from seeds , and introduced rutabagas to the American market. For some years he combined farming with a nursery business, but gradually gave …

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Children Of Danish Roots, L.C. Laursen Jan 1987

Children Of Danish Roots, L.C. Laursen

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Children of Danish Roots is a translation by Willard R. Garred of Stammens B0rn, an article that appeared originally in the 1931 issue of the "Ryslinge Julebog," a Christmas magazine of the Ryslinge Folk High School, Ryslinge, Denmark. The article was written by L. C. Laursen when he lived in the western Nebraska community at Mirage Flats near Hay Springs. After his arrival in the community he named it Ryslinge, a name generally accepted by the settlers and their friends.

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The Travels Abroad Of H. C. Andersen, Don Mowatt Jan 1987

The Travels Abroad Of H. C. Andersen, Don Mowatt

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A complete appreciation of Hans Christian Andersen has always been limited to Danish-speaking readers because so much of his private life is most clearly revealed in his letters, diaries, and travel books which remain largely untranslated into English. There is a handful of exceptions, the majority of which are mid-nineteenth century translations from England.

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Full Issue Jan 1987

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Editorial Statement Jan 1987

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Enok Mortensen's Major Fiction, Dorothy Burton Skardal Jan 1987

Enok Mortensen's Major Fiction, Dorothy Burton Skardal

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Enok Mortensen' s literary career was strangely divided. In the 1930s he published a play and three books of fiction in a first burst of activity that began after most other Scandinavian immigrant authors had ceased to publish or had died. After 1936, however, he abruptly ceased to publish fiction except for scattered short stories , and for many years wrote historical works in English instead. In English too was his charming autobiographical account of A Danish Boyhood in 1981. Who would have expected, then, that his last book would return to the novel form after nearly half a century …

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The Danish Immigrant Experience In The Fiction Of Enok Mortensen, Rudolf J. Jensen Jan 1987

The Danish Immigrant Experience In The Fiction Of Enok Mortensen, Rudolf J. Jensen

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Here are several short quotations from Enok Mortensen 's fiction for the purpose of showing its primary themes: " . .. for you emigrants, nothing is ever as good as it was in Denmark . .. you always have to compare . .. Over here one always possesses a peculiar unrest-only another hundred dollars, a thousand, or a million dollars more. In the old country everything was ordered and secure . .. Sons followed in the footsteps of their fathers, but as a rule they didn't get any farther either . .. Here in America it was the Golden Chance …

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Enok Mortensen As Preacher, Thorvald Hansen Jan 1987

Enok Mortensen As Preacher, Thorvald Hansen

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Unless one were aware of it, one would not be likely to guess that Enok Mortensen was an immigrant. Even when one was aware of it, one tended to forget the fact. In his speaking and in his writing, Mortensen did not portray the usual marks of a Danish immigrant. His pronunciation of English was flawless and he was no stranger to English grammar. He was as much at home in one language as the other and he was as much a part of America as he was of his native Denmark.

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Danebod Fall Meeting, Elsie S. Hansen Jan 1987

Danebod Fall Meeting, Elsie S. Hansen

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In 1943 when Enok Mortensen and his family arrived in Tyler, Minnesota, to begin his pastorate at Danebod Lutheran Church, they were greeted by a severe blizzard which prevented them from moving into the parsonage for several days. The parsonage, located across from the church, had been redecorated, cleaned, insulated and made ready for their occupancy and soon they were comfortably ensconced. This was to be their home for almost 18 years.

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Danebod Family Recreation Camps, Otto G. Hoiberg Jan 1987

Danebod Family Recreation Camps, Otto G. Hoiberg

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"The family that plays together , stays together !" Implied conversely in this generalization , one finds at least a partial explanation of the troubled waters presently navigated by the family in America. Whereas in years gone by , much recreational activity was enjoyed jointly by the various members of a family , in this day and age each member tends to go his own way to satisfy his leisure time needs and desires. After the dinner hour , Dad has a bowling engagement , Mom goes to a meeting of her Study Club , Susie heads for a Girl …

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Enok Mortensen And Askov, Hans Henningsen Jan 1987

Enok Mortensen And Askov, Hans Henningsen

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The connection between Enok Mortensen and Askov Folk High School in Denmark came about accidentally, as it were, in the middle of the 1950s. The background was that rector Knud Hansen made some critical remarks, in an interview, about the United States and American foreign policy. This caused a great to-do in the press, so much so that the American ambassador decided to visit Askov Folk High School to judge for himself whether it were possible that Askov had "gone communist." Shortly thereafter Knud Hansen received an official invitation to spend three months in the United States. The visit, which …

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Enok Mortensen As Archivist, Thorvald Hansen Jan 1987

Enok Mortensen As Archivist, Thorvald Hansen

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One cannot say with any degree of finality why Enok Mortensen became the historian and archivist of the Danish, later the American Evangelical Lutheran Church. This much, however, is obvious--he was interested in it. Only a genuine interest could have caused him to work diligently at it for a long period of time and to write the history of the church with which he had become intimately familiar. The records do not indicate that he received any monetary reward for his efforts, nor that he sought any. He hoped that others would share his interest and do whatever was in …

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Enok Mortensen And The Danes Worldwide Archives, Inger Bladt Jan 1987

Enok Mortensen And The Danes Worldwide Archives, Inger Bladt

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Enok Mortensen, whose death was a loss not only for the Danish community in America but also for Denmark, was one of the last of Denmark's sons to have intimate connections to immigrant activities at the beginning of the century, for he spent his life in a close bond with the Danish American colony.

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Enok Mortensen And The History Of Danish Immigration To America, Eric Helmer Pedersen Jan 1987

Enok Mortensen And The History Of Danish Immigration To America, Eric Helmer Pedersen

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Enok Mortensen is probably best known in Denmark through his activity as a guest lecturer at Askov Folk High School in the 1960s and 1970s. Within the confines of a small group of Danes with friends and family in America he also had a name as a writer of fiction. It is true that his first work Mit Folk (1932), a collection of short stories, was published in Askov, Minnesota, but his next, the novel Saledes blev jeg hjeml0s (1934) was published in Holb

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Enok Mortensen As A Danish-American, Erling Duus Jan 1987

Enok Mortensen As A Danish-American, Erling Duus

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Many years ago, Enok Mortensen wrote about the impact of the first singing of Kristian 0stergaard' s "Bag B0lgende Have" 1at a meeting at Nysted Folk School. For the first time, Danish-Americans had a song which moved beyond nostalgia to affirmation. It filled a need which had become powerful. It gave expression to the fact that the kind of rich cultural and spiritually generative Danishness which came to flower in the Grundtvigian movement had become implanted in the spaciousness of the plains and the prairies, and was transformed in this liberating new environment. This article 2 was characteristic of the …

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Back Matter Jan 1987

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Book Review: Historia De San Jeronimo Norte: Una Colonia Agricola-Ganadera De Inmigrantes Suizos En La Republica Argentina, Paul Neufeld Weaver Jan 1987

Book Review: Historia De San Jeronimo Norte: Una Colonia Agricola-Ganadera De Inmigrantes Suizos En La Republica Argentina, Paul Neufeld Weaver

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In the second half of the nineteenth century Argentina experienced a demographic explosion due to immigration which was unrivaled in the Western Hemisphere. Between 1857 and 1930, 3.5 million people immigrated to Argentina, almost all of them Europeans. Simultaneously, Argentina experienced a prolonged period of sustained economic growth, and by 1914 its Gross National Product surpassed that of many European countries.

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Book Review: Klimageschichte Der Schweiz 1525-1860 (Vol. I), Bevolkerung, Klima Und Agrarmodernisierung 1525-1860 (Vol. Ii), Ernest Menolfi Jan 1987

Book Review: Klimageschichte Der Schweiz 1525-1860 (Vol. I), Bevolkerung, Klima Und Agrarmodernisierung 1525-1860 (Vol. Ii), Ernest Menolfi

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Although long ago many historians realized the significance of weather information and the great impact of climate on demographic, social, economic, or agricultural development, they have up to now mostly not been in a position to make more than an episodic and illustrative use of it, since the random data was scattered in innumerable diaries, parish registers, yield records, communal and municipal archives, private observation records and the like. Most of those entries, however, do not make sense as individual bits of information (e.g. the cherry blossom time, the beginning of the vintage in one particular year). Yet by systematically …

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Book Review: Anthology Of Modern Swiss Literature, Ernest Menolfi Jan 1987

Book Review: Anthology Of Modern Swiss Literature, Ernest Menolfi

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After the publications on Yiddish, Swedish, and Austrian literature, the Anthology of Modern Swiss Literature is the fourth volume in the above-mentioned series. According to the editor, the main purpose is "to bring to the notice of readers of English some examples of the writing of present-day authors from Switzerland; underlying this aim is the conviction that these authors have their own particular messages and style, offering writing which is of a lively and varied nature. Modern Swiss literature has a range and quality that should be capable of arousing a positive and enthusiastic response among students of literature." He …

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Book Review: From Stambach To Berlin (Ontario) And The Descendents Of Rev. John W. Stoeckle/Steckle (1802/1879), Delbert Gratz Jan 1987

Book Review: From Stambach To Berlin (Ontario) And The Descendents Of Rev. John W. Stoeckle/Steckle (1802/1879), Delbert Gratz

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This work is an excellent account of a Bernese family who because of their Anabaptist faith was obliged to leave their Schwarzenburg home in 1748 and settle in the Palatinate. Since little better conditions existed there for non-state-church families, the next generation made the great move to Pennsylvania some 80 years later. After a few years in Pennsylvania they moved to the Berlin (since World War II called Kitchener) area which most of the family has called home for the past century and a half.

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Book Review: Schweizer Statt Sklaven. Schweizerische Auswanderer In Dem Kaffee-Plantagen Von Sao Paulo (1852-1866), Sylva Brunner Jan 1987

Book Review: Schweizer Statt Sklaven. Schweizerische Auswanderer In Dem Kaffee-Plantagen Von Sao Paulo (1852-1866), Sylva Brunner

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In her doctoral dissertation B. Ziegler describes in great detail an interesting chapter of Swiss emigration history, the mid-nineteenth century movement of Swiss to Brazil. Although Swiss emigrants to countries overseas had mainly chosen as their destinations domains of the United States, Brazil emerged for a time as a close second.

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