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Letters From Hampton, James Iversen, Birgit Flemming Larsen, Berry Johnson, Doreen Petersen Jan 2010

Letters From Hampton, James Iversen, Birgit Flemming Larsen, Berry Johnson, Doreen Petersen

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A unique house filled with memories and memorabilia stands on the west edge of the Franklin County Seat town of Hampton, Iowa. The house and barn and 12 acres, situated in a pleasant & picturesque semi-rural setting, was the home of the Christian Nielsen and his wife Anna, born Jensen, from the time of their purchase of the property in 1920 until the death of their youngest daughter in 2001.


Til Oldefar Jens, Kelsi Vanada Jan 2010

Til Oldefar Jens, Kelsi Vanada

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From Samsø To California & Return 1952, Edvard Degn, Harald Degn Jan 2010

From Samsø To California & Return 1952, Edvard Degn, Harald Degn

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Two brothers, Edvard and Harald Degn, decided in 1952 to travel from their home on the island of Samsø, Denmark to the United States in order to visit their brother, Alfred Degn, who lived in Santa Maria, California, and who had emigrated from Denmark in 1926, 26 years earlier.


Front Cover Jan 2010

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Editorial Statement Jan 2010

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Front Matter Jan 2010

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Contributors Jan 2010

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Boganis In America: The American Adventures Of Karen Blixen's Father, Wilhelm Dinesen Jan 2010

Boganis In America: The American Adventures Of Karen Blixen's Father, Wilhelm Dinesen

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Sick at heart and world-weary at the age of twenty-seven, Captain Wilhelm Dinesen (1845-95) turned his back on Europe and set sail for America. The year was 1872. Danish immigration was on the rise, and many immigrants dreamed of making their fortune in the land of opportunity. Dinesen had other reasons. His fortune was already secure, for he had been born to wealth and privilege. As a young man, however, he had gone to war, but war had led to defeat, and defeat to bloody civil war. How could he forget the horrors he had seen and experienced? What he …


Piet Hein ( 1905-1996): A Renaissance Man, Inger M. Olsen Jan 2010

Piet Hein ( 1905-1996): A Renaissance Man, Inger M. Olsen

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A man who in the year 2000 had had his collections of poems and Crooks published in 1,700,000 copies, who had invented lamp shades, a sundial, and the super ellipse as well as games, who had received the Dansk Design Center's annual prize in 1989 should be easy to locate among people whose biography have been written. Those were my thoughts when I started researching this paper, and great was my surprise when I found that was not at all the case.


Back Matter Jan 2010

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Dairying, Creameries And Cooperatives: Danish Agricultural Contributions To Early Twentieth Century Alberta, Kirstin Bouwsema Jan 2010

Dairying, Creameries And Cooperatives: Danish Agricultural Contributions To Early Twentieth Century Alberta, Kirstin Bouwsema

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The early history of what became the province of Alberta in 1905 is characterized largely by the agricultural industry. A great majority of the early twentieth century immigrants came to Alberta expecting to participate in some way in the agricultural economy. However, the farming methods that were implemented in the province varied considerably. Partly, this variation was due to differences in naturally existing phenomena such as climate, soil conditions, and landscape. However, practices also varied due to the cultural backgrounds of the farmers. The First Nations people who had lived on the land for millennia used farming methods far different …


Reviews Jan 2010

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Danish Gardening Traditions: From Jutland To America, J. R. Christianson Jan 2010

Danish Gardening Traditions: From Jutland To America, J. R. Christianson

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When I was a boy, my mother sometimes took me along to Neil Neilsen Florists when she needed flowers for a special occasion. Upon arriving, she always went into the greenhouse to look for Agnes Neilsen. I remember the humid, earthy atmosphere under those immense glass roofs. We walked between endless rows of plants until we spied Agnes at work by one of the flowerbeds. Mother always liked to visit with her. The Neilsens were Danish, and so were we.


Memoirs From A Journey In America 1872, Wilhelm Dinesen Jan 2010

Memoirs From A Journey In America 1872, Wilhelm Dinesen

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It was in the late summer of 1872 when I traveled to America. I was sick of soul. I had participated in the Franco-Prussian War, had seen my hopes for redress of [ the Danish defeat of] 1864 shattered, and had then been a witness to the civil war in Paris. I was nauseated by both sides, had then lived in both Denmark and France, but I felt uncomfortable, restless, tired, worn out, weak. I doubted my own ability to achieve anything whatever, and then came some personal problems-and I gave up everything and went to America. What I thought …


Full Issue Jan 2010

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Membership Application Jan 2010

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The Great Dane: Georg Brandes In America, Julie K. Allen Jan 2010

The Great Dane: Georg Brandes In America, Julie K. Allen

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Although his name is not familiar to most 21st-century Americans, the Danish literary critic Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was the most internationally-renowned Danish intellectual of the early 19th century. Aspiring writers from half a dozen countries deluged him with manuscripts to review, while German, English, and American tourists in Copenhagen believed, as Brandes remarked in a letter to Asta Nielsen in October 1920, that “I belong to the sights of Copenhagen as much as the Round Tower.”


Editorial Statement Jan 2010

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Inside Cover Jan 2010

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Intern At The Harriman-Nielsen Farm: Where To Begin?, Nana Mikkelsen Jan 2009

Intern At The Harriman-Nielsen Farm: Where To Begin?, Nana Mikkelsen

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During the months of October and November 2008, I interned on the Harriman-Nielsen Farm in Hampton, Iowa. The Danish American Heritage Society was looking for a Danish intern to assist the Harriman-Nielsen Farm board in the process of creating an interpretive exhibition, which would tell the stories of the estate. I immediately thought it would be a good place for me to apply my professional training in a combination of dramaturgy and museology. I find it interesting to introduce theatre elements into a museum context.


Contributors Jan 2009

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The Way It Was, Thorvald Hansen Jan 2009

The Way It Was, Thorvald Hansen

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When New York is mentioned, it seems that thoughts inevitably tum to a very large city, tall buildings, and with sidewalks and streets crowded with unfriendly people. The latter is only partially true, but it fits the common understanding, or perhaps one should say, misunderstanding, of the city and, more importantly, the state.


Full Issue Jan 2009

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Back Matter Jan 2009

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Reviews Jan 2009

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An American Presidential Election In The Eyes Of A European Observer, Louis Christensen Jan 2009

An American Presidential Election In The Eyes Of A European Observer, Louis Christensen

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After "election fever" ran rampant in the United States throughout the year 2008 and Europe was also "running a temperature," it might raise a few eyebrows to read what a European observer wrote home after having attended the presidential election in 1848.