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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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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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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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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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Front Cover Jan 1987

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Contents Jan 1987

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Front Matter Jan 1987

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Contributors 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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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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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 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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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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Editorial Statement Jan 1987

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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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Many Excellent People: Power And Privilege In North Carolina 1850-1900 (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers Nov 1986

Many Excellent People: Power And Privilege In North Carolina 1850-1900 (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers

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Review of the book, Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina 1850-1900 by Paul D. Escott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

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Economic Activities Of Children In Two Iranian Villages, Akbar Aghajanian Oct 1986

Economic Activities Of Children In Two Iranian Villages, Akbar Aghajanian

Sociology Department Faculty Working Papers

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Agricultural Structure And Change: Litchfield County, Connecticut, William H. Groff Aug 1986

Agricultural Structure And Change: Litchfield County, Connecticut, William H. Groff

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

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Poverty In Connecticut: 1979, Kenneth P. Hadden Jun 1986

Poverty In Connecticut: 1979, Kenneth P. Hadden

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

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Elderly Population Of Connecticut: 1980, The, Kenneth P. Hadden Jan 1986

Elderly Population Of Connecticut: 1980, The, Kenneth P. Hadden

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

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He Came, He Saw, He Conquered, Aase Bak Jan 1986

He Came, He Saw, He Conquered, Aase Bak

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Every morning when President Reagan leaves the White House and casts worried glances to the left toward Capitol Hill where Congress sits and impedes life for him, he can hardly avoid seeing the equestrian statue in front of the Treasury Building. The statue is one of the great heroes of the United States, a victor from the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman. He is shown mounted and surrounded by symbols of war and peace.

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Book Reviews Jan 1986

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Contents Jan 1986

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Sketches Of My Life, Karl Larsen Jan 1986

Sketches Of My Life, Karl Larsen

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There will be a Christmas greeting card on the drawing board in Danish-born artist Karl Larsen's Detroit studio this fall, just as there has been every year since 1932 when he began the tradition. But today , at age 97, his Christmas list has grown to between 400 and 500 names and it takes longer to address and stamp all the specially designed cards than it does to make the original.

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Front Matter Jan 1986

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Back Matter Jan 1986

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