From the Archives: The Mother Jones Monument

It’s Labor Day here in the United States.  One of the things I do to celebrate is to share a post from the past about major players in the early American labor movement.  I think it’s important to remember that the labor movement fought hard for many things we shouldn’t take for granted, like  a…

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Road Trip Through History: The Resistance Museum in Oslo

The Resistance Museum in Oslo was not included in our history tour of Norway.* That turned out to be a good thing in my opinion. My Own True Love and I spent the entire morning at the museum on our own the day after the tour ended. We would have been frustrated at being hurried…

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Little Norway and Sigrid Schultz

First, let me say that this post is not about either the now defunct Little Norway living history site in Wisconsin or Little Norway Resort in Minnesota, which are the first things that a Google search of Little Norway will pull up. Instead it is the story of the main training camp for the Royal…

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