Twentieth Century
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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From the Archives: Last Hope Island
Often when we’re traveling, something we see makes me think about posts from the past, books I’ve read, or posts from the past about books I’ve read. While we were in Norway, that book/post was Lynne Olsen’s Last Hope Island. As soon as we got home, I pulled it off the shelf and have been…
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