More Glimpses into the Life of the Emigrant.

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Mrs. I. at home in Dartmouth, 12 years after her imprisonment by the NAZI's at Grini Concentration Camp, Oslo. (J.Isaksen archives)

Norwegian emigrant fishermen and fishermen's daughters gather for a picnic and sing at Fort Phoenix, Fairhaven. MA.
circa 1960, courtesy Mery Vilhelmsen collection

The end of the Second World War in Norway and Oddvar S. proudly leads his Resistance troops in a grand parade. They had done sabateur work in Oslo and he was about to become a student in Boston and a fisherman in New Bedford, Massachusetts. (Solstaad archives)

Norwegian emigrant women entertain themselves in Fairhaven with their string band in the late thirties. They were to stay close throughout their lives.

The Stanley Butler on a cold winter day circa 1960

One of the youngest Norwegian-Americans in Fairhaven, circa 1996.

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FOLLOWING THE WATERS (p.1) | LIVES OF NORWEGIAN-AMERICANS (p.2) | GLIMPSES INTO EMIGRANT LIFE (p.3) | LIVES OF NORWEGIAN-AMERICANS (p.4)