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In 2013, Sons of Norway lodges and members gave more than 500,000 hours of volunteerism and $1 million to their communities. The Sons of Norway also maintains a large library of Nordic works. It operates a retirement home called Norse Home , located in Seattle .
The National Nordic Museum (previously Nordic Heritage Museum and then Nordic Museum) is a museum in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States, dedicated to the Nordic history, art, culture, and the heritage of the area's Nordic immigrants. It was founded in 1980 as the Nordic Heritage Museum, moved into a permanent ...
Seattle underground; a pictorial story with historical footnotes and interesting anecdotes about the forgotten city beneath modern Seattle. Seattle, WA: Seattle Guide. ASIN B0007HLBEA. Speidel, William (1967). Sons of the Profits or There's No Business Like Grow Business The Seattle Story 1851–1901. USA: Nettle Creek. ISBN 0-914890-06-9.
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The Sons of Norway have lodges to teach making lefse to younger generations. A lodge in Vancouver, Washington, uses up to 60 pounds (27 kg) of potatoes to make lefse every month. [15] While lefse used to be eaten as a snack food, it is now more often made in large quantities for such lutefisk dinners. [2]
Starting in the early 1920s, skiers from Cle Elum, Puget Sound and Seattle's King Street Station would ride the Northern Pacific Railroad to the Martin, Washington stop. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The Seattle train left at 8AM, took about 3 hours to travel to Martin, waited 6 hours for the skiers and returned by 8PM.
Sons of Norway, the olden kingdom, sing to the harps the festive sounds! Manly and full of solemnity let the music rise, Our song consecrateth the ancestral land. Memories of ancestors gloriously return, each time we mention our ancestral roots. Hearts swelling with pride and glowing cheeks hail the beloved, the sacred name;
Norsemen left the area that is now the modern state of Norway during the Viking Age expansion, with results including the settlement of Iceland and the conquest of Normandy. [ 1 ] In the 1500s and 1600s there was a small scattering of Norwegian people and culture as Norwegian tradesmen moved along the routes of the timber trade .