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Folk fair, Board meeting, pie social, Blaine Hedberg, other happenings Knitting
artist Elspeth Lavold Returns, February 21–22, 2009 Remember Nordmann's Forbundet? Thank you, Carolyn Gabrielsen Barstad! Grand Opening of the Ager Resource Library Glimpses
into my Grandfather's Scrapbooks Ager
House: the early days (part one of a series) |
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| [Waldemar Theodor Ager] carried
on activities that were of incalculable benefit not only to his
own group, but to America as a whole. He was surely one of the
most outstanding Norwegians ever to settle in the United States. --Einar Haugen, in Immigrant Idealist |
 Waldemar T. Ager |
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Having the house as a focal point helps us to bring other parts of the Ager story to the community. We want to "reconstruct' Ager, not just as an important Norwegian-American, but as a writer of excellent fiction, as the editor of an influential newspaper for forty years, as a civic leader, and as a popular speaker through the world. We want to draw out all of the "contexts" for Waldemar Ager's remarkable presence in the first four decades of the twentieth century. --Timothy
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