I visited the Stavanger city archive this morning. After signing in I was given a tour when I said I was interested in finding out what they had. The main reading room is well lit and has a few rows of shelves with books on local issues, some of which can be found down the [...]
After a night and morning of heavy rain, the sun emerged from the thinning clouds this afternoon, long enough for me to put my reading aside for a few hours and go out to enjoy it. I hunted down my young cousin, borrowed his bicycle and went on a short bike ride to one of [...]
I have finally gotten around to reading a book for youth written by a family friend, Gunnar Skadberg about Rogaland (the county I’m currently in here in Stavanger) during WWII, «Livet er å velge: en bok om andre verdenskrig i Rogaland – skrevet for ungdom». In his opening descriptions he recounts a bizarre but ultimately [...]
Carleen has made the newspaper for her efforts to organize “Game Day” at Bartlesville public library. They have been exploring ways of reaching teens at her library and she is putting her studies in library science in her masters program to work in the field!
I came to the library this morning to pick up a book I had requested on the early postwar treason trials in Norway. The library building is housed along with the town’s movie theater, public art exhibition space, a children’s museum and a coffee shop in a well lit glass and steel complex known as [...]
As I mentioned in an early posting, Norway’s resistance was very rarely a violent or military effort. One of the primary reasons was that, like anyone in the countless modern wars where occupying militaries collectively punished the local community for acts of sabotage, Norwegians feared reprisals from the occupying German forces. This is one of [...]
I’m enjoying a month back in my hometown where I’m trying to teach myself basic reading of German and reading about treason trials and political retribution in early postwar Norway and Denmark. I am also enjoying this time back here to hang out with my friends and relatives of course. The most fun way of [...]
According to today’s Aftenposten, the remains of 13 missing Norwegian soldiers, members of the so-called “frontkjempere” (Norwegians fighting for the Germans on the eastern front in WWII). They were found on the 20th of August by an expedition suspiciously named, “For the Fatherland.” They also found the remains of 9 Russian soldiers and some old [...]
I finished my summer of language study in Seoul and I’m on my way to Norway. I’m writing this in Dubai airport while waiting for my flight to London. I’m enjoying a McDonald’s “McArabia Meal” which the advertisements assure me will offer me an “authentic taste” of this region. I knew I could trust the [...]