Round trip to America

 
Round-trip to America
Round-trip to America is a project that focuses on the contact between the county of Vest-Agder and America. The lively exchange between this part of Norway and the USA lasted for more than 100 years and put its mark on the language, buildings, interior decoration and memories of both rural and urban areas in Vest-Agder. But it is only a question of time before much of this will disappear. Students in their ninth year of schooling in the county have therefore been given the task of documenting this piece of history. They have interviewed people, taken photographs, and written about how the contact with America has affected their native district or hometown.

The money that never came

                                                   In about 1900 Johan Teodor Tobiassen went to America to earn money for his wife Gesine and their four children at home in Lyngdal. Years passed, and neither money nor letters came from America. Read the story of what happened to the letters, the money and the Tobiassen family.
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Johan Teodor Tobiassen


May 17th in Brooklyn
Brooklyn was home to the largest colony of Norwegians in the USA. Many people from the Agder counties lived there – so many, in fact, that some called 8th Avenue Lista Boulevard! Take a look at our photo archive from May 17th in Brooklyn. 
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Miss Norway being driven in an open car on May 17th 1954.