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Uncovering History In Our Own Backyard Solvang. Uncovering History in our own Backyard
Dr. Solberg has his own stamp on discovering American history. ...
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Uncovering History in our own Backyard
Dr. Solberg has his own stamp on discovering American history. He has had a long interest in the ordinary person and was quoted as saying “People that carry history are a needed part of our past.” He did his doctorates on diaries from the 18th century. And has sent much of his time studying letters sent to Norway during the 1930s and 1940s. Dr. Solberg started the lecture by asking Olle and Marie Mellin to stand up in the audience they are both in the American Scandinavian foundation and have set up scholarships for Scandinavian studies. Solberg was quoted as saying “They where pillars of the American foundation.”
Solberg told of a book that he felt had a connection with what he was doing in Solvang. The name of the book was Prairie Earth by “William least HeatMoon.” Heatmoon did a cultivation of land in the Midwest wand with that went through the history of the land from the Indians to the present. Almost like a de-mapping of the land.
Slides came on the screen from the American Post magazine. This magazine was what covered American life during the time of Solberg\'s childhood, almost every American home had one. In an issue dated January 1947 an article told of Solvang being an “Original Danish community.” This article had a profound effect on tourism. Land prices went sky high and Solvang became a tourist town.
There are three areas that Solberg will cover in the lecture, the first being the background of Solvang, the second will cover the time from 1911 through 1916, and the third being his own experience from the 60s. After graduating from UCSB Solberg went to Europe and after his return he felt he felt a strong interest in cultivating history. It was at this time he decided to do Solvang. He decided to do an oral history. “If you fail to get oral history you lose parts of history.” Solberg did not tape anyone with out there permission was able to collect photos...
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