Anna Malen Hopen Oral History Interview 1981.

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Anna Malen Hopen Oral History Interview 1981.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182860897

The interview was conducted with Anna Hopen on November 2, 1981 in Tacoma, Washington. This interview provides information on family history, immigration to Norway, school, Christmas traditions, return to the U.S., feelings about leaving Norway, work in U.S., marriage, children, community involvement, church, visits to Norway, changes in Norway, and Norwegian traditions. The interview also contains Anna Hopen's husband Anton's obituary from the Western Viking and photographs of Anna's grandmother's home in Espetveit, Norway, Anna's home in Norway, Hopen, Norway, Anna and Anton at Prince William Sound in Alaska (1936), Anna in Tacoma, Washington before her family returned to Norway, Anna and her brother Oscar in Fairbanks, Alaska, and Anna and Anton at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English with some Norwegian towards the end of the interview. Also see Carl Tweiten, Martha Handeland, and Anton Hopen.

1 sound cassette.

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Hopen, Anna Malena.

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Anna Malena (Tweiten) Hopen was born on either November 13 or 25, 1913 in Lemon's Beach, Washington, which is now University Place in Tacoma. Her parents are Ommund Karlson Tweiten and Pauline Amelia Liland. Her family moved back to Norway in 1920; she attended first grade in Tacoma and then continued school in Norway. After school, she spent two winters trapping ptarmigan, an expensive delicacy in England, and lived with Ingeborg Tveiten. Her brothers and sisters began immigrating back to the U...

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Hopen, Alf Magnus.

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Tweiten, Anna Malena.

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Hopen, Sigvald Dagfin.

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Espetveit, Anna Malena Jonsdatter.

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Tveiten, Ingeborg.

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Lunde, Marte.

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Hopen, Phillip Obed.

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Hopen, Anton Magnus.

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Anton Magnus Hopen was born on January 6, 1902 in Eikefjord, Norway, which is twenty-five miles north of Bergen. His parents are Salamon Mathias Hopen and Dorthea Svardal, and he had two brothers and two sisters. They lived in Svardal for a few years and then moved to Eikefjord because his father was in the fishing industry and had to move to follow it. Anton was confirmed in 1916 and attended school until he was 15. He left home when he was 16 and worked on the telephone lines; he was foreman f...

Hopen, Junis.

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Hopen, Ruben Harold.

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Tweiten, Ommund Karlson.

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Hopen, Bruce Leon.

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Liland, Ommund Pederson Hampland.

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