Martha Tweiten Handeland Oral History Interview 1981.

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Martha Tweiten Handeland Oral History Interview 1981.

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The interview was conducted with Martha Handeland on October 27, 1981 in Tacoma, Washington. This interview provides information on parents' life in Tacoma before moving back to Norway in 1920, family background, voyage to Norway, life and schooling in Norway, American-Norwegian Christmas traditions, household responsibilities, return trip to Canada and Seattle, life in Tacoma, marriage, children's lives, maintenance of Norwegian traditions. It also contains a photograph of Martha Handeland and a photograph of Martha and her husband Torvald. The interview was conducted in English with some Norwegian towards the end of the interview. Also see Carl Tweiten, Anna Hopen, and Torvald Handeland.

1 sound cassette.

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