The first gallery is up! These are Vesterheim pictures from the from the Norwegian home exhibit.
Interesting points?
1. Notice that everything is colorful, coated with rosemaling. A minster’s wife who visited Norwegian immigrants in the states thought that their homes were garish, because of all the colors.
2. Elaborate woodwork? You betcha, even though the home at the Vesterheim is a farm house.
3. Not so many rooms. Actually, a three-generation family lived in two rooms.
4. Beds by the fire. Because, yup, that’s heat.
5. Notice–stone hearths!
Here’s all of the pictures.
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Today the troll story underwent trimming, rather than gaining. The new leaner Weight Watchers version of the story is represented in tonight’s word count.
11315 / 90000 words. 13% done!
