Erik and Ingrid Olson were excited to be exploring their family’s Norwegian heritage. They were visiting a late-19th-century village and checking out log homes, a Lutheran church, a one-room schoolhouse, and other traditional structures. A museum added to their immersion in local lore with collections of documents, history books, and artifacts.
What made the Olsons’ journey into their Norwegian roots especially convenient is that they were able to do so without leaving the United States. They were spending time in unusually named Thief River Falls, Minnesota, at the Peder Engelstad Pioneer Village.
