[Magdalen] Sons (and Daughters) of Norway.

[Jay Weigel]

Just as a side note, when I was in my late teens/ early 20s, after the
opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, one of the fun things about going to
Milwaukee was checking out the visiting merchant sailors. We girls pretty
universally agreed that the Scandinavian ones were the best looking, and we
all felt sorry for the little groups of Russian sailors with their
omnipresent forbidding gray "nannies" in civilian clothing (ill-fitting,
generally--as if that were the mark of a "proper" Commie!).

On Thursday, June 11, 2015, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Ronkainen
>
>  Wonder what brought so many Norwegians to NYC area or what kept them
>> there? I'm 1/4  Norwegian -from the Dakota/Minnesota "stock".
>>
>
> Many were seamen and their families.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
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