https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/477f183e2298755931b16adb965d7cd9.pdf 49c27d0ed4eb6d5da9a7032ee4a1c5f2 PDF Text Text 1825 1925 JORDAN HALL October 17tb - 18th, 1925 BOSTON, MASS. �THE PURPOSE OF THIS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION is to commemorate in an impressive manner the events which mark the beginning of Norse emigration to this continent and to pay a fitting tribute to the Norwegian pioneers of America. In the rush of our present day life we fail to honor, as we should, those plain, earnest, God-£earing, modest, but strong and courageous men and women, who did so much for their descendants and the land of their adoption. HISTORICAL SKETCH In the New York Daily Advertiser for October 12, 1825, appeared an article, headed "A Novel Sight", which says, 111 part: "A vessel has arrived at this port with emigrants from Norway. The vessel\ is very small, measuring, as we under stand, only about 360 Norwegian lasts, or forty-five American tons, and brought fifty-three passengers, male and female, all bound for Orleans county, where an: agent who came over some time since, purchased a tract o.f land. "The appearance of such a party of stran'ge"i-s, coming from so distant a country and in a vessel of a size apparently ill calculated for a voyage across, the Atlantic, could not but excite an unusual degree of interest. "An enterprise like this argues a good ·deal of boldness the master of the vessel, as well as an adventurous spirit in the passengers, most of whom belong to families from the vicinity of a little town at the southwestern extremity of Norway, near the city of Stavanger. Those who came from the farms are dressed in coarse cloth of domestic manu facture of a fashion different from the Americans, but those who inhabited the town wear calicos, ginghams and gay sl1awls, imported, we presume, from England. 111 "The vessel is built on the model common to fishing boats on that coast, with a single top-sail, sloop-rigged. She arrived with the addition of one passenger born on the way.' �The little vessel, whose arrival in New York a hundred years ago aroused such interest, was the now famous sloop "Restaurationen" (The Restoration). The article printed above was copied by the Baltimore American, as well as many other papers, and was read with general interest. But the people who saw or read about the strange ship, little realized the importance of its coming; nor did the passengers themselves have any feeling or premonition that they were making history-that they were the forerunners of an exodus of people from Norway to a new world, where they might enjoy more room and greater opportunities. The sloop "Restaurationen", the M:iyflower of the North, sailed out of Stavanger harbor on America's Independence day, July 4th, 1825. \tVhether the party selected that day for their departure by chance or with a full realization of its significance we have not been told. After a perilous and romantic voyage through the British Channel and by th� way of the Island Madeira, they reached New York on October 9th, 1825. Every one of the passengers that went on bo.ard at Stavanger landed in good health and spirits, and their number had been increased on the way by the arrival of the "Sloop baby"-a daughter born to the leader of the party and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Lars Larson. -- In the North lies our beautiful Sa_qa land In the arms of the God of the sea; There the sun glows red in the noon of night;. There, thousand-hued, th-e Northern Light Glcmns weird over fjord and lea! I am longing to roam, in that beautifitl land Dear land where my fathers have dwelt! And feel the inspiring breezes blow Froni the cloud-lil,e cliffs of eternal snow, li1y mother as ai child has felt. I am longing to hear th-e tinlding bells And the shepherd's clarion call Ring o'er the tarns, the falls and the rills, R-ing t.hrough the 1.mles, ring round the hills, And away to the mountains tall. �1 ORGAN SELECTION 2 INTRODUCTION by Presiding Officer Rev. A. N. Gilbertson 3 by Chairman of the Committee WELCOME Mr. Alexander E. Hansen 4 PRAYER 5 HYMN l J Rev. B. E. Carlsen E. S. Rice Choir from Norwegian Congr. Free church Director, Mr. Fred Gronber{( 6 FLUTE SOLO 1. Fantasie Brilli�nte Harold Wahl Ernest Ko·h/er Miss Olga Gram at the piano 7 SOPRANO SOLO 1. 2. Miss Anna M. Wollnzann Monte Pincio Solveigs Song Grieg Miss Gertrude Sundlie at the Piano 8 ADDRESS by His Excellency Alvan Fuller Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 9 "AMERICA" Sung by the Audience l j �10 ADDRESS by the Hon. Jarnes M. Curley Mayor of the City of .Boston 11 Harold Wahl FLUTE SOLO 1. "La Traviata," Concert-Waltz Wm. Popp Miss Olga Gram at the piano 12 13 by Rev. A. M. Trelstad ADDRESS Pastor Norw.-banish M. E. Church, Philadelphia, Penn. SOPRANO SOLO 1. 2. Miss Anna M. Wollmann Kjerulj Thrane Min elskte jeg er bunden Norwegian Echo Song Miss Gertrude Sundlie at the Piano • ]4 Mr. Georg T. Vedeler INTRODUCING Norwegian Vice- Consul of Boston 15 16 ' "JA VI ELSKER DETTE LANDET" ' ·r MIXED CHOIRS 1. 2. l l Sung by the Audience Naar fjordene blaaner National Echo Norw. Congr. Free church. "Our Savior's" Luth. Church of East Boston Directors, Mr. Fred Griinberf(, Mr. 0. Walter S<Vensen 17 SONG 1. "Norge, Norge" Male Quartet. 18 Wendelborg Norw. Congr. Free church "STAR SPANGLED BANNER" Sung by the Audience �Sunday, October I8th, I925 AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL (Tremont St., near Park St., Boston) GRAND COMMEMORATION SERVICE AT 3 P. M. , SHARP Sermon by Bishop Petersen, Stavanger, Norway Choirs from Norwegian Congr. Free church, "Our Savior's Lutheran Church of East Boston Miss Helene Trolsaas, Soprano, Miss Esther Olsen, Violin BANQ-UET AT "OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN CHURCH 28 Paris St., East Boston Sunday Evening, October 18th, 1925 AT 6.30 P. M. GUEST OF HONOR: Bishop Petersen, Stavanger, Norway �STAR-SPANGLED BANNER I Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light, \iVhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ·whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the ,perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; Oh ! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? JA, VI ELSKER DETTE LANDET Ja, vi elsker dette Landet, som <let stiger frem furet, veibidt over Yandet med de tusen Hjem. Elsker, elsker det og trenker paa vor Far· og Mor, : ,: og den Saganat som srenker Drnmme paa vor Jord.·':,: AMERICA' I My country, 'tis of 'thee,· Sweet. land of liberty) Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride, From every mountain side Let freedom ring. Our fathers' God, to -thee, Author of liberty, To thee Jwe· sing. Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light, Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King! �The £estivals in Boston are given under the auspi ces of the following Churches and Societies, "Our Sav:iour's" Norweg:ian Lutheran Church Norweg:ian Congr. Free church Norweg:ian-Dan:ish M. E. Church •• N orweg:ian Society'' •• Norumbega'' Soc:iety "Sons of Norway" "Old People's Home" "Fredensborg" 0. G. T. Norweg:ian-Amer:ican Soccer Club I. EXECUTIVE COMMrrTEE Cha:irman: Iv1r. Alexander E. Hansen Secretary: Mr. Le:if Gjerstad Treasurer: Mr. Rudolph Martens PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rev. 0. Nielsen Mr. Andrew Sutterud Rev. A. N. Gabertson Dr. E. Nyman F:igved FINANCE COMMITTEE Rev. B. E. Carlsen Mr. Rudolph Martens Haymarltt P1111 136 Wa1hi11Fton St., Bo,ton � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norse-American Centennial Papers (P0562) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context P0562 Description An account of the resource Correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, programs, clippings, pictures, pamphlets, and scrapbooks of an association incorporated in 1925 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to supervise the observance of the arrival of the first group of Norwegian immigrants in America. The collection describes in detail the management of the celebration and gives data on observances in Chicago, Canada, Boston, and Brooklyn. Letters and essays reveal the loyalty of Norwegian Americans to their cultural heritage and the rivalry among area groups of Norwegians in America. The celebration was initiated by the bygdelags. The chief officials were Gisle Bothne, S. H. Holstad, J. A. Holvik, Elisa P. Farseth, and Mrs. Wm. O. Storlie. 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