My Favorite Recipes By Linda Marler

Meet Ann Emerson, Colfax, and Phyllis Stueckle, LaCrosse

Ann Emerson and her sister Corinne Aune Stitzer traveled back to their father’s hometown of Selbu, Norway, in 1987.

Ann Emerson

It was quite an experience seeing the land that their ancestors left to come to America.

Besides Selbu, they visited Bergen and Oslo, Norway. It was so beautiful that they wondered why their family ever left Norway. The answer is that the population of Norway was growing, and people needed more land, as occurred in many countries at that time.

Norway was absolutely gorgeous in May. Farms of about forty acres wer...