TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Born Jan 31, 1920 and raised on the family farm at Kenyon, MN, my uncle Levi Stanley Finseth graduated from Byron High School in 1938. H...

Edythe Gertrude Finseth was born in 1918 to a classic second-generation Norwegian immigrant family in southern Minnesota , in an era when...

"An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf's in southern Mi...

YouTube link . Beautiful.  Posted in memory of my mother and the multiple generations of my Norwegian family who attended (and loved) St...

...the colleges of Carleton and St. Olaf held the first NCAA-sanctioned metric football game . The “Liter Bowl,” played on September 17...

The fight song for St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota) can be heard on several YouTube clips (including at the 2:00 mark here with 15 p...

A screencap from the Coen brothers' 2009 film "A Serious Man" (the image has been manipulated for the movie by extending th...

YouTube link .  My family ties to St. Olaf College go back to its founding in 1874, so it was a distinct pleasure for me last night to ...

My family's ties to St. Olaf go back all the way to the school's founding, when my great-grandfather Ole Knut Finseth was one of...