Henehan DV: Walter Mondale

Why why do. I. Want to see the main. Ones to see the circumstances under which whose whole lives it. Actually comes forward to receive it. If you haven't again there's been a brick for a

couple of years ago when our economy had to recycle I guess. And then to cancel today I wish to know whether they come from. I think we. Are delighted to be back in. Carmel. Be able to spend the weekend and. We're going to have a family.

Especially as he retraces the voyage his great grandfather took over a century ago. Sometimes your thoughts flying to where once your cradles feel your heart. They are delighted to be back again and I bring you greetings from

all of your friends and relatives in the United States and there are many many of them I don't know many of you but all of your faces look familiar. We are delighted to be here and to have this chance to celebrate Easter with relatives of ours and old friends of ours. We love this place in the White House. In my office 30 feet from the president of the United States you will see beautiful pictures on the wall both alone. And every time the president comes in he said where is this beautiful place. And I said you should see it. You should see it. We are thrilled to be here we are especially pleased that you would honor us by turning out in such numbers. It warms our heart. It makes us feel at home and we look forward to being with you for the next few days. Thank you very very much. Thank you.

Thank you. My. Mother. Was one of the five kids. And not a father of two. That's when you know change the name to Monday. Some of the. Family that had been staying here many hundreds so here we have

read about the names from about sixteen hundred and so on but that doesn't mean that they are just that nobody has. Put it down on paper. And these people had to be invest the normally comparatively good homes. Because you see for yourself the country here that could be easily. Cut today. So they were living happily but in no way they have a very very tight. I'm just in a fantasy sometimes to take over the farm. Very often very little money. So he would have a good family living for himself and his family but his brothers and sisters. And undoubtedly run about you know last century. Too many have determined. That could. Possibly live comfortably.

Yeah. And then came this wonderful opening all over the country. There was such a rush to get to the United States Frederick my great great grandfather was born. In a community just outside of the fear of a cure. Across the ball a straw called functionless and he was named boxes for the boxes. He came down here mad and married a woman. Who owned this farm where I'm here which was one of the best farms in the valley. And apparently in those days and I gather still today you would take the name of the farm and the community rather than such last names as you were given. And so he. Renamed himself Frederick. And they they started a family here. Including my my

grandfather only. And. In 1857. My great grandfather and mother my grandfather and two other children died in a rowboat right here. And left. And went to I believe almost got on an ocean going vessel and went to the new land. And one wonders what kind of thoughts went through their minds at that time. Never been on the ocean. They were not. They were not fishermen here they were finally years. Ahead. They did not speak English. Did not know much about America because they were among the first to go there. Norwegians emigrated started eight hundred twenty five but just trickles. The real waves of immigration didn't start until after the Civil War so they couldn't know all that much about America. It was unusual in those days for a person who owned land to

leave. The people early or who left were people young people usually with no. Future in farming. But for some reason they did leave and such a marvelous find I wonder. So I order at the end. I give him one reason last night when I greeted him into the house and I said that I think it's great grandfather of yours had a special trip to have something new to get up to to proceed just because he actually I didn't try. It was not necessary for him to leave it to go on living with his family but that I must have some dry eyes. To make him go and I think you must have inherited that as you have got to the next highest position in Indian country. Well I often kill the Norwegian ambassador when I see him by saying that when I was in the Senate I represented more Norwegians than he did and he admits it's

true. In fear allow. The place to come from a place to come to a few hundred Norwegians about their lives in this simple farm village. Life clusters around a school and a church. Majestic mountains frame a few dozen well-kept home. Main street of shops with simple necessities. For the daily ferry. A few miles of good roads to the century old till Monday. And time. To enjoy it all. Yeah.

Thank you very much. For. That. What does he want to find here. Great came from and

I can give you many stories and that he can mostly come back here for this. PRESS. Interest. Had become. We had people coming in they came from we don't know quite where they came. And they know. The. Way to the top.

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seriously do it every year. It isn't professional to take all age groups up to the 60s. They keep a special time in each but it was interesting that except for the number one winners all the cops were coming in second place or showing but for having participated on a reward I gather community spirit. This. Guy at. One race handed seven cops and five or move. We were elated.

I thought that unfortunately none of us are landfill or that of this man. And I think all of us try in our own way to aim for something that's what they said biking means aiming for something. In my case it's been a public career. I think that. Personal. Personal standards of honesty of religious belief. Of intellectual curiosity and to the extent possible intellectual accidence excellence of education this family here for example one daughter is a leading man a stranger of a college. The other son who we are with all of today is one of the world's most accomplished glacial ologist. And is an expert and traveled frequently in both the north and south pole is head of the Norwegian polar Institute recently in this peculiar study to see if they can haul an iceberg up to Saudi Arabia and so on he spent a lot of his life living in that glacier up fairly often.

And that kind of. Edgy curiosity for education was very strong in my family. Everyone when I got educated had what one learned in the importance of learning in the. And the mind. Also the music and the arts. I mean the other that the folk dancing they get together and have a lot of fun together as families the families very important or the children are very important. And it's a lot of fun. I think my experience degree everybody going back

this is special but I suspect everyone else feels the same way about. Themselves and their rights and their people. And I feel better about my roots and feel better about where I came from I think I know a little bit better who I like and saying See here are the values that I inherited. And yet I think it's important not to go too far with I think each generation and each surrounding each person has to make. Something of himself or herself in the context of the world in which we live. And one should not over romanticize or make to. Two currently relevant. I mean this is it's better appreciate it. And just in her human terms loving and being with people seeing where you came from and enjoying it. You're.