Jane Rasmussen
Topics: History, Immigration Experience, Readers Theater, South Dakota
Community: Sisseton
Program Types: Speakers Bureau
https://www.sissetonmuseum.com/
janeandjohnrasmussen@gmail.com | (605) 237-6004
The Stavig Letters: The Story of a Norwegian Immigrant
(Note: This is a combined presentation with fellow Humanities scholars Curtis Dahl and John Rasmussen.)
The immigrant experience comes to life in this three-person readers’ theater program created by Dr. Wayne Knutson. Content comes directly from an extensive collection of letters written over a fifty-year period between two brothers, one who emigrated to Dakota Territory and one who stayed in Norway. The readers theatre, performed more than seventy-five times in the United States and Scandinavia, led to an Emmy-award winning documentary and a published book. In Norway, the collection of Stavig letters was accepted into UNESCO’s Memory of the World Registry.