No concert this week,
although there are many to choose from .... rather, Tuesday evening -- the
concluding night of April 2019 -- will be spent listening to a young lady
photographer from Bergen -- not Anita, unfortunately -- but Sigrid Lien, who is
a professor of art history and photography studies at the University of Bergen.
Ms. Lien, cited as
"a leading authority on Norwegian photography," will be discussing
her new book, "Pictures of Longing: Photography and the Norwegian-American
Migration," at Norway House in Minneapolis -- a mere 30-minute drive from
my own house. The book contains more than 250 photographs sent home by some of
the 750,000 Norwegians who immigrated to North America between 1836 and 1915.
My own ancestors arrived here in the 1850s from Norway and Germany.
According to a press
release, "Seeing these photographs alongside letters by Norwegian
immigrants provides a comprehensive account of how this collective photography
practice involves 'the voice of the many.'"
Ms. Lien's appearance in Minnnneeeesoootttaaa is sponsored by
the Norwegian American Historical Association. Admission is $15 -- a bargain at
ten times the price, I would think. I assume her book will be on sale at the
event and I definitely will purchase a copy.
The photograph accompanying this post is of the book,
with Ms. Lien inset in the lower left corner. Her stop here is one of several
as part of a tour through the United States. And, just to keep this sort of a
Bergen post, the video shows a band, Fairy, composed of young ladies from
Bergen singing the song, "Capture" .... hmmmm ....
As indicated by the
title of the post, this blog will be visible to any and to all who pass by
during the next two days, then will retreat behind the curtains again for a
while ....
6 comments:
Hello
You know something about black indians? I want to know. In drawings, they appear near spanish. In maya sculptures, too.
Thank you.
Best regards!
Hah hah I had to laugh a litte reading the intro..If Sigrid wants some photoes from old Bergen she can ask me got alot of them..Think her book will be great
Will have a sneak peak of it..
Fairy band never hear of but interesting band.Btw how are you?Out doing mischiefs again are you??Just kidding .Here we have summertime and hot hot.Moving into my new flat these days..So happy and content about it..Really big place..Can dance the tango in the rooms.Not done anything else.No vacation this year.No photoes.But there are many enough on the net.Actually looking for the one who brings a little life into the shoots A picture which show me "life"in it..Otherwise it is of no importance to me. .But again I am just a silly one..
Hope everything is nice and have a good time out there..
Sorry much errors writing from my cellphone
Big hugs dear friend!
Soo good too get an update . Know I think of you
Anita
Thank you, Robert, for coming and for reading and for writing here. I cannot give you more than a general answer to your question.
I assume you are aware the Moors ruled much of Spain for eight centuries, and the Moors were predominantly black Africans and Arabs. The blood of many groups intermingled and many of the soldiers who were among the conquistador invasion of the Americas were descendants of those whose blood intermingled during the time of the Moors. That is as much as I know and can say about that topic.
Two regiments of all-black United States army cavalry, the 9th and 10th cavalries, were formed after Congress passed legislation in 1866. The 10th was at formed at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, and had troops at Fort Riley, Fort Hays and Fort Harker, and ranged throughout the Great Plains.
I lived on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana for a time. It is a reservation for the Assiniboine and the Sioux. It was not unusual to encounter individuals with very distinct black characteristics and features, descendants of "friendly encounters" between young ladies of Native American heritage and troopers from the "Buffalo soldier" units. I saw the same while living in Dakota.
It would require more research for me to comment regarding specifics.
My blog is not going to be particularly active for a while and locked to general access. If you would like to have "anytime access," provide a current email address and I will put you on the list of those who can come and go at their leisure whether I am there or not.
It is difficult to remember an Upper Great Plains spring as strange as this one, Anita. There have been temperatures approaching 80 degrees Fahrenheit one day and literally freezing temperatures with snow the next day. I had ten inches of snow about a week ago and it had melted within four or five days. There were three to four inches of snow twenty miles from me just two days ago, but nothing here .... strange weather indeed.
I hope you will be happy and content in your new dwelling. It sounds like it is sweet and nice and comfortable, and that you are enjoying it. As for me, I continue to try to find a way to escape from this life into another one .... but, so far, have not come up with a grand scheme. Perhaps, I will simply nail the doors and windows shut and run off in hopes of finding Never Neverland. Who can say what lies around the next bend in the trail .... or, the next bend in the river, in my case.
As for the group, Fairy, I am not certain it still exists. This video was from 2011, and I found no others. I will do a bit of research and see what I can see .... or whatever ....
This will be and is a pretty short response to your comment, Anita. It is a busy day for me, and I want to begin another post as a prelude to my next excursion into world of Ole Edvart Rölvaag.
Take care, stay safe and I do think of you every day .... really ....
Time flies whether you are having fun or not ....
Thank you for your prompt answer. I saw indians black, in drawings, when they meet spanish, not after. They were already blacks. The maya statues have black people features. I understand your english but I can not manage to write. I'll search on the internet, maybe I'll find more details.
Thank you again.
All the best!
I have seen photographs of Mesoamerican paintings showing variations of skin coloring, as well, Robert, but I never have encountered any explanation of why they are that way. I do know individuals come in varying shades of brown and black and yellow and white, so it might be a natural phenomenon. For instance, a person with brown skin who spends a lot of time in the sun will naturally become darker and darker. My second wife had olive-colored skin .... in Montana, some people thought she was Native American; in Italy, some people thought she was Italian.
I also know painted colors sometimes change over time, depending on how much light they are exposed to and the ingredients which were used to make them.
There also are theories of ice age people following the coastline of glaciers from Europe and Africa to North America, or even sometimes ships from those continents being caught in storms or currents and eventually turning up on this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Frankly, I do not know if there is a satisfactory explanation/answer to your question. I am among those who believe pretty much anything and everything is within the realm of possibility, so, who can definitely say what the explanation might be .... not I ....
I enjoy your photographs and your art work .... keep it up, Robert, and thank you, for your return visit.
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