The dream that came true - Western Norwegian Emigration Center 1997-2002

In this book, Kjartan Rødland tells the story behind the Western Norwegian Emigration Center. Here you can read about how a local community voluntarily moved buildings from the Midwest in the USA to Sletta on Radøy to recreate a small prairie village.

"There are good books, there are many quite ordinary books, but there are also books that are absolutely necessary. This book is it. It is the memory of the society that the Norwegian pioneers on the prairie created for themselves and their families, with a church , school, prairie clinic, town hall and prison. But it's also about a small village in a small municipality, which went to America at its own expense and collected the Norwegian history on the prairie, at the last minute before the memories were gone." Kjartan Rødland

This book tells the story about the Western Norway Emigration Centre. Text in Norwegian.