Norwegian historian Lars Nilsen addresses Society of Old Brooklynites

Lars Nilsen, co-chairman of the Norwegian Immigration Association (NIA) and a former consulting engineer with NASA’s Apollo program, was the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Society of Old Brooklynites at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Thursday, Nov. 5. Members of the group also watched a video entitled “200 Years of Norwegian Emigration,” which highlighted the voyage of the replica Sloop Restauration from Norway to Pier 16 in the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan. The video also shows HRH Crown Prince Haakon (now the King of Norway) greeting the sloop. *** Did you know Green-Wood Cemetery has a field of large boulders that were collected and some dug up from throughout its 478 acres? ( Reportedly, about the size of 360 football fields.) According to Wikipedia, these giant rocks resulted from the Wisconsin glacial ice sheet more than 20,000 years ago. All of the land of Green-Wood and the surrounding landscape sits on the top of a glacial moraine.

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