The Stavig Letters

The immigrant experience comes to life in this three-person readers’ theater program. 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 75 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.