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Ole's tale. (Quote of the Month).
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May 1, 2003|
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Once ... mother asked me what I wanted to become. Without hesitation I answered: either a poet or a professor. You can just imagine how she laughed; for how could a poor fisherman's boy ever become anything like that?"
The poor fisherman's boy, Ole Edvart Pedersen, was born on April 22, 1876, in a sod-roofed cottage in Rolvaag, Norway. Rolvaag is on Donna Island, which is not far from the Arctic Circle.
There were six generations of fishermen in Ole's family. It was expected that he, too, would earn his living from the sea. When Ole was a teenager, he went ...
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