March 2010 • Vol. 6, No. 09 A Shoreline Community, Pine Knoll Shores, N.C. Town Hall 247-4353
It All Started In
Arendal, Norway
By Richard C. Seale
Let it Snow
On rare occasions Mother Nature provides Pine Knoll Shores with a scenic wonder when we receive a
blanket of snow bringing amazing beauty to our community. Last month was an example. Those of us at The
Shoreline were the benefactors of some of that beauty captured in photos. Since the next opportunity to share
this phenomenon will not come soon we have included more scenic photos (on page 9) than usual.
In a vintage 1920's Norwegian photo Ingeborg Nilsen
is pictured with children, left to right, Nellie, Astrid
and Grace
Bob Ruggiero of The Shoreline staff has been after me
for some time now to try to put together an article about
the lives of my mother Nellie Nilsen Seale and my aunt,
Astrid Nilsen Norman. My mother celebrated her 94*
birthday on November 8, 2009. I am not allowed to
tell Astrid's age, but I'll say she is younger—by a year.
Together these two have a combined history not far
off two hundred years. How to cover that amount of
time and number of experiences in one article is nigh
unto impossible, but here goes a try.
Both were born in Arendal, Norway, a shipping
and timber center in southeast Norway, just north
of Kristianstad. In summertime, hardy Norwegians
actually swim there in the waters of Oslo Fjord. Both
of their parents had legally immigrated to America
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