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Why did a Jewish radio man get injected with Norwegian blood?
More than 1,300 people attended the celebration, where organizers staged a symbolic transfusion to mark Marget’s 35 years in broadcasting.
- On Feb. 7, 1968, more than 1,300 people gathered at Moorhead State College for a Manny Marget-Get Together celebrating his more than 35 years of broadcasting in Fargo-Moorhead. Moorhead physician Dr. James Duncan presented Marget with a symbolic blood transfusion from Concordia College President Dr. Joseph Knutson.
- Born in Boston in 1896 to Russian Jewish immigrants, Marget arrived in Fargo-Moorhead in the 1920s and became a recognizable radio voice on WDAY and KVOX. He learned to sing in Norwegian and delighted crowds with 'Kan du Glemme Gamle Norge' whenever he performed.
- The Jewish-Norwegian community bonds in Fargo-Moorhead blossomed in the early 1900s from admiration for poet Henrik Wergeland, who fought to overturn Norway's ban on Jewish immigration. In 1935, Jewish women placed a wreath at his Island Park monument, praising him as a defender of 'the poor and oppressed.'
- Marget became a community fixture by the 1970s, broadcasting thousands of sporting events and hosting 'Breakfast with the Margets' with wife Fanny from their Fargo apartment at 820 Broadway from 1950 until her death in 1960. Broadcaster Al Aamodt credited childhood listening to the show as inspiration for his own career.
- Every Syttende Mai on May 17, Norwegian folk song 'Kan du Glemme Gamle Norge' echoes from downtown Fargo's Sons of Norway building, keeping alive memories of how Marget and earlier generations crossed cultural lines in genuine, warm ways. The Red River Valley's Norwegian flags and the Wergeland statue remain enduring symbols of these connections.
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Why did a Jewish radio man get injected with Norwegian blood?
FARGO — Every year around Syttende Mai on May 17, you might hear the first haunting notes of a folk tune drifting out of the old Sons of Norway building in downtown Fargo, its lyrics stirring memories of home for generations of Norwegian immigrants: “Kan du Glemme Gamle Norge” In English:“Can you forget old Norway?” The beloved Norwegian-American folk song was so beautiful and nostalgic that it could bring tears to the eyes, evoking images of fj…
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