An Eager Child: Growing up in Norway

Even her Mama asks, "Where does Ovidie get these ideas?" We can ask that, too, of this fine-spirited, industrious youngster growing up in an obscure mountain area of Norway in the late 1800s, on a centuries-old farm, with a seemingly unchanging centuries old lifestyle.

For Ovidie’s hard-working parents, who have already raised three now-grown children, life is sufficient and good. So, what’s there to change?

They are untiring as they provide for the family in a faith-based, self-contain...