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Norwegian artist Arvid “Chris” Kristo ersen’s work.
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The Conrad Mansion Muse- um’s holiday season kicks o the day after Thanksgiving when weekend tours begin and the outside Christmas lights are turned on. The Nativity scene, displayed in the gazebo, is part of the lighted wonderland.
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became an Army engineer. He moved to Havre for 10 years, drawn there to work on the courthouse. After a six-year marriage ended, Kristo ersen moved back to the Flathead. He and Roslyn, his current wife, met in 1983, and were married in 1984. Roslyn, 86, still teaches dance lessons at FVCC.
When asked why he decided to make an appearance at the show, Kristo ersen shrugged and smiled in his basement art studio, which he calls his “hideaway.”
“I’m living here, so I want to show people what I’m doing,” he said.
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blankets wrapped around their legs. They were fed rotten food, from vegetables to sh heads, and Kristo ersen remembers passing along slices of bread to them whenever he could without attracting Nazi ire on himself.
Before that, he was working in a bakery when the Germans invaded. The Nazis took over the bakery to make bread for the German soldiers. Kristo ersen was allowed to keep working there, and he was in charge of bringing wooden planks of freshly baked bread to the storeroom. When his requests for extra food were rejected, he opened the storeroom window and threw bread loaves out, hid- ing them in the weeds until he could pick them up.
Kristo ersen moved to the Flathead Valley in 1952 to work on his aunt’s — a member of the Tutvedt family — farm, where soon after he was drafted and
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