Large Crowd Turns Out to Celebrate John Stenbroten's 90th Birthday

Kim Tschudy
John Stenbroten (on stage) with his family at the celebration of his 90th birthday held at Barnaby's Monticello House.
It is said that as people age they often get a bit forgetful about things that have happened in their long lives. John Stenbroten, who was feted at a 90th birthday party this past Saturday, admits there is one thing he can't remember. "I have no memory of our trip across the ocean from Norway to Wisconsin." After a pause, he says with that wry, almost impish grin that is often so much a part of the stoic Norwegian immigrants, that it reminds you of Garrison Keillor's stoic Lake Wobegon Norwegians. "Of course, I was only two months old when we got on the ship to America." "But," he said...
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