On June 1st, 2016, after trying to arrange a meeting for several weeks I met with Odd Ramstad, who is married to Gudrunn Ramstad, the descendent of the Ramstad farm. They were farming sheep and transitioning to farming chickens. I looked at the farm buildings still standing, including the original farmhouse. I was pointed towards Ramstadtrædet husmann plass, which was at the top of the cleared field behind a fence.

 

(In old Norwegian farming society, “husmann” were people allowed to build a home on a small, and usually less desirable, section of a larger farm’s land. They had a time limited lease that was paid either once a year in cash or with their labor. Husmann was not only a lease arrangement, it was a class of people. Husmann where a large percentage of the between 750,000 and 1 million Norwegians who emigrated during the second half of the 1800s and the early 1900s.)

 

I walked up there later to look around. It was very rocky and there were no longer any buildings. Odd said I was welcome to come back to work and make videos on Ramstadtrædet at any time.