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Not too long ago I visited the Heritage Hjemkomst in Moorhead, and I highly recommend that anyone spending some time in the Fargo/Moorhead area should check it out. Once you pay the admission fee, there is so much for you to be able to do, including a Viking ship, a Stave Church, the Clay County Historical Society's museum and a separate part of the building that has an exhibit that changes. The Viking ship is the first thing that I saw, and it is really very impressive. An area man built the ship by hand in a potato warehouse not too far east of here on highway 10. After completing the ship, the builder and his family launched this ship in Duluth, then sailed it to the east cost through the great lakes, and eventually sailed it across the ocean to Norway. The other great thing at the center is the Stave church which was built by a group of people from the metro area. The church is as close to the original Norwegian construction method as modern building codes would allow. The design of the church is really quite spectacular, especially when you learn that the real churches in Norway were built without modern fasteners, but instead fit together with properly notched wood. Along with the construction of the church, there is an amazing amount of hand carving done on the inside and outside along the front entrance. It is all really cool to see and everyone should!