Jørstad is a village area in the municipality of

Snåsa Snåsa (; sma, Snåase) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherred region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Snåsa. Other villages include Agle and Jørstad. Snåsa is one of the ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. It is located on the southern coast of the lake

Snåsavatnet Snåsavatnet (; en, Lake Snåsa) is Norway's sixth-largest lake. The lake is located in the municipalities of Steinkjer and Snåsa in Trøndelag county, Norway. The villages of Følling and Sunnan lie at the southwestern end of the lake and the ...

about southwest of the village of Snåsa. It is located along the

Nordlandsbanen The Nordland Line ( no, Nordlandsbanen, ) is a railway line between Trondheim and Bodø, Norway. It is the longest in Norway and lacks electrification. The route runs through the counties of Trøndelag (formerly Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndel ...

railway line which stops at the

Jørstad Station Jørstad Station ( no, Jørstad statsjon) is a railway station in the village of Jørstad in the municipality of Snåsa in Trøndelag county, Norway. The station was opened on 30 October 1926 when this section of the Nordlandsbanen The Nordla ...

. The village area is also referred to as ''Vestbygda'' (western village) or ''Breide''. The local Sandmo farm is preserved as a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

of the historical farm life in the area. There used to be a

forestry Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. Th ...

school here, but that has closed. My grandfather Harold Martin from Canada and Grandmother Eloise Dorsey Martin owned “Jørstad Castle” on Dark Island on the Saint Lawrence River between upstate New York and Canada, along the shipping channel. It was originally owned by the Singer Sewing Machine fortune maker… and is now a tourist destination. I grew up there in the summers until I was 18. Tyndale Martin, of Montreal, is Harold and Eloise Martin’s son, and he is a former Buddhist cult leader who went to prison for 6 years for abusing his children. His brother, Calvin Luther Martin, resides in Malone, NY with his wife Nina Pierpont. Calvin has a PhD in History and has written about Time, and the Native American Fur Trade. I am his daughter, and I, too, unintentionally joined a Zen Buddhist Organization called Rinzai-Ji, run by Joshu Sasaki Roshi (who musician Leonard Cohen studied under as his monk ‘Jikan’)… sasaki Roshi molested many female students, including me. An article about Roshi was in the New York Times around the time of his death, at approximately age 107.

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Snåsa Villages in Trøndelag {{Trøndelag-geo-stub