Category Archives: In Memorium

LONGINGS

Posted on June 18, 2011 by snowbirdredux

I would have to rate the too early death of my father as the single most influential, definitive happening of my life.  I was eight and it was just after the Great War, as they now call it, and one … Continue reading →

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JOHAN’S PEONIES

Posted on June 14, 2011 by snowbirdredux

In an earlier post last March I wrote of Johan’s Journey, the story of my maternal grandfather who came to this country as a little boy from the island of Skarvik on the far north Salangen Fjord of Norway.  He … Continue reading →

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MIDWEST MEMORIAL

Posted on May 31, 2011 by snowbirdredux

We woke in the night to explosions in the sky and Big Bang Minnesota Thunder, so it was at first a bit iffy as to whether the skies would cooperate for the gathering at the Lower Wild Rice and Red … Continue reading →

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