Bruce

Tracing My Swedish Family Names

What might seem simple—a person’s name—turns out to be full of complexity. When looking into family history I found there…

Many communities are found along the shores of the Haraseeket estuary in Freeport, Maine. A community is any interacting group…

It’s Mother’s Day and I am thinking of when my mother opened her eyes, I held her, and she was…

It was my parents’ dream to make something special of the house on Woodmont Road, their first. My detail-oriented dad…

No, I’m not talking about the Earth. Rather, the world globe given to my father upon his graduation from high…

Every day I think of my animal friends when dressing.

Begun in 2017, I completed my plan for the pond environs five years later (not bad, considering the length of…

Our family enjoyed going to Candlewood Lake in western Connecticut on summer weekends. It turns out my father had been…

I’ve lost track of visits to Acadia, which is not surprising given that my home is adjacent to the national…

After traveling by train across Sweden from Norberg, his hometown, Carl Albin Jacobsson arrived Göteborg Central Station at 7:03 on…

When you arrive in New York for the first time, you can be more than a little astonished at the…

Sunday, the 20th of April 1902, the departure date of my trip, had arrived. With mixed feelings, I anticipated saying…