Candlewood Lake
Our family enjoyed going to Candlewood Lake in western Connecticut on summer weekends. It turns out my father had been…
Category: Family History
Beech Mountain
One favorite walk, among many at Acadia National Park, is Beech Mountain. Several trails access the mountain, so the walk…
New York-Bound, 1902.
After traveling by train across Sweden from Norberg, his hometown, Carl Albin Jacobsson arrived Göteborg Central Station at 7:03 on…
Eskilstuna in Miniature ~ Brooklyn, NY.
When you arrive in New York for the first time, you can be more than a little astonished at the…
“Till Amerika” Newly Translated.
Sunday, the 20th of April 1902, the departure date of my trip, had arrived. With mixed feelings, I anticipated saying…
Anna’s Swans, 1905
My brother remembers a silk pillow prominently display on the living room couch in our grandparents’ home at 21 Hawthorne…
Charlotta’s Wedding Shawl, 1875
Give to either Yale or Historic Museum. Augusta “Guttie” Lindquist (c. 1970). Augusta Ottila Lindquist, my great aunt “Guttie,” knew…
Norberg, 2018
During a 10-day visit to Sweden I visited Norberg, the home parish of my paternal grandfather Carl Albin Jacobsson. The…
Västergötland, 2018
My paternal grandmother, Anna Vitalia Lindquist, and her sister Augusta Ottilia Lindquist–my great aunt “Guttie”–emigrated from southwestern Sweden in 1901…
Ellis Island 107 Years Later
I think my grandfather would be proud. On Tuesday evening I attended a black-tie event in the Great Hall at…
Corners of Our Hearts
I just completed my second read of John Adams by David McCullough. I am struck by Adams’ commitment to public…