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Bruce Jacobson

Me . . . and those who came before.

Anna’s Swans, 1905

My brother remembers a silk pillow prominently displayed on the living room couch in our grandparents’ home at 21 Hawthorne…
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Posted on: 15 May 2019 Last updated on: 2 February 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce
colorful paisley shawl

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 that…
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Posted on: 15 May 2019 Last updated on: 2 February 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce

National Parks Visited

Wherever I go, I like to visit significant natural areas and historic sites. I have memories from visits to more…
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Posted on: 21 January 2019 Last updated on: 1 May 2022 Written by: Bruce
Former Norberg train station.

Norberg, 2018

During a 10-day visit to Sweden I visited Norberg, the home parish of my paternal grandfather Carl Albin Jacobsson. The…
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Posted on: 7 January 2019 Last updated on: 26 February 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce

Västergötland, 2018

My paternal grandmother, Anna Vitalia Lindquist, and her sister Augusta Ottilia Lindquist–my great aunt “Guttie”–emigrated from southwestern Sweden in 1901…
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Posted on: 6 January 2019 Last updated on: 24 July 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce
Waves ripple down the shore from two bare feet.

Gone, But Not Forgotten

. I come here occasionally to visit old “friends.”
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Posted on: 15 November 2018 Last updated on: 26 August 2019 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce
My visit to Stigmanspasset rift valley.

Stigmanspasset, Tivedens Nationalpark

Tivedens nationalpark is located in southern Sweden’s wildest forests. The area is strewn with glacial erratic boulders and cut by…
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Posted on: 21 September 2018 Last updated on: 17 August 2019 Written by: Bruce
Shore of Eagle Lake, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Maine.

Allagash Wilderness Waterway

It has been my pleasure to collaborate with Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation (AWWF) and Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands…
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Posted on: 19 February 2018 Last updated on: 7 January 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce

Country Dance

I began square dancing when I was age 11, at the invite of David Maciorowski, and danced regularly through high…
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Posted on: 9 October 2017 Last updated on: 14 February 2023 Comments: 1 Written by: Bruce
A rocky shoreline on Calf Island, with green herbaceous plants hugging the upland on the near left side of the frame. Some of the plants have small yellow flowers. The rocks closest to the water are dark with seaweed and moisture from the outgoing tide. A flock of white shorebirds dot the far shore. Beyond the birds waves crash in big whitecaps on near shore rocks. Behind the rocks several islands rise above the horizon line.

Boston Harbor Islands

I’m proud of my work with many partners and friends at Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park. One of…
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Posted on: 22 July 2017 Last updated on: 6 September 2022 Written by: Bruce
Photo by Peter Lewis.

Friends in Maine

Acadia. Baxter. Allagash. These are places of wildness and beauty where visitors seek renewal. They are the premier wildland recreation…
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Posted on: 7 June 2017 Last updated on: 17 November 2019 Written by: Bruce
(NPS photo)

Walk in the Footsteps at l’île Sainte-Croix

Located in the ancestral homelands of the Wabanaki, Saint Croix Island International Historic Site commemorates the 1604 site of the…
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Posted on: 24 January 2017 Last updated on: 3 April 2022 Written by: Bruce
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