Until she left Norway at about the age of eighteen, this was my grandmother’s church, to which she and her family had to row a boat or, when possible, walk on ice. Most of the family names represented in the cemetery — e.g., Årdal, Ripe, Kjøsnes, Myklebust, Svidal, Søgnesand, Lunde, and so forth — also appear in my family line. (Wikimedia Commons)
“Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
Posted from Stardalen, Norway
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