That’s a beautiful picture. My Norwegian ancestors left the ancestral farm in a location looking very much like that, just before 1900, to move to Montana, North Dakota, and Alberta; leaving behind the green and the mountains, homesteading in the brutal prairie climate. When I went back to see the valley near the fjord, I thought they must have been crazy to leave this.
Weirdly, it turned out to be a brilliant choice: I think it would have been quite difficult for a small farmer in Northern Europe, surrounded by family, to break out and try a new life. In North America, within a couple of generations the family was full of university professors and bankers and business owners and so on. Just an accident of landing in a place at a time when there was so much empty space to be filled; geographical, economic, and cultural. But they suffered along the way. My father’s grandmother came over from Norway pregnant; she had 12 children and only 4 lived to adulthood. It’s a time that’s unimaginable to someone used to 21st-century life. -T On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Tim Øsleby <[email protected]> wrote: > http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/2012/10/house-with-view-2.html > > My new view > > -- > MaritimTim > > My private photo blog: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ > My photo class blog: http://z-fotokurs.blogspot.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To err is human > to arr is pirate > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
