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"Remembering a Life," 2010
"Remembering a Life" by Clifford Davidson, 2010. Davidson's childhood spent in Rice County, Minnesota. Touches upon Eklund Lutheran Church, midsummer celebrations, school pranks, cross-country skiing, farming, bullying, mental illness and dysfunctional family life.
Clifford Davidson is Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval Studies in the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. He is the author of From Creation to Doom: The York Cycle of Mystery Plays (1984), Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580 (1991), Deliver Us from Evil: Symbolic Engagement in Early Drama (2004), Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain (2007), and others. He is the editor of The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, (with Pamela King) The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, and (with Peter Happé) The Worlde and the Chylde, and is presently preparing a TEAMS edition of the York Corpus Christi plays. He has published numerous articles in major American and international scholarly journals, and for many years was an editor of Comparative Drama. As director of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project in the Medieval Institute and his involvement with the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, he was an active medievalist with broad interdisciplinary interests in the field. He also served as dramatic director for a number of medieval liturgical dramas.
In 1985, he was named Distinguished Faculty Scholar by his university. Born in Minnesota, Davidson spent his childhood during the Depression and World War II on a farm, and is an army veteran. After receiving his advanced degrees he pursued a vigorous career of teaching, research, and editing. In addition to his extensive work as an editor, he is the author of numerous scholarly books as well as more than a hundred articles published in the U.S. and abroad over the past forty years.
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Ole Johnson family history, 2009
48 unnumbered pages of research by Mary Ellen Deprey. Black & white and color photocopies of images. Textual family history, plus many geographic illustrations of Loga farm in Flekkefjord: the family homeland. Ole was born in 1854 and married Nikoline (Niklina) Nilsdtr (born in 1856 at Søndre fjeldgate 104 in Flekkefjord)in 1879. They emigrated from Kristiansand in March of 1880 and settled in Wisconsin. The collection includes a list of nine patents of Ole's inventions for various apparatuses he invented, plus two pedigree charts, one beginning with Ole Johannessen born 5 Jun 1854, the other chart beginning with Nikoline. Niklina Nilsdtr 1 born 25 Sep 1856. Each chart goes back six generations. -
Gullick Knudsen Kravig family history, 2011
Kravig Family From Buskerud Fylke, Norway to Lincoln County, Colorado by Roger L. Dudley, 2011. Gullick Knudsen Kravig immigrated in 1866, later founded Karval, Colorado.
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Egertson family history, 2013
"Our Family: The Ancestry and Children of David E. & Edith [Fristedt] Egertson," by David Egertson, 2013. -
Gregorious and Mariana memoir, circa 1970, 2012
Hans Eirik Endal's "Story of Gregorius and Marianna Loftness Trip to the USA in 1872" (Jul i Nordfjord, circa 1970s, translated by Karin Husevag in 2012). Family lore of how a fishing line kept the family from starving.
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Margaret Juleen Munson Lee Erickson memories, 1994-2004
Memories of Margaret Juleen Munson Lee Erickson (1994, with updates thru 2004). Topics covered: telephone party line, quilting, threshing, lefse, harvesting, religion/church, listening to the radio, school, games, berry picking, eggs and candling, taking baths, remedies/sickness, long underwear, reading, ediphone operator, wedding, honeymoon, lutefisk,and Eskimos. Included are several pages of memories of daughter Loretta by others. Obituary: Margaret Juleen Erickson, 91, of Moose Lake died Saturday, June 6, 2009 in Mercy Hospital, Moose Lake. She was born April 25, 1918 in Catawba, Wisconsin to Anton and Josemina (Haugdahl) Munson. Juleen attended high school in Amery, WI and later in St. Paul. Juleen was united in marriage to her first husband, Lorin Lee on October 11, 1941 in St. Paul. They lived in Fargo, St. Paul, Alaska, Richfield and Pine City. Juleen was united in marriage to her second husband, Elmer Erickson on November 27, 1990 in Duluth. Juleen and Elmer lived in Windemere Township."Haugedalen and Pedersen Family History" (ca. 2003), "A Brief Record of the A.T. Munson Family Covering the Years 1904-1923" (ca. 1994). Topics covered: home remedies/accidents, movies, bathing, wedding, pregnancy, scouting, and fruit orchard. Includes letters (1947-1957) from Luther and Lillian Reinertsen, missionaries in South Africa, and "Our Family" by Charles and Clarice Nelson. -
Christian Simon Erickson collection, circa 1960
Photographs taken of a grave site in Mountain Grove, Missouri, circa 1960 with photocopied obituaries.
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Jonas Gatland family history, 2014
"Jonas Gatland--the U.S. immigrant who returned to Norway" (2014).Gatland emigrated from Osterøy, Norway in 1903 and eventually settled in Cloquet, Minnesota. Family escaped the great fire of 1918 and lost everything. Soon thereafter his wife died due to the influenza outbreak. Gatland and his six children returned permanently to Norway in 1920. -
Bømlo ancestry, 2002
Osvald Gilje, Bømloslekt "Hr. Laurits i Finnaas" Ein introdksjon til slektsgransking" -
Ole Gladhaug family histories, 2008
Ole Gladhaug family histories includes the following volumes: Arne Mikkelsen Gladhaug [1822-1882]: A Short Genealogy by Ole Gladhaug (Kolofon Forlag, 2008. 115 pages). He settled in Vermont Township, Wisconsin and Valdresslekten Gladhaug (4 volume set), (Kolofon Forlag, 2008).
Formerly part of P539.