*warning: there is a reasonably likely chance that this post will be edited and deleted. Some of the people in my extended family get freaked out when I mention them on my blog.*
I had lots of fun seeing my family in Nebraska a couple of weeks ago. It’s neat to see where everyone is and [...]
Pioneer Village is an amazing museum in Minden, Nebraska. It was founded by Harold Warp, son of Norwegian immigrants and raised in the area around Minden. He became an early plastics tycoon by developing “Flex-o-glass”, a product similar to Plexiglass. After becoming quite wealthy by selling his product, he returned to Minden and opened this [...]
We visited Moses Hill cemetary, where my grandparents and many other relatives have been laid to rest. Just to clarify- Moses Hill Church and Moses Hill Cemetary are NOT related to Salem Church, which I posted about earlier.
This cemetary is VERY Swedish. The vast majority of the people buried here are named Johnson, Ericson, Anderson, [...]
**edit: sorry for the delay, but here’s some more photos from my trip to Nebraska this summer.**
We also drove through Holdrege, Nebraska, which is the town where my father was born and where he lived through his junior high years.
Holdrege is a farm community, so all of the land nearby is farmland!
The farming co-op plays [...]
My family- and I’m referring to my (very!) extended family – met at Salem Church in Phelps County, Nebraska (near Funk) to honor my great-uncle, David, who passed away suddenly due to a heart attack a few months ago. It was very pleasant- it was nice to get together and reminisce. Isn’t it always?
Salem Church [...]
In Nebraska, my parents and I stayed at the Pioneer Village hotel in Minden, Nebraska. I am writing a whole other post about Pioneer Village- it is such a neat place and I have so much to say about it! The “campus” also includes a hotel, a campground/rv park, and a restaurant. The choices of [...]
I took oodles of photos from the car while we were driving to Nebraska. Many of them turned out blurry (no surprise, since I took these from a moving car) but a lot of them turned out surprisingly good. In fact, I’m using one of them as the wallpaper on my cell phone.
Also, an apology: [...]
*edit* I found this in my drafts folder. I wrote it a couple of days ago… guess I forget to post it! How weird!
I have oodles of photos from our weekend visit to Nebraska to post and write about. I was kind of waiting on the photos from my mother’s camera too, but I haven’t [...]
Written at 2pm, Saturday June 6.
Hello blog. I don’t know if this will go through, because I’ve discovered the cell service is pretty flukey around Funk amd Wilcox. Luckily our hotel is in Minden, and I can get a pretty reliable EDGE signal there. So it WILL get sent eventually.
I hope my cell phone battery [...]
In spite of all I have accomplished today, it hasn’t felt that busy. Mom and I woke up early to swim. After that, we came home, showered, and packed. My dad was on a business trip but left this morning and got home around 2:30pm. Mom and I were basically just waiting for him, and [...]