The Legacy of Ida Lillbroända
The Legacy of Ida Lillbroända

Author: Arlene Sundquist Empie

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931025058

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The West didn¿t close in 1893 contrary to that which American historian Frederick Jackson Turner proclaimed. There were opportunities for adventurous Nordic women who became part of America¿s westward expansion. The Legacy of Ida Lillbroända: Finnish Emigrant to America 1893 provides an insightful analysis of the immigrant experience. The compelling story follows a young Finnish peasant girl¿s trek across North America after her bleak arrival in Quebec in 1893 where she is quarantined because of diphtheria aboard the steamship. In Telluride, Colorado she marries an ore miner and runs their boarding house. Returning to Finland for a visit, she reaffirms her decision: ¿Till Amerika vi gå.¿ Her husband does not have appropriate papers, so she enacts her stealth plan to get him aboard the steamship departing Finland. Determined in her goals of individuality and education for her children, Ida fulfills her ¿American Dream¿ in Washington¿s fertile Skagit Valley. Within this immigrant story, another quest unfolds ¿ the historical and genealogical detective work of the author striving to bridge the gap of generations.

Minding a Sacred Place
Minding a Sacred Place

Author: Arlene Sundquist Empie

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931025034

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Writer Sunnie Empie and photographer Hart W. Empie reveal what it's like to live in the Boulder House, which was designed around an enormous outcrop of weathered granite that sheltered inhabitants from the Stone Age up to about 700 years ago. The text and about 150 color photographs describe the planning and building of the house as well as the Empies' appreciation of the high Sonoran Desert in Arizona, where ancient symbols carved into the rock connect the viewer to the cosmology of the first people in the American southwest.

Beyond Forgetting
Beyond Forgetting

Author: Holly J. Hughes

Publisher: Literature & Medicine

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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This is a literary collection that illuminates the darkness of Alzheimer's disease. It is a unique collection of poetry and short prose about the disease written by 100 contemporary writers - doctors, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, daughters, sons, wives, and husbands - whose lives have been touched by the disease.