tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48479478273912619462024-03-13T09:10:26.645-07:00Author Paul ArnesonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847947827391261946.post-90617195489946740462023-03-04T12:45:00.001-08:002023-03-04T12:45:47.310-08:00Leisure World Book Talk <div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNFdTYDl5scgKKtPTItJRGGFXF_4jstCgiwhkgEQq9NBV62pBmyWiCtKiawtDsy7nmIljsN2vvRJg1fjRY3Kn602P3z4x90l9Eb_2WxWTlYoM_8cI9tQ8XTbORrpp3b0oQF-zh24V5BeilCeOneFMVqJ9FrI9Tw5tf5GJzOQ60grUHX7O20_TeSVr/s2894/DF6F7734-DA4E-48C0-BF43-E250E519E361.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2894" data-original-width="2221" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdNFdTYDl5scgKKtPTItJRGGFXF_4jstCgiwhkgEQq9NBV62pBmyWiCtKiawtDsy7nmIljsN2vvRJg1fjRY3Kn602P3z4x90l9Eb_2WxWTlYoM_8cI9tQ8XTbORrpp3b0oQF-zh24V5BeilCeOneFMVqJ9FrI9Tw5tf5GJzOQ60grUHX7O20_TeSVr/w492-h640/DF6F7734-DA4E-48C0-BF43-E250E519E361.jpeg" width="492" /></a></div><br /> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847947827391261946.post-82319289648802371822020-07-28T06:40:00.002-07:002020-07-28T06:40:24.961-07:00Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE Reviews "I Couldn't Milk Another Goat"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847947827391261946.post-38642814871589968622020-06-19T11:46:00.002-07:002020-06-19T11:46:10.002-07:00Paul Talks About His New Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847947827391261946.post-86314555258185351212020-06-12T11:55:00.000-07:002020-06-12T08:02:17.025-07:00Preface to "I Couldn't Milk Another Goat"<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">My Grandmother Carrie was almost 91 in 1969 when
she put her green-ink-filled fountain pen on paper to start her memoir. Her working space was a gnarly old desk in the
study on the second floor of their house on McKinley Street in Northeast Minneapolis. She made it to almost 10 pages but then
couldn’t finish it. She’d been in the
States since 1903 but rarely wrote anything in English - not even the grocery
lists she gave to her husband, Rasmus.
She didn’t want us to have to translate from Norwegian, so she felt
miserable when she stopped writing. I
was the one who had encouraged her to take on the project, so I was the one she
telephoned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">----- “Paul, I vont you to help me vit my story. You
kun ask me kvestions and you can write down my answers. Ven are you koming
home?”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"> In 1969 my wife and I were at Little Rock Air
Force Base, Arkansas for my first assignment in what turned out to be a near 30-year
Air Force career. “<i>Grandma, we’ll be there
with you in Minneapolis for Christmas so don’t worry about a thing,” </i>I
said. At that moment we had a contract. Over the next five years when we saw each
other I’d keep plugging away taking notes and making audio recordings for the
manuscript. -----</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-contextual-alternates: yes; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">She had an absolutely amazing memory. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This collaboration lasted until just a month
before she passed in 1974, just shy of 96 years of age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on a Norwegian fjord. Without hesitation she said, “<i>Da truth is I just
couldn’t milk another goat</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
followed that up by saying she knew that answer was too simple and that there
was much more to her story, but her quick initial response told me we were going
to have fun with this project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granny
had a sense of humor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Her firm wish was that I write the book as if
she were dictating it. She gave me
license to “add some spice” – akin to the way she thought about adding flavor
to her sometimes “mild tasting” Norwegian cooking. <i>“I’ll let you add da
pepper” </i>she said. This book is,
therefore, a historical novel. The main entrée
is hers with complementary side dishes I provide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Since our collaboration on Carrie Thorson’s life
story took place almost 50 years ago, <b>you might rightly ask</b>… why a book
now? Why her? Of what possible interest is this lady to
me? Well, see if any of the questions
below are ones you might ask. If so, Carrie
Thorson has some answers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Norwegian History<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Why did so many Norwegians immigrate to America
in the late 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries? What was the process many went through to
make the trip? What did immigrants give
up when they left the “old country?” What
was life like when farming machinery was not yet available? What were the options when farms could no
longer sustain a family? What were rural
Norwegian schools like in the 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup>
centuries? How did the Nazis occupation
change Norwegian life during World War II?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Minnesota (especially Northeast Minneapolis) History<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">What kind of a city was Minneapolis like before
cars, telephones, radios, and residential electricity? Why was 1918 one of the worst years in
Minnesota history? In what ways did the
Great Depression affect life in Northeast Minneapolis? What did families do for entertainment? Who were the early politicians of renown in
the city and state? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Until recently I don’t
think I truly appreciated the gift Carrie Thorson had given me during our
talks. Her memory for events </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">was amazing.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">It
took me several years to realize just how revealing she had been about subjects
many people were curious about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Here are a
few things she had hand-scribed in Norwegian before electing to do the oral
history sessions with me:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hated tending the goats when I was a girl.
They wiggled and fidgeted and jumped and bellowed a weird noise. It was like a <b>wrestling match for me to get a
full pail of milk. And I had to do it for each of them. If we’d had just a few goats it would have
been alright, but in 1896 Dad bought eight more than the ten we already had and
I was typically all alone to hold them down, get my stool in place, position the
pail, and then pray they didn’t jolt. It
wasn’t the way a young girl dreams of spending her summers. But don’t get me
wrong. I think very fondly of my early
days in Norway, but it would have been better without the damn goats.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Let
me also explain my “given” name change.
In Norway it was “Kari” but when I got to America, I immediately changed
it to “Carrie.” It wasn’t really my idea
but that of the attendant at Ellis Island who said she knew how it “should be”
spelled. I thought that was rude but
didn’t want to get in an argument with someone on my first day on American
soil. I could see me being deported for
insubordination. In my head, I’m still
Kari. </b></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You’ll
see many newspaper clippings that I’ve saved over the years. I have a good memory, thank God, but I liked
saving things I cut out of the newspaper.
There were often more interesting things in the news than were happening
around our house. I figured the
clippings would help me remember them when I got old. I was right.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Carrie wanted her book to include a map of
Northeast Minneapolis showing how many residences her family lived in from 1905
to the time she had to sell the house on McKinley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">Street in 1971.
While they did live in all nine listed below, four </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">were vacated and kept as rental properties after
only a few months stay (#s 1, 2, 4, and 6).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">To see a 40-second video clip of Carrie Kirkeeide Thorson in 1971 go to: </span></b><a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/CarrieKirkeeide"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.tinyurl.com/CarrieKirkeeide</span></b></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Another <u>highly recommended</u> video you
might view before continuing. In 2013
two young Norwegian fellows (Lars Gathe and Hartvig Johannsen) toured the U.S.
to document the lives of descendants of Norwegian immigrants. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s an amazing 51 minutes well worth your time:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Preface
by Paul Arneson<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Part
One<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First You Should Know<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter 1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where I Come From (Nordfjord)<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who We Are (The Kirkeeides)<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>17<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Part
Two<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One Norwegian Immigrant’s Story<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter 3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1880s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Where Am I?<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>38<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>What Do I Want to Do?<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>46<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>Now Where Am I?<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>52<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>Now a Family of Six With a Car<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>85<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span>Wonderful Years…at Least at First<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>100<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter 8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1930s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Work, Joy, Pain, and Missing Norway<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</span>Ten Years of Uff Da<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>158<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter 10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learning to Let Go<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>188<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Part
Three<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul’s Epilogue<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>191<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Part Four Carrie's Scrapbook 195</span></b></div>
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