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Ida Chamness writings on travel and religion, 1927-1938
1927-09-26 Page 59
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-59- etc, almost crawling at times to keep from loosing foothold and fall down from a great height: whilst our cousins could go jumping along with grace and apparent ease from one rock to the other lighting with accuracy on their clumsy wooden shoes: reminding Georgetta of mountain goats. While her way of climbing was amusing to them. One day Jessie and Sarah Tow, Aunt Jergine, Martin, Georgetta, Uncle and the girls walked up this path and on a long way to a great high pile of stones called "Stenvaren," where mamma and her cousins and playmates had in days of their childhood engraven their names in the stones. Here they had their photo taken. Another day Aunty and Georgetta went the same way to the beautiful lake called "Sandvan" where they went in bathing. Up on top of this broad mountain is where the turv is cut in wet places. It is a certain kind of red earth which is cut in slices about two inches thick and eight or nine inches long. Uncle and Georg cut turv, while Theoline and Jens (a handsom neighbor boy) laid it on a sled and Nellie pulled it to a dryer place where T. and J. stood it up to dry
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-59- etc, almost crawling at times to keep from loosing foothold and fall down from a great height: whilst our cousins could go jumping along with grace and apparent ease from one rock to the other lighting with accuracy on their clumsy wooden shoes: reminding Georgetta of mountain goats. While her way of climbing was amusing to them. One day Jessie and Sarah Tow, Aunt Jergine, Martin, Georgetta, Uncle and the girls walked up this path and on a long way to a great high pile of stones called "Stenvaren," where mamma and her cousins and playmates had in days of their childhood engraven their names in the stones. Here they had their photo taken. Another day Aunty and Georgetta went the same way to the beautiful lake called "Sandvan" where they went in bathing. Up on top of this broad mountain is where the turv is cut in wet places. It is a certain kind of red earth which is cut in slices about two inches thick and eight or nine inches long. Uncle and Georg cut turv, while Theoline and Jens (a handsom neighbor boy) laid it on a sled and Nellie pulled it to a dryer place where T. and J. stood it up to dry
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