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Ida Chamness writings on travel and religion, 1927-1938
1927-09-26 Page 68
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-68- visit from the neighbor boys and girls who came in to see us. One beautiful moonlight evening cousin, Jennie and Georgetta took a walk up high onto the top of a mountain called "Kjoefjeld", So Ida Mary came and stayed with me; and we had a very sweet time as we sat in the moonlight conversing together; she holding my hand. (She has since often mentioned in her letters to me, this opportunity as being one of the most pleasant memories of her life; and she has written that the summer we spent in Norway, was to her the happiest summer of her life.) Jennie called out the mountain call for Georgetta, and she said; to stand up high on the mountain tops always gave her a solemn and reverential feeling: Georgetta felt the same way. They could see a distance of many miles over the mountains, valleys, river in its winding course; and the farm houses and buildings. It was a beautiful sight; which I longed to see. When Ida Mary and I saw Jennie and Georgetta returning we hid. She behind the stove; and, I on our trunk
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-68- visit from the neighbor boys and girls who came in to see us. One beautiful moonlight evening cousin, Jennie and Georgetta took a walk up high onto the top of a mountain called "Kjoefjeld", So Ida Mary came and stayed with me; and we had a very sweet time as we sat in the moonlight conversing together; she holding my hand. (She has since often mentioned in her letters to me, this opportunity as being one of the most pleasant memories of her life; and she has written that the summer we spent in Norway, was to her the happiest summer of her life.) Jennie called out the mountain call for Georgetta, and she said; to stand up high on the mountain tops always gave her a solemn and reverential feeling: Georgetta felt the same way. They could see a distance of many miles over the mountains, valleys, river in its winding course; and the farm houses and buildings. It was a beautiful sight; which I longed to see. When Ida Mary and I saw Jennie and Georgetta returning we hid. She behind the stove; and, I on our trunk
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