MEMORIES LOST AND FOUND

Each Year Millions Of People Search For Clues About Where They Came From And Who They Are. That'S Where His Story Begins. Urged On By His Mother'S Advancing Alzheimer'S He Turned To Her Aging Siblings For The Family Stories Only They Knew Before They Too Faded Into The Firmament. Over Hours Of Shared Laughter Tears And Dark Coffee He Learned That His Mother Was The Personification Of The Classic American Myth: A Child Of Swedish Immigrants Born In A Log Cabin Delivered By A Midwife She Walked Two Miles Through The Snow To A One Room School. Her Parents Struggled As Homesteaders In The Decimated Forests Of Minnesota'S Far North And On The Unforgiving Plains Of Northeastern Montana. They Faced The Threats Of Poverty Drought The Spanish Flu Epidemic Of 1918 And The Great Depression With Stoic Courage. Theirs Is An American Story Of Hope Hardship And Determination That Spans The First Half Of The Twentieth Century An Era That Rewove The Fabric Of Our Country. For Him It Was A Personal Journey Of Heartache Inspiration And The Discovery Of What It Means To Be Family.