Pork Neckbones, Sauerkraut & Rutabagas: Memories of my Green Lake Girlhood, a new book of neighborhood history by Dorothea Nordstrand, will be made available at a book launch on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, 2-3 p.m., at the History House of Greater Seattle (790 N 34 St).
Nordstrand’s four children share the following on an event flier:
This book of memoirs is the culmination of 25 years of story writing, begun when Dorothea was 70, and put together in humorous, heartwarming details from her vivid memory.
Despite the many hardships that her family endured during her childhood, the love and respect, sense of adventure and heartfelt enjoyment of life shine through. Her stories of homesteading in Eastern Washington and growing up on Seattle’s Green Lake are sweet and tender, revealing a spirit that was uncommonly adventurous for a woman of her era.
As her children, listening to her poignant stories and later reading them, our love and admiration has grown for our mom, for our grandparents, and for family and friends whom we did not know well. For those of you holding these pages for the first time, Dorothea’s delightfully winding threads of truth and love will immediately enfold you within the warm embrace of her family.
Welcome, Dave, John, Hildy and Paul
Dorothea Nordstrand passed away in May 2011 at the age of 95. According to her obituary, her family moved to Green Lake in 1919 and she graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1934. Following high school, she worked at Green Lake State Bank.
Some of Nordstrand’s remembrances about her childhood in Green Lake have been published as essays on historylink.org. You can find links to those essays here.
Pork Neckbones, Sauerkraut & Rutabagas will be available for $14.95 at the History House. It will also soon be available for online purchase at HistoryHouse.org.
For more information about Nordstrand, Pork Neckbones, Sauerkraut & Rutabagas, or the book launch, please contact History House at (206) 675 -8875 or john [at] historyhouse.org.
Unfortunately, most of the links are broken, but one that works is http://www.washington.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=5267
This will get you started, and maybe Amy Duncan can fix the broken links.
This would be a series of stories worth reading, I hope we get to.
Thanks for the comment, Rick. What happens when you click the links? They are all working for me in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Sorry they are not working for you!
Here’s a direct link to the compilation of Nordstrand’s essays: http://www.cougarmountainproductions.com/DixiePress/Framesets/HistoryLink_frameset.htm
The problem is with how some of the links have been constructed. Those like this:
http://www.historylink.org/_output.CFM?file_ID=4228
need to have a character removed to look like this:
http://www.historylink.org/output.CFM?file_ID=4228
Thank you, seattler0cks! I thought that Rick was referring to the links on mygreenlake.com and I couldn’t figure out what might be wrong.
Rick, this page – http://www.cougarmountainproductions.com/DixiePress/Framesets/HistoryLink_frameset.htm — is not actually a part of mygreenlake.com. It is a page on a website run by the Nordstrand family.
It sounds like seattler0cks has found a work around, but if that trick doesn’t work for you, you can search HistoryLink for all mentions of the name “Nordstrand.” Here’s a direct link to that search: http://www.washington.historylink.org/index.cfm?keyword=Nordstrand&DisplayPage=results.cfm&Submit=Go
-Amy