2000

We spend a month in Norway, meet Rotraud & Einar for the first time, and spend time getting acquainted with them while staying on the Slogvik farm - this being one of the Norwegian farms on which Keith's ancestors lived many years ago.

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Rotraud role-plays Malene Slogvik, Keith's gg grandaunt, on the 1825 Slogvik farm. On July 2nd Rotraud gives an historical interpretation of the place as it was in 1825. Our first sight of Hervik fjord with Rotraud and her daughter, Sonja.
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A cozy Slogvik breakfast. The tour of Rotraud's workplace: the Hervik Jam Factory At home and comfortable with loyal friend "PC."
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At the Quaker cemetery with Staklands, as Rotraud helps Keith understand his family history  Visit to Rita on the famous "Yellow Dot Day," when Rotraud toured us around many ancestral farms Relaxing with crafts & listening to music back in the comfortable Slogvik living room.

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