A headstone, a photo, a diary, a family heirloom, a letter... the type of things that remain to remind us this person once lived.
Another image for the composite challenge with theme of "darkness." The Swedish script is from a handwritten note on a piece of paper found in an old Swedish language New Testament that Frank evidently picked up in Minneapolis. There are a number of items -- a few newspaper clippings from Minneapolis papers, a child's drawing, a handmade valentine, a postcard with Christmas greetings (in Swedish) etc that are inserted among the pages. One item being this note that explains that the book was given to Olof Magnus Verme by the man who raised him, when he went to visit him after he was grown. He had lived with and worked for the man making charcoal, between the ages of 10-13 years. I know this because of the rough translation on another slip of paper accompanying the note. It starts "Given to Grandpa Verme by..."
We can't read Swedish and the book has nothing to do with our families. So I plan, when I get the time, to try to seek out someone connected with that family -- a descendant of Grandpa Verme? -- to see if they'd like to have it.
I've layered the script with a shot of the cemetery, again using one of the odd filters in the Hyperspektiv app.
@ingajohansson Inga, how kind of you. Thank you! I've posted a scan of the document in my Alternates album: https://365project.org/mcsiegle/alternates/2018-10-22
Also you'll see the rough English translation that was stuck into the book with the original note in Swedish. If you find more (or different) in the original note, I'd love to have that information.
October 22nd, 2018
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Also you'll see the rough English translation that was stuck into the book with the original note in Swedish. If you find more (or different) in the original note, I'd love to have that information.