Dear Wanda,
Indeed, the picture I will attach, is a dear picture from 1935: when we were living in Helveg's Hytte by Little Butternut and Eiler and Otto and I enjoyed our very best summer: able to fish and swim whenever we chose!
There came a day when we went swimming at the usual Little Butternut beach and heard a big fish threshing in the weeds a bit from the swimming area. Eiler ran and got a pitch fork and we speared the fish and carried it proudly about (15 pounds) before we cleaned and ate it.
The picture shows us holding it proudly at Solveigs place, with Johanne J. and Valdemar J. and Kris Henriksen there.
Lots of fun that summer!
Sadly, today March 8; is just a year since Eiler suddenly died (cardiac arrest at age 89). A rude shock, indeed.
Fondly,
Reimert
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| Johanne Johansen is on the far left. Valdemar Johansen is the tall young man in the back. Kris Henriksen is the sad looking young man in the overalls. The rest of the kids are Ravenholts. Eiler on the far right hoisting the fish, Reimert on the left of the fish. Curly headed twin girls are Astrid and Agnes. The identity of the rest of the kids I don't know, the rest of the family are Halvor, Johanne, Otto, or Gerda Ravenholt, Albert being the oldest was likely not there. |
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