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Jorma Rotko. The Soup

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Simon Friesen, 1575. Grandpa goes to heaven, Simon to sea

Johannes van der Smissen, 1839. A teacher immigrates to Reval

Simon Friesen, 1576. Wet life in Fürstenwerder

Johannes van der Smissen, 1859. Hanna left me, I left Reval

Simon Friesen, 1576-1578. The tar and diplomacy

Johannes van der Smissen, 1868. Palatinate grows the best Gewurztraminer

Simon Friesen, 1595. Which boat is better, ventjager or pinasse?

Johannes van der Smissen, 1869. Münster, always Münster…

Simon Friesen, 1628. Another deck at any price

Johannes van der Smissen, 1873. Russia needs farmers, Mennonites need land

Simon Friesen, 1630-1635. Klabautermann, witchcraft, and storms

Johannes van der Smissen, 1874 “Here I stand. I can do no other!”

Simon Friesen, 1642-1660. The rise and fall of Duke Jakob

Johannes van der Smissen, 1875. Believes, but wrongly! To the stake!

Simon Friesen, 1662-1704. Altona, the skipper’s paradise

Johannes van der Smissen, 1876. Stories, legends, tales, sagas

Simon Friesen, 1709-1715. A schooner she’s got to be

Johannes van der Smissen, 1877. Don’t fight or vow, wash your neighbor’s feet

Simon Friesen, 1762. The voyage of the chatty count

Johannes van der Smissen, 1878. A man in the demon’s fists

Simon Friesen, 1831-1861. A young girl and the old sailor

Johannes van der Smissen, 1879. I don’t see summer anymore

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It was the bang of all bangs! By coincidence, I was cleaning my nets out in the yard at the time. I felt the ground shake and caught a glimpse of roof thatch, and my Grandfather, flying through the air. The sea breeze carried the thatch away, but Grandpa fell back to the remains of his laboratory with a thud.

Grandma Margareta and my brother Dietrich ran from the house, but it was too late. There was nothing to do now but speculate and mourn.

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Although Boersma lived on the east end of the island, his boat sat useless in the western harbor.

“I don’t know if he would be willing to sell, but I know he uses it very rarely,” Huisman said. “When he wants to sail to the mainland, he persuades his son or son-in-law to accompany him. The boat is too big for an old man. I doubt if he can sail it alone”.

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