Fifteen years ago, Kathleen had never been to North Dakota, America's least visited state. So when an invitation came to the 1993 Brown Family Reunion (Mom's side) in the Black Hills of South Dakota, we made a big tour out of it, going through both the Dakotas. That was back when you could get gasoline for $1 a gallon.Here's a short clip from that trip. You'll see two late Aunts on the Rolfsrud side, Hanna Weltzin and Agnes Veeder, showing Kathleen the family graveyard at the Clear Creek church. (They liked Kathleen right away. She carried a purse from a garage sale.)
Then there's a clip from an old movie Nancy Clary showed us when we eventually got to Rapid City. She projected a 1958 home movie on a screen and Stan did what he could to capture it on his video camera. It shows all the vacationing family members (a bored Becky) as well as Paul and Jessie Brown, our grandparents. It has now been transferred to a digital file and last night Stan edited it down to two minutes.
Hope you enjoy it.
