http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2008/08/26/story-makes-society-possible/ Stories are the voice of humanity Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:12:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/2008/08/26/story-makes-society-possible/#comment-69 Burton Hanson Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:11:56 +0000 http://storycatcher.net/wordpress/?p=7#comment-69 Dear Ms. Baldwin. Who says Google Books is bad? I did a Google search for Rasmus Hanson from Hafslo to see if there was anything new online about that part of my family & Google linked me to a page from your book, "Storycatcher," which I just ordered from Amazon. Moments earlier I was linked to Odd Lovoll's U. of Minn. book, "Norwegians on the Prairie," which I also ordered, about the Norwegians in Benson, and a discussion of Rasmus & his brother Erik, whose kids Hans & Britha, first cousins, are my great grandparents. I met your grandmother, Emma, a few times & my late dad, Russell, saw her, I believe, when he was visiting in the Hemet area in the mid-1990s. I'm as hopeful as you about Barack Obama & I'm a Republican (I've been called a "RINO," Republican in name only). Writing must run in the family. My daughter, Jennifer, who is a lawyer here in MPLS, wrote a book for Houghton-Mifflin, "The Real Freshman Handbook," that made it to a second edition. Son Erik, who is a science writer, has one book under his belt, "Canyons" for young adults, has just completed one on hummingbirds, & just signed on to write one on foot care for people with diabetes. Send me your e-mail sometime & I'll send you an incomplete digitized file of my newspaper history of the Hansons/Myhres half of my family background (Myhre being Dad's mom's family name). Best wishes. Burton Randall Hanson. BTW, your grandmother's mother, Britha, also lived to 100. She was born in 1855 (not 1853 as some records indicate) and died in 1955. I was 12 when she died and I remember her well. Dear Ms. Baldwin. Who says Google Books is bad? I did a Google search for Rasmus Hanson from Hafslo to see if there was anything new online about that part of my family & Google linked me to a page from your book, “Storycatcher,” which I just ordered from Amazon. Moments earlier I was linked to Odd Lovoll’s U. of Minn. book, “Norwegians on the Prairie,” which I also ordered, about the Norwegians in Benson, and a discussion of Rasmus & his brother Erik, whose kids Hans & Britha, first cousins, are my great grandparents. I met your grandmother, Emma, a few times & my late dad, Russell, saw her, I believe, when he was visiting in the Hemet area in the mid-1990s. I’m as hopeful as you about Barack Obama & I’m a Republican (I’ve been called a “RINO,” Republican in name only). Writing must run in the family. My daughter, Jennifer, who is a lawyer here in MPLS, wrote a book for Houghton-Mifflin, “The Real Freshman Handbook,” that made it to a second edition. Son Erik, who is a science writer, has one book under his belt, “Canyons” for young adults, has just completed one on hummingbirds, & just signed on to write one on foot care for people with diabetes. Send me your e-mail sometime & I’ll send you an incomplete digitized file of my newspaper history of the Hansons/Myhres half of my family background (Myhre being Dad’s mom’s family name). Best wishes. Burton Randall Hanson. BTW, your grandmother’s mother, Britha, also lived to 100. She was born in 1855 (not 1853 as some records indicate) and died in 1955. I was 12 when she died and I remember her well.

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