Dad and Lynda went out to the "ancestral home" today in White Bear Lake. This beautiful house is where Dad spent part of his childhood, when, during the Depression, his family lived with his grandparents. The house looks out over the big lake, and sits on the corner of the main street. Dad remembers so much of life in those days and in that house. He was in high school and he worked at a local grocery. Grandpa Benjamin had gorgeous formal gardens in the back of the house. There are pictures of them online at Minnesota Historical Society. Dad remembers their beauty, but also the hard work that went into keeping them that way.
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