The Rainbow Walk at the Aarhus ARoS Museum in Denmark
From a distance the only spectacular thing about the Museum of Modern Art in Aarhus is its ‘rainbow walk’. What I hadn’t realized from its exterior appearance is that being […]
Category Archives: Denmark
Scandanavian-Designed Seating
In Copenhagen I found a street filled with furniture stores, not something I would normally bother with, but it’s different in Denmark. Table and chairs at a Danish Mid-Century Modern […]
Back from Tropical Sweden
The bus driver takes one look at us with our suitcases and says, “Sorry, we don’t allow tourists on this bus.” We are astonished and I actually take a step […]
Half-Timbered Brick Buildings in a Recreated Village (Aarhus, Denmark)
The half-timbered brick buildings in the villages of Denmark look like something out of a fairy tale. And when someone wants to get rid of one of these charming old […]
Across the Pond, 1949
Editor/Daughter’s Note: My dad wrote up several journals of his memories. This story is about his decision to emigrate to Canada in 1949 and the wild crossing ‘across the pond’. […]
Tracking Down Places from the Past: The Wharf at Siø
The island’s wharf was a 600-foot-long stone dyke with pilings at the end and a deck over them creating a circular platform wide enough to turn around a horse drawn […]
Author’s Note from my Dad’s Journal of Memories
My Dad’s note about his journal: Because I am not a very good typist or too good at English grammar I have chosen to heavily illustrate this book. As the saying […]
