Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Farm Animals
Some of my favourite photos of farm animals from around the world. Three pigs just hanging out in Costa Rica. Chickens keeping track of tourists in Myanmar. When we come across a […]
Tag Archives: Farm
The Old Farm at Skaevinge & Jeppe, the Cheeky Horse, Denmark 1949
Note from Editor/Daughter: This story, from my dad’s journal of memories, is about the last job he had in Denmark before emigrating to Canada. In late 1948 I came to […]
In Sweden with ‘that Devil Dane’, 1946
Note from Editor/Daughter: This story dates back to just after World War 2, from my dad’s journal of memories. I met with Poul Kofod in Copenhagen and from there we […]
The Anker Avlund Resistance Group in Denmark 1944-45
Note from Editor/Daughter: These stories are from my dad’s journal of memories. This story dates from the last days of WW2 when my dad was working for a farmer who […]
Historic Lejre, Denmark 1944
Editor/Daughter’s Note: This is an excerpt from my dad’s journals of memories. I landed a job as farm foreman at Viggo Fransen’s farm near Lejre on Zealand. Viggo was the […]
Thor’s Island (or in present day language, Tåsinge), Denmark 1941
Editor/Daughter’s Note: This is an excerpt from my dad’s journals of memories. Mostly he did paintings to help him tell his stories, but in this case he scotch-taped magazine pictures […]
Life on Siø, an Island Farm, Denmark 1936
From my dad’s journal of memories: a story from his life on Siø farm when he was a teenager in Denmark during the dirty thirties. The work in the fields went on but […]
Siø, King* Peter’s Island in Denmark, 1935
Note from Editor/Daughter: After my grandfather’s creamery went broke in the great depression, my father was ‘farmed out’ to his uncle Peter’s farm on Siø. My dad was 14 at […]
Life on Langeland in Denmark, 1921-31
Editor/Daughter’s Note: My dad wrote up several journals of his memories. This story is from Langeland, Denmark where he was born in 1921. An interesting feature of Langeland is that there […]
Life near the German Border during WW2, Denmark 1942
Editor/Daughter’s Note: During the Second World War my dad lived in occupied Denmark, and moved around the country working on various farms (and occasionally getting into trouble with the German […]
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