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Midnight Road to Beringia
Part Vi: Oregon Testament | Northern Seas | August
"When his age showed in his leadership, he was cast off by the herd, as is customary among the muskox. He will live and die as a hermit – the price of power. The realization of my encounter shames me: All male muskox are extremely aggressive, and will charge with a force that belies their sad, grizzled faces..."
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Pomerania
Part I: Pomeranian Feast | Northern Seas | June
"Uncle says that the spotty recollection of our family history is due to the Thirty Years War, which, he says, was as devastating as World War II for Pomerania. The Catholics and Lutherans and Calvinists and Austrians and Spanish and French - they were all frothing at the mouth, and regardless, the German states had fallen into this chaos, and therefore also into civil war. Families and records were destroyed. Our family history will forever remain a book with most of the pages torn..."
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Gdansk
Part II: Pomeranian Feast | Northern Seas | JuLY
"Grandfather’s decision for the family to flee to Einbeck was a lucky one – Einbeck was west enough not to make the cut of East Germany. Although Grandfather’s bakeries never came to be, he stuck to grains. Grandfather retired the manager of a flourmill. He never returned to Pomerania until forty years later..."
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