Home Again
For one Harpswell family, Christmas wasn’t complete without their great grandfather’s Swedish cabin.
Meadow Rue Merrill
For most people, Christmas carries its own particular heritage — family recipes, heirloom ornaments, traditions passed from one generation to the next. People move away and relations fall into and out of favor, but somehow Christmastime manages to tie families together with a nice neat bow. This is particularly true for Gregory and Joy Johnson, whose connection to their Swedish ancestors’ rustic cabin in northern Maine was so strong [for the rest of this story, see the December 2007 issue of Down East]
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Reader Comments:
Enjoyed the article as my Mother's family and Gregory Johnson's grand-father's family were best of friends, growing up in Westmanland & Jempland. I always look forward to see the "Johnson girls" when I go north to visit.
I do wish you would do more stories on "The County" as a majority of us living in the southern part of the State to come from "The County".