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Subject: Re: 1935 map... Possible November visit to Twin
Cities
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 11:45:21 -0500
From: Stuart Armstrong <sarmstrong@Radix.Net>
To: hheimdah@marineonstcroix.com
Dear Hugh,
Just to let you know, my father and I will be out your way on
Saturday,
November 20. We will be driving from St. Paul. If it is
convenient we
would enjoy meeting you. I'm not sure what my father is most
interested
in, but we will definitely spend the day around Marine and
Otisville.
Where is a good place to meet?
Looking forward to our meeting and seeing where my father spent
his
summers. I will send this note to Jim Johnson as well.
Best regards,
Stuart Armstrong
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Subject:
1935 map... Possible November visit to Twin Cities
Date:
Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:19:56 -0400
From:
Stuart Armstrong <sarmstrong@Radix.Net>
To:
Hugh Heimdahl <hheimdah@marineonstcroix.com>
Dear Hugh,
I had written to you this past spring and sent a digitized map of
your
town. Here is an update. First of all, I was mistaken about where
my
father and his siblings stayed during the 1930's. It was
Otisville, not
Marine on St. Croix. But I imagine that they spent a good deal of
time
in both places or else the maps would not have been so detailed.
I
recently saw the Otisville map for the first time and the map of
Marine
on St. Croix is actually the nicer of the two.
My Aunt Jane (Armstrong), who had done a lot of the artwork on
both
maps, died this past July 4. She was almost 89 years old. In her
will
she requested that she be buried with her parents at Oakland
Cemetary,
in St. Paul. And so there is a trip to Minnesota in my future, to
make
the proper arrangements. My father will be coming as well. We
would
like to visit both Otisville and Marine on St. Croix while we
were in
the area. If it is not an imposition I would enjoy meeting you
while in
town. We are sorting out dates now. Would you be around during
November? We would like to take care of business on a Friday,
stay at a
hotel and travel around to places that my father knew as a boy
during
the weekend.
Attached is a low res* version of the Otisville map, as well as a
picture of my Aunt Jane about the time that she was working on
both
maps. I still have the watercolor frame that she is using in the
picture.
Regards from Maryland.
Stuart Armstrong
Subject:
Re: 1935 map... Possible November visit to Twin Cities
Date:
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:48:43 +0000
From:
Hugh Heimdahl <hheimdah@marineonstcroix.com>
Organization:
marineonstcroix.com & Averill Heimdahl
To:
Stuart Armstrong <sarmstrong@Radix.Net>
References:
1
Stuart, Hallo.
This is great! My wife and I loved the map and the picture of
your Aunt
Jane. We will share them with other people, like Jim and Laura
Johnson,
who sent you an email about the Marine map.
I'd like to somehow put these images and the other map on my
website at
marineonstcroix.com, but haven't figured how yet.
And we're very interested in meeting you and your father when you
come.
In fact, we've started thinking of some other people who would
like to
meet him too - such as people in the historical society here.
Maybe
we can get a group together and do a walking tour or just sit and
hear your father's memories.
Unfortunately Montfort Dunn, 93 or so, left for Mexico for the
winter,
last week, so that's one contemporary (maybe the only one) that
is
not available.
When you finalize your plans, please let me know when you'll be
here.
Hugh
Hugh Heimdahl
hheimdah@marineonstcroix.com
marineonstcroix.com
651 433 4037
Subject:
Re: More from Marine
Date:
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 12:08:47 -0500
From:
"Jim Johnson" <jjohnson@rcs.org>
To:
"Stuart Armstrong" <sarmstrong@radix.net>
CC:
"Hugh Heimdahl" <hheimdah@marineonstcroix.com>
References:
1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Mr Armstrong --
I would be delighted to meet with you when you come. We shall be
in Norway
from 6 November to 15 November.
Our phone number is 651.433.2001.
Please let me know when you will be coming to Marine.
Jim Johnson
Subject:
Re: 1935 map... Possible November visit to Twin Cities
Date:
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 21:47:50 -0400
From:
Stuart Armstrong <sarmstrong@Radix.Net>
To:
hheimdah@marineonstcroix.com
CC:
Jim Johnson <jjohnson@rcs.org>
References:
1 , 2
October 23, 1999
Dear Hugh,
Thanks for your response. I contacted Jim Johnson as well and am
very
happy that everyone is has been positive. My father and I are
looking
forward to our trip. We will probably be up around the weekend of
November 20th and will let you know more as our plans develop.
By the way, you mentioned that Montfort Dunn had left for Mexico.
Is
his brother Jim around? My father remembers him. My father was
born in
1916 by the way. Regarding a walking tour, I would be happy to go
on
one, but my father tires very easily. But I am sure he will be
interested in how the town has changed since 1935.
I am running out of historic documents to send your way, but I do
have
one more... a xerox of an old wood engraving of Marine on St.
Croix,
with an impressive steamboat in the foreground. The original was
done
around 1880. It was reprinted around 1930, and was the reference
used
for the steamboat on the border of the 1935 map. You may have it
already. I scanned it a while back and will try to send it your
way. I can't take any credit for these items, since they were all
done or collected by the previous generation of Armstrongs. But I
am
very happy to send them back your way as well as to have the
opportunity
to visit their source.
Best regards,
Stuart Armstrong
Subject: Re: More from Marine
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:12:46 -0600
From: "Jim Johnson" <jjohnson@rcs.org>
To: "Stuart Armstrong" <sarmstrong@radix.net>
Hugh may have some good ideas. Either his house or mine or the
Brookside or
Crabtrees might make some sense. Jim Johnson
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