Harlan, originally from Woodworth, N.D., and now of Fort Worth, Texas, writes that “I am not the lutefisk lover in our family. But my wife just loves it, and she doesn’t have an ounce of Scandinavian blood in her.
“She grew up in Hibbing Minn., on da Range,” is the way he puts it.
“When I first started dating her, the first Christmas her folks made lutefisk, and I couldn’t even stand the smell.
“Her folks made it for breakfast, which made it even worse. I suppose because they were of German and English background, no one told them they weren’t supposed to eat it for breakfast.
“I have a sister in Moorhead who likes it, but she is the only one of the family who is in love with it.
“When our dad was alive, he could really put it away.
“I got a joke the other day,’ Harlan says in conclusion, “that said if you ate lutefisk you were immune from COVID-19.”
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Now here’s a story which involves not lutefisk, but coffee.
It’s of a teacher and his student getting together after many years.
The teacher was Roger Stenerson; his student was Harriet (Hansen) Holler.
Some time ago, "Neighbors" carried Roger’s story. It included Harriet.
Roger was a native of Van Hook, N.D. He attended Concordia College. He taught in schools in Minnesota and North Dakota.
One of those schools was the high school in Hunter, N.D., where Harriet was among his students.
Roger, who now is in his early 90s and lives in Plano, Texas, saw the column about himself and Harriet.
Through a phone book, he found Harriet’s number and called her.
“I was surprised and so happy to reconnect with him after so many years,” Harriet, now of Fargo, writes "Neighbors." “I had graduated from Hunter High School in 1952.”
The two agreed that if Roger ever got back to Fargo, they’d get together for coffee.
Well, it happened. Harriet writes that Roger did visit Fargo and, she says, “We had coffee together at the mall and we shared lots of memories.”
This, of course, was before the COVID-19 days.
“I love it when people get together after many years,” she writes.
Yes indeed, those reunions are great times.
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By the way, Roger’s sister, Lovila Stenerson, also taught school in North Dakota. That was in Niagara, west of Grand Forks.
There she met and married Herb Krueger, and lived there the rest of her life.
She died some years ago.
If you have an item of interest for this column, mail it to Neighbors, The Forum, Box 2020, Fargo, ND 58107, fax it to 701-241-5487 or email blind@forumcomm.com.
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