On The Mark: Family history runs through our reunions
August 9, 2019
I've long admired the way some area families are so locally present. Hosting a reunion requires little more than picking a date, sending out the word and preparing food. Since the last Stillwater reunion in 2006, my generation of an extraordinarily dispersed family has taken the initiative, organizing a reunion in Cambria, California (2014) and this July back in Minnesota.
Our Markusen/Lee/Wilson family settled in Stillwater in the late 1880s, our forefathers and foremothers generating lots of progeny. Over the years, we've radiated out. A goodly number live in Minnesota, in Duluth, Cloqu...
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