Salt lantern traces of an American family - Morgan, William Towner (University of Iowa Press, 1997)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
The Spaces and Places of My Childhood -- My Journey to Field Head, England -- My Journey to Ecclefechan, Scotland -- The Hallidays' Journey to America -- My Journey to Checkerberry Village, Vermont -- The Wisconsin Experience and the Landscape of War -- The Stannards of Taylors Falls, Minnesota -- The Hallidays, Hollidays and Browns of Goodhue County, Minnesota -- The Browns of Pipestone County, Minnesota -- North Dakota Pioneers: The Hallidays, Hollidays, and Stramblads -- My Journey to Glencolumbkille, Ireland -- My Father's Story -- Conclusion and Family Album -- Appendix 1. "Weighed in the Balance" -- Appendix 2. The Architecture of a Craftsman Bungalow -- Appendix 3. Gen. George J. Stannard, Frogotten Hero of the Civil War -- Appendix 4. "Fifteen Months on a North Dakota Claim."
As a child growing up in Pipestone, Minnesota, in the 1930s, William Morgan marveled over his great-grandmother's salt-filled chimney lantern. Full of sea salt and mementos and drawings that commemorated her British home and her journey to America in 1855, this Victorian artifact became the inspiration both for Morgan's pilgrimage to find the original salt lantern and, after many journeys both external and internal, for this multifaceted family history