Jakob’s Final Resting Place (After Being Booted Out of Osterwick)
When I first read Peter Brown’s book The Brauns of Osterwick, I never expected to actually see the gravesite of my great-great-great-grandfather Jakob Braun. It […]
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School Cairns & Cohorts
My love for cairns is maybe a little strange. I don’t know anyone else that slams on the brakes whenever they see a cairn. (Well, […]
Halbstadt & the Awesome Cairn!
For some reason I have it in my head that author Armin Wiebe was familiar with Halbstadt in his boyhood. I cannot trace nor recall […]
What’s the Deal with Glencross?
Don’t you just love how I run around the West Reserve, not really knowing much about the history (not the way locals do, anyway!) and […]
Found the Braun Cairn at Glencross!
Over a year ago, my mom told me about a cairn “somewhere near Morden” that was dedicated to my great-great-great-grandparents, Jacob and Maria (Fast) Braun. […]