Story Portfolio
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Filming of "The Heartbreak Kid"
Ed officiates at a movie wedding
When Ed Eilertsen "crossed the bridge"
In a dramatic moment while crossing the Mississippi River, he broke with his parents' austere…
Ed Eilertsen tribute puzzle
Ed loved crosswords, so Dan Ruby created a tribute puzzle for his memorial. Kate and Twyla…
Eilertsens by the lake
Ed was the rector at Saint Martin's By the Lake in Minnetonka Beach, Minn. The family was raised…
Eilertsens at sea
Members of a farming family took to the sea both as an occupational calling and a means of…
The Stetsons of Sumner, Maine
Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American…
Family roots in the Plymouth colony
Isetta Stetson descended from early Massachusetts colonists, going all the way back to the …
Eilertsen roots in Farsund, Norway
Farmers and seafarers from the south Norway coast
First grandchild
Twyla Ariel Eilertsen Ruby was born on August 7, 1985
The Meeker Massacre
Social reformer Nathan Meeker was among nine men killed in an uprising of Ute Indians at the…
The Eilertsens in Brooklyn
From Red Hook to Gerritsen Beach to Bay Ridge, Jack and Camilla Eilertsen lived the Norwegian…
The Bennetts in Scobey and Helena
Of the four Bennett children who grew up on the Scobey ranch, Judith was the little sister
Life on the Western Reserve
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
Twyla's childhood
Outlooks of a pre-millennial
Bradley homestead in Wapello County, Iowa
Widow Patty Smith Swett and six children by two husbands were among the first settlers who…
Brood of Haskells in Chautauqua County
After service in the War of 1812, Vermonter George Haskell set out with his third wife and many…
The Stetson family’s manifest destiny
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country
