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Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer: Those Guy Never Skated on No River Ice

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer: Those Guy Never Skated on No River Ice

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer: Those Guy Never Skated on No River Ice – Just About Goners in the Icy Water near Bakka Published in Icelandic Connection Vol 71 #2 Feature image: The Icelandic River ice melting in spring – Photo Courtesy Kim...

7th May 2020 Glenn Sigurdson Icelandic River, Short Stories 1 Comments

When Knowledge Came with a Knock

When Knowledge Came with a Knock

Encyclopedias, a cultural icon of the 20th century, were in almost every home. With the post-millennial generation, they silently slipped into obscurity and the dustbin of history. Encyclopedias touched our lives in many ways, whether it was to...

10th March 2020 Glenn Sigurdson Career, Family, First Nations, fishing, history, Iceland, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories, Sigurdson, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean 0 Comments

Mina-Skan: When Friendships and Work Began with a Fish Box

Mina-Skan: When Friendships and Work Began with a Fish Box

The Life and Times of Leifi Hallgrimson and Walter Nanowin Published in Icelandic Connection Vol 70 #4 Scene 1 – Big Black River Station, June 1936 He awoke to a rattling sound. “What the hell is that?” he thought, opening his eyes. He looked...

21st April 2019 Glenn Sigurdson Short Stories 1 Comments

The Heartbeat of Reconciliation: “Your Dad and Auntie were such good friends”

The Heartbeat of Reconciliation: “Your Dad and Auntie were such good friends”

My dad, Stefan Sigurdson, passed away in 2012. Our close collaboration in the years prior to his death was invaluable to me in writing Vikings On a Prairie Ocean, published in 2014. It enabled me to ground the book confident in its detail and...

19th March 2018 Glenn Sigurdson Family, fishing, Friendship, history, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories, Sigurdson, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean 0 Comments

Where Have All The Whitefish Gone… A Long Time Passing

Where Have All The Whitefish Gone… A Long Time Passing

This article was first published in Logberg Heimskringla. Billy Valgardson, my longtime friend, once a teacher and often a mentor, has a gift for pressing hot buttons in my emotional library. Recently, on Facebook, he managed to do so again with...

19th January 2016 Glenn Sigurdson Career, fishing, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean 1 Comments

The Power of Human Connection

As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel...

14th January 2016 Glenn Sigurdson history, Iceland, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories 0 Comments

“I’ll just go back fishing in Hecla”

As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel...

27th December 2014 Glenn Sigurdson Career, Family, First Nations, fishing, history, Iceland, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories, Sigurdson, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean 0 Comments

Thank God for the Fish

As I was writing Vikings on a Prairie Ocean, several pieces that I had written as fictionalized accounts based on historical facts did not find their way into the final manuscript and I now publish them on this web site as a mini-series sequel. …...

23rd December 2014 Glenn Sigurdson Career, Family, First Nations, fishing, history, Iceland, Lake Winnipeg, Short Stories, Sigurdson, Vikings on a Prairie Ocean 0 Comments
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