The Emigrants - Book Group Discussion

Today was the Books at 12:10 book group discussion of The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg. I brought in a map of Skansen and the 125th Anniversary Booklet of First Lutheran Church of Tacoma, Washington. The novel is historic preservation of the characters intimate feelings and subconscious motivations. The Carnegie Library, over a hundred years old, faces on the earliest site of First Lutheran Church across the street. The Emigrants sailed in 1950, Peter Carlson emigrated in 1854 and in the 1880's toured the Pacific Northwest to found Lutheran churches. There was a lot of appreciation and discussion about refugees and the roles of women and about social reform in Sweden. We stuck to the novel primarily.

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Older Posts in May 2008 have been edited for embedded video

At the Joseph Biden Rally

This event youtube shows at about 3 minutes in, the crowd at the rally doing The Wave.

Election Night

On Election Night I have taken the bus from Puyallup along the Puyallup River and into the darkening evening in Tacoma. I have never owned a car, I use public transportation, walk, or ride a bike. So on Election Evening I am where I am at, where I have been so many years in transit, from University and on. There are a lot of election items to follow. As a Hillary Clinton supporter for Barack Obama and Joseph Biden, I relate to the sight of what we call America.

Tacoma Reads Together - The Emigrants

This "tour of the emigrant's district" contains a photo from The Emigrants movie which shows their ship, The Catharina.

Language

When Tacoma Reads Together did The Crucible a couple of years back, during one discussion I brought up a book with my own disclaimer to the title, because I do not make a habit of using language that is like this and if I do I try to get myself back to making a better choice. But this book is a philosophical treatment of this word. The word really deserves this treatment, because people who use this word usually are reiterating for shock effect, but sometimes they really have a clear meaning in context. Halloween is here and a candidate has been hanged in effigy in California, but because they are not a black male the incident lacks historical impact in the United States.

At The Rally

The walk from the bus to the rally area was quiet the day before when I checked to see if I would be on the right track on Sunday. On Sunday the side of the street was packed with roadsigns and other people were walking in too.

Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell spoke, Governor Christine Gregoire introduced Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Joseph Biden. In this photo lots of photographers are taking pictures of Joseph Biden.