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Fritz and the Family Cane
In July 2026, Mary Jean, Virgil and Linda went to visit with Fritz and Barb in Verona. Mary Jean related this story about the visit: “Fritz brought out a most unusual cane and told us what he was told of its history. Lawrence Haag was father to our Grampa Albert Haag. Fritz said he thinks it was Lawrence Haag’s dad and his wife (John and Rosina Maria Haag) who walked in the woods in Baden, Germany. He saw a limb on a tree with an unusual growth, found it very interesting. He thought about it the next day, went back, and cut it off the tree. When home, he nailed…
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It Started With a Frame
Mary Jean and Lorraine came to visit Kim and me last year (2025), bringing boxes of framed items, photographs, documents and home movies. This was the starting point for this website that you’re now perusing. One of the items was an elaborately framed piece, which I sort of forgot about, as I was in the middle of scanning and researching other material that they brought. I was also a bit nervous about taking the piece apart, in order to scan the individual photographs, as I didn’t know how complicated the framing was. When Mary Jean and Lorraine returned last week (March 2026), they brought more material and were going to…