This week's prompt is "Artistic." That immediately made me think of something Mildred Strand wrote in a letter to my mother back in February 1981. She mentioned how proud she was of the drawing talent of her grandchildren, especially Ilene, Marvin, Esther and Venon.
On the Henrickson side, there is more artistic talent. Music seems to run in the family. In this article from the local paper, it mentions the local Swedish community celebrating Midsummer in June. The entertainment included songs sung by one George Henrickson, among others. George, and his wife, Malvina, were both organists at the local church. This ability to play was passed on to my grandfather, Raymond Henrickson. My mom recalled being somewhere once and suddenly seeing her dad go over to the piano and start to play a tune. She never even knew he could play!
Artistic talent also exists on the Strand(t) side of the family too. Carl Strand's 1st cousin, George Strandt, who lived in Chicago, became an organist and played around the country. It was exciting when the Show Business cousin would come visit the country relatives in Allegan.
George was not the only Strandt with musical talent. His oldest son became quite well-known playing jazz organ.
There are more examples of musical talent on this branch of the Strandt family too. They seemed to get all the musical genes. :)
Very interesting. Thanks
ReplyDeleteLong story short, when I had my band we asked to play for the Lutheran church in Allegan MI for a gathering during the summer. We did this for a couple years.It wasn’t till about about 3 years after they stopped the summer gatherings that I found out that the Lutheran church had moved from the original site of 114 th ave. That was the church that was started by none other than Charles Anderson. In which George Henrickson played the organ for. So I was able to play and sing for the same church that my Great great grandfather started and great grandfather played music for. By the way they have the bell from the old church sitting in the entrance of the new church.
ReplyDeleteThat's very cool! I'm glad they saved the original bell. It's cool that you were able to play for the church. They probably didn't realize they were keeping a family tradition going. :)
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