Ready now
Teep
Pete Amoth on the North Dakota farm his family wasn’t allowed to keep, recorded by his son in Idaho in 2011 and at the Outer Banks in 2013, seven months before he died. Eight stories, in his own words.
As I Remember It
The memoir he typed himself. Eighteen pages, carried as far as 1951 and stopped mid-story in a Navy barracks. He’s more guarded on the page than on the recordings, and reading the two side by side is half the fun.
For immediate family
Teep—the complete account
Everything he said across both sessions, not a selection, with the two recordings in the page. Eighty-five minutes of his voice.
The McGregor Saga
The story of the line: a weaver’s son from near Musselburgh, the Old Scot Preacher, and the graves that were moved twice.
The Kjemhus Story
The story of the line: sixteen generations up a Norwegian valley, and the farms whose names became surnames.
For immediate family
The Wild Fiddler of Numedal
Eighty-eight pages on the Kjemhus line and the valley it came out of, written as a book. A draft—read it as a work in progress and say what’s wrong.
Away
Carl and Bev’s travel posts since 2008, trip by trip—Patagonia, Hawaii, Italy, New England and a long road trip west—as they wrote them on the road.