Time in Thy Flight, Book Two: Echoless Shore

Time in Thy Flight, Book Two: Echoless ShoreMore than a family archival project, Echoless Shore deliberates on how to tell the story of the generations, now gone, that give us lifenot only the genes and raw material that we often deny in order to be our own person, but also the old habits, penchants, predilections, dreams, and desires that become hardwired, consciously or unconsciously, into our own moment of being. In this volume, Virgil Olson starts with Scandinavian immigrants who come to

More than a family archival project, Echoless Shore deliberates on how to tell the story of the generations, now gone, that give us lifeÑnot only the genes and raw material that we often deny in order to be our own person, but also the old habits, penchants, predilections, dreams, and desires that become hardwired, consciously or unconsciously, into our own moment of being. In this volume, Virgil Olson starts with Scandinavian immigrants who come to America and quickly settle on homesteading the Plains of North Dakota. He traces the accidents of chance that brought his family together and created pivotal turning points or offshoots in a family tree. In absence of direct accounts of personal experience, he shows instead how history and geography place past lives in half light. Grounded in a concern to respond to the mysteries of being human, Echoless Shore bravely poses questions to an unknown and unverifiable to touch upon the traces of people who can no longer reach us on our own shores.