Category: Ann Sigford

I’ve had a crush on Carl since I was a kid. I think my dad told me about him. I wished I could have met him, but he died before I could do that. But in his honor, I followed his trail all the way to Lapland, in the very far north of Sweden, and…

She was born in 1912, in a little Swedish town. She didn’t have it easy. Her mom died shortly after she was born, leaving her father with seven little daughters to feed and raise on a laborer’s salary. It was her mother’s sister, Julia and her husband, childless, who took in the waif and raised…