86. Wayne's Swedish grandfather, a KEY HARP player -- unusual instrument!
Wayne's grandfather, Johann Wengren Eckman was quite an interesting character. His wife was the "gun toting grandma" told about in blog # 75, written on January 21, 2014 . I will include here pages from our book which are print screened. This is a grandfather who was born in Sweden, married, and joined the Church there. His parents and several other siblings and relatives had come already. Please see post #75, which tells of his parents who were the first generation to come to the United States. I said that I'd tell more of his playing the key harp . Here it is: When Wayne and I (Pal) went on our mission to Sweden in 1994-1995, we were able to visit the grave of this grandfather in the small town of Brunna. The photo is above. The following is from a newspaper article written about him in Sweden when he was 91 years old. The article was written in Swedish and Wayne translated it. The article wa...