Pasties!

My first memory of a specific food is from Negaunee, Michigan -- my mother bought pasties, and along with a bottle of ketchup, and a bottle of pop, we had a picnic on the nearby bluff. Over seventy years later, I can still feel the warmth of the large rock we sat on, with the sun beating down, eating a pasty and drinking orange pop! 

For many of us, the U.P. means "PASTIES." Many of us reminded of the pasties we ate when we were very young made by the church ladies in Trout Creek; or Grandma Curtis's pasties; or Roberg's pasties;  or pasty day at school; all of these bring wonderful memories. We bought pasties at the football games, and watching the ski jumping competitions; we bought them at the bakery and at the dime store; and we bought them to eat on picnics or at roadside rest stops.

About 25 years ago, Jerry and I took a trip across the Upper Peninsula.  We ate pasties from one end of the UP to the other. Some were really really good; some weren't worth eating -- but it was a fun trip!

My kids grew up eating "pasty pie" -- pasty ingredients (without carrots or fish) inside a lower and upper crust in a large pie pan.  In addition to the ingredients below though, we always seasoned it with salt and pepper, and "dotted" the top with butter before we closed the pastry.

Debbie and Wally have the Pasty Corner in Iron River -- and over the years whenever we could, we brought in a cooler and left with it full of frozen pasties to bring back to the cities. Some of the trips, we called our "pasty runs."

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Now when I run out of pasties, I can make a trip to County Market in Hudson, Wisconsin, and buy several frozen pasties from the Pasty Oven in Iron Mountain (but baked in Florence, Wisconsin.) I no longer can make as many trips to the Upper Peninsula as I used to!

Today while rummaging in a box of papers, I found a Pasty recipe on the back of a post card!

Anyone out there want to share your favorite pasty recipe?????

Relatives from Sweden

Photos of 5 generations of Lisbeth's family!

Linda (DCA aaa) and Lisbeth (DCA aa) standing;
Berit (DCA a) holding Nellie (DCA aaa) and Grandmother Ester who died in October)

Nellie's Great-Grandmother Berit and Grandmother Lisbeth standing;
Mother Linda holding Nellie, and Nellie's Great-Great-Grandmother Ester

Thank you for sharing these photos, Lisbeth!

Snow Storm in Negaunee

Only this snowstorm occurred in 1937! This Associated Press photo was in newspapers across the United States, and it's one of my favorites. Everybody they knew sent copies. I wish I still had a copy of the article that went along with it!

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan hosts the snowiest places in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains (aside from the summit of Mt. Washington) thanks to persistent snow squalls blowing off Lake Superior and unloading their precipitation over the hills of the Keweenaw Peninsula and the Huron Mountains west of Marquette. Herman takes top honors with an average of 236” of snow each winter season (Mt. Washington averages 310”). 

Ward loved snow; and he loved shoveling snow his entire life -- he always had perfectly shoveled driveways and sidewalks. Nancy (me) was born in the middle of a snowstorm. Margaret was sent to the hospital in Marquette 3 days early to make sure she was there when I was born. They talked of not being able to see people walking on the sidewalks when they took me home from the hospital because of the height of the snow piles next to the street. Notice the snow shovel Ward is using. The first patent for a lighter, plastic snow shovel was granted in 1939 to a Robert A. Smith.

When I was a little girl, as soon as it began to snow, the plows in Negaunee would be out plowing. When we moved to St. Paul, we were in for quite a surprise. St. Paul waited until it quit snowing -- and then only the "snow routes" were plowed; some of the side streets in the city were never plowed -- people who had cars drove in the ruts. We didn't have a car; we rode the streetcar wherever we went that was more than 6 blocks. The grocery store was 2 blocks away; the school and the library were three blocks away and church was 4 blocks away. There was a variety store, another grocery store and a meat market 3 blocks in another direction. Everything we needed was within walking distance, unless we went "downtown" or to Montgomery Wards and that was a long ways away for a little girl. Both Ward and Margaret took the streetcar to work.

So many memories of a far different time.....

Ward Elwood Lundwall

Birth: 25 Jun 1910 in Commonwealth, Florence, Wisconsin
Death: 18 Sep 1999 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA

Family Members

Parents

         

Fritz Oscar Lundwall 1884 – 1944

         

Teckla Matilda Ekquist 1889 – 1967


Margaret & Ward

Spouse & Children

        

Margaret Hazel Backstrom 1917 – 1985


         

Nancy Adele Lundwall 1939 – 

         

Norene Ardis Lundwall 1949 – 

         

Douglas Ray Lundwall 1952 –
 

Timeline
        Birth - 
1910 Jun 25, Commonwealth, Florence, 
Wisconsin 
       

        Residence
1920 — Age: 10 
Caspian, Iron, Michigan 
       

        Residence
1930 — Age: 20 
Spurr, Baraga, Michigan 
       

        Residence
1937 — Age: 27 
Negaunee, Michigan 
       

        Marriage Margaret Hazel Backstrom
 1937 — Age: 27 
        Palmer, Michigan

        Residence
1940 1 Apr — Age: 29 Negaunee, Mich.

        Residence
1944 — Age: 34 St. Paul, Minnesota - Worked in munitions factory
  
       

        Residence
1947 — Age: 37 Hibbing, Minnesota -
Owned Ward's Grocery Street, East 3rd Ave.
       
     
        Residence
1950 — Age: 40 
North Hibbing, Minnesota 
Worked in Iron Mine
       

        Residence
1952 — Age: 42 
St. Paul, Minnesota 
Worked for Northwest Airlines
       

        Residence
1954 — Age: 44 
Kingsford, Michigan 
       

        Residence
1957 — Age: 47 
St. Paul Park, Washington, Minnesota Worked for NWA 
       

        Residence
1960 — Age: 50 
St Paul, Minnesota, USA 
       

        Residence
1995 — Age: 85 
Minneapolis, MN 
       

        Death
1999 18 Sep — Age: 89 
Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA 
       

Source Information
        1920 United States Federal Census
        1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Residence
       
        1930 United States Federal Census
        1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Residence
       
        1940 United States Federal Census
        1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Residence
       
        Ancestry Family Trees
        This citation provides evidence for Ward Elwood Lundwall
       
        Minnesota, Death Index, 1908-2002
        1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Death
       
        Social Security Death Index
        1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Death
       
        U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta)
        2 citations provide evidence for Name, Residence
       
        U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
        1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Residence
       
        Web: Minnesota, Find A Grave Index, 1849-2011
        1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Death
       
        Web: Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2012
        1 citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Death

Obituary:

Ward Elwood Lundwall

June 25, 1910 – September 18, 1999

Ward Lundwall was born June 25, 1910 in Commonwealth, Wisconsin, the second child and eldest son of Teckla (Ekquist) and Oscar Lundwall. Ward was brother to Nancy, Hazel, Doris, Margaret, Violet, Ray, Alice, Kenneth, Lloyd, Janet and Marlin.

During his childhood, the family lived in Caspian, Michigamme, and Palmer, all in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and throughout his life, Ward loved the U.P., his extended family, and trout fishing with his best friend and brother-in-law, David DeVowe, in Trout Creek.

Ward married Margaret Backstrom of Hibbing, Minnesota, on June 19, 1937. The newlyweds lived in Negaunee, Michigan where Ward worked in the underground iron mines. Daughter Nancy was born April 8, 1939.

In 1943, Ward and Margaret moved to St. Paul where Ward worked in a munitions plant. In 1947, the family moved to Hibbing, Minnesota, where Ward opened a neighborhood grocery store. Daughter Norene was born November 23, 1949. Ward also began his lifetime love affair with new cars when he bought a 1949 Studebaker, the first new car of many!

In 1952, Ward was hired by Northwest Airlines and the family moved back to St. Paul where son Douglas was born on June 3, 1952. In 1953, following a layoff from NWA, the family moved to Kingsford, Michigan, where he worked for Kingsford Chemical Company. When they ceased operations, Ward worked for a short time at the Nash plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

In 1954, Ward was recalled by Northwest Airlines where he worked as a plating mechanic until his retirement in 1975. During this time, the family lived in St. Paul Park, Minnesota.

Margaret & Ward, Swedish Folk Dancers

Ward was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret, in 1985. Ward lovingly cared for Margaret at home during the three years of her illness.

Petertil family at Christmas

Just wanted to share photos from Joan! Thank you for sending these, Joan.

The Petertil Family, Christmas 2013

Thea and Ella on Christmas Eve