David Rosenthal: evaluation

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…This is pre-World War I Germany, too. Yes, so more to the story here. The stated purpose and idea was that they were going to convert the farm from an agricultural farm into a timber farm, into a timber forest. Ingvar’s grandfather, Achim, had been connected to the timber trade in Germany, so idea makes sense on paper. Unfortunately though, it doesn’t work out. The next year after they immigrate in 1897, Ingvar’s grandfather Achim, commits suicide. That leaves his grandmother, Franzisca, alone to raise three kids (one of which was just born), and manage this farm. She knows nothing about how to farm. It’s a really difficult farm to operate in a rural isolated part of a country that she’s not from, doesn’t speak the language. Totally rough.…

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