Today was the day for the Estonian History Society (Antipodean Chapter) involving more relative catch up and a visit to the ancestral home which is more than a little run down now.
Over forty years ago Jen and her mother were writing to her Great Aunt Julie in Estonia, this was a complicated procedure involving translators at both ends and continued till Great Aunt Julie died quite a few years ago. Today on looking around the abandoned and derelict old ancestral home a jumble of old papers and letters were discovered including most of the letters Jen sent to her Great Aunt Julie, photographs included.
The Old Homestead.
The property had several buildings and only luck had kept the correspondence dry.
Over the years vagrants, vandals and the weather have taken their toll on the old property. It was a miracle anything was left.
Time Capsule.
Three other Saaremaa tourist attractions presented themselves. They were no where near as exciting to the “troops” as the house however. It seems family history wins out over windmills, meteorite craters and ocean views.
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