Anne Hanson > Quotes

“From 1870 until 1920, about a million Swedes, or a fifth of the population, left Sweden for North America—one of the highest rates of emigration from a European country.7 Poverty, a rising population, and lack of jobs and land, along with forced military service”
― Anne Hanson, Buried Secrets: Looking for Frank and Ida

“When I was a toddler, the child of another scientist in his lab had contracted amoebic dysentery from monkey excrement the fellow had unwittingly tracked home on his shoes. Horrified, thereafter my dad had always donned slippers immediately upon entering the house, a practice he had continued after retirement.”
― Anne Hanson, Buried Secrets: Looking for Frank and Ida

“and religious intolerance, pushed this mass tide of Swedes onto ships bound for “Amerika,” as the promised land was called in emigration records.”
― Anne Hanson, Buried Secrets: Looking for Frank and Ida

“education is the closest thing most of us have to religion,”
― Anne Hanson, Buried Secrets: Looking for Frank and Ida