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When Myrtle Rae Forberg steps from her father's boat to the floating dock at Rock Bay, and walks along the board walk to school, she takes her first steps from the water-constrained world in which she has lived since birth to the freedom and independence of a land based world in which she will live the remainder of her life. A nine-year-old granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants, Myrtle's story moves through bewildering and lonely experiences. First there is an adjustment from homeschooling, taught by her mother in their floathouse kitchen, to a one-room school with eight grades on land, in a...

Beyond the Floathouse, Lifelong Learning with friends and family is the sequel to Gunhild's Granddaughter. In this book a very shy, ordinary girl, who grew up enveloped by an insular loving family and surrounded by a world of water, finds education is a significant key to a multi-faceted career. From teaching to entrepreneurship to home building to volunteering, her path continues with a focus on learning new things. She travels widely with family and friends, finding ways to raise her own children with an awareness of important life lessons that were taught to her.

In 1898 Vancouver, British Columbia, the flip of a coin sends one young man to the Klondike gold rush leaving his partner, Andy Forberg, to carve a living from trees growing along the rocky coastline of remote British Columbia. One hundred years later his granddaughter, driven by a need to explore her family heritage, experiences a heart-warming welcome at the farm Andy left so long ago. from Fjord to Floathouse is the saga of hardy West Coast pioneers, who lived in snug floating homes and were sustained by surrounding sea and forest. Water transportation, written communication, semi-weekly...