Keywords
family history, immigrants, United States
Abstract
They met in Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark. Ray Garred was a United States Navy sailor with a squadron of battleships sent by President William Howard Taft on a goodwill tour of England, the Scandinavian capitals, and Kronstadt, St. Petersburg's port city and Russian naval base. She was a Danish girl, Olavia Frederiksen, who had spent four years in the United States as a domestic servant and had learned English in an evening school for immigrants. The year was 1911, summer time. Tivoli, as many tourists know, is a natural place for visitors to Copenhagen to congregate, and it was where a couple of thousand American sailors went to meet Danes, especially Danish girls. Ray and Olavia began corresponding. They were both twenty-eight years of age.
Recommended Citation
Garred, Willard R.
(2003)
"My Re-Americanization,"
The Bridge: Vol. 26:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol26/iss1/6
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