A Danish Lad in America

Authors

Fred Delcomyn

Keywords

immigration, bilingualism, childhood, culture

Abstract

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” So said L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between (1953). Looking back on myself as a young immigrant child in Detroit at mid-century, the phrase seems especially apt. In my past I was quite literally in a foreign country.

Recommended Citation

Delcomyn, Fred (2016) "A Danish Lad in America," The Bridge: Vol. 39: No. 1, Article 10.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol39/iss1/10