Courtesy of Hans Fugal, these first ten pages of letters to fro

Courtesy of Hans Fugal, these ten-page sets of letters to/from Niels Fugal are available on this website,www.fugal.net. There are 34 sets, for a total 340 pages. Also posted in a separate file are pertinent photosas to the time frame of the letters.These letters were stored on the opposite side of the wall where the fire began at the Niels Fugal home inNovember of 2000. That fire was way hot, and it consumed completely the tires and upholstery of the carin the garage. There was no firewall between the garage and the house. The house should have beencondemned but Norma was determined to resurrect it from the ashes, making it better than it was.Providentially if not intentionally, these letters survived. I fully believe it was so they could be shared.They are very brittle, and time is wasting. My sister, Lois, started the project many years ago, and many ofyou have copies she made of certain letters.Grandpa Fugal was most insightful the whole of his life. Grandma Fugal was to her grandchildren a quitedifferent person than you will find in these letters. She was 19 and pregnant before he left two months aftertheir marriage, which in those days meant closeting and limiting of previously enjoyed socializing; she livedwith her father and others, watching those around her live lives seemingly more fulfilling, getting lettersfrom a husband whose life was occupied, enriched and full, largely because he attitudinally chose it so. Nodoubt this hard ...