Thanks

Thank you to the American Latvian Association’s Culture Fund for funding this project.

Biggest thanks to the descendants of the Lincoln Latvians: Chuck and Rick Bolder, Shirley (Pike) Forte, Bonnie and Michael Galkin, Eugene Graf, Dolores and Rudy Gustin, Shirely Anne Krahn, Judy (Bolder) Koller, Christine Malone, Barbara and Jeff Mondeik, Jessica Newman, Alfred and Jean Pike, Dorothy (Pike) Richardson, Cynthia Wachsmuth; as well as Lincoln local history specialist Holly Lange and Latvian exchange student in Lincoln Tālis Tjarve.

Thank you also to the Immigation History Research Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Aina Rozenbergs for her hospitality and Andris Straumanis for taking part in the trip to Lincoln.

Thank you as well to Latvians Abroad – Museum and Research Centre colleagues Marianna Auliciema, Maija Hinkle, Jeremy Smedes, Brigita Tamuža and Ieva Vītola.

Text: Antra Celmiņa and Brigita Tamuža
Editor: Ieva Leijasmeijere