As I was leaving Salt Lake City last week, I received a voicemail from my host in Kenmare, ND. He said he liked one carving so well that he took his front end loader and moved it to his yard. He also said that the Kenmare News had run a story about me and my carvings.
One of Sudeith’s goals for the project is to tell the story of a particular family in a particular place, using images related to American technology. “It’s a way to honor ancestors and to illustrate the broader history of the area,” he said. “The people here were coming from Scandinavia and took up wheat farming, and then there have been all these technological changes in farming.”
To put it another way, by telling the specific story of a single family one can tell a broader story of America and the history of technology.
