The only surviving member of the Snibjorn and Anna Grimson family, Pearl Grimson Lindstrom Bingham, gently and lovingly recounts the memories shared with her by her parents and connects them with her own first-hand experiences. Thus emerges a family's history--beginning with a young immigrant couple who claimed a tract of land through the Homestead Act of 1862 to the present-day fourth generation. Pearl received her higher education in Chicago where she met and married Harry Lindstrom. While she has had a successful banking career, traveled extensively, and enjoyed a full social life, Pearl's first priority has always been the best interest and the happiness of her children--and her grandchildren--who remain the source of her greatest pride and joy. In this delightful collection of her most precious "strands" of memory, Pearl reconstructs for her family and friends, life on the Great Plains of Northeastern North Dakota, the paths that led her away from her childhood home, and her journey to the present.