Arlin and I returned on Saturday July 9 from a chamber music workshop at Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata on the far north coast of California. Arlin worked half days from our dorm room while I was rehearsing.

One of the pieces I played was the piano quintet by Elfrida Andrée, a 19th-century Swedish woman composer born in Visby. When I introduced the piece I mentioned that even though she left Gotland early in her life, she more than likely rode on our (Betsy’s and my) great-grandfather’s Gotland ferry when she came back to visit.