Ruth and Jewel's Story

My grandfather was studying the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. He had a theory that when a civilization hit a certain population index that they would fail. And he believed in this so much that he talked about 40 to 60 young philosophers, artists, painters, academics into all leaving Germany where they were living at the time. They sent my grandfather ahead to Alaska as a scout to look for free land in Alaska as part of the Homesteading Act. By the time my grandfather did find a place, nobody could get visas. My grandmother, who was dating a man named Pegas, he couldn't get a visa. So she made a really difficult decision to leave her family and her loved