The Healing House A Memoir Author:Elaine Ostergren Adams Before antibiotics and today?s assorted miracle pills, only fresh air and summer sunshine around the Hayden Lake farmhouse could enable a California city child to recover from near-fatal TB, rheumatic fever and pneumonia. The Idaho farmhouse, homesteaded in 1893 by Swedish immigrants Jacob and Christina Thunborg, is a symbol of the friendships n... more »urtured with the author?s four grandparents?also immigrants from Sweden?when all met at the same Spokane boardinghouse in then-Washington territory. More than a century has passed, four generations of the author?s family savor fond memories and, in 1985, the venerable farmhouse was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Other memories include a child?s view of the S.F. Bay Area in the 1930s?the romance of luxurious train travel, construction of the magnificent Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridges, Treasure Island, the World?s Fair?and more.« less