Eric Enstrom shot "Grace" in a small Minnesota town in 1918. More than a million copies have been sold.

Eric's twin brothers, Lars and Olaf, immigrated to Minnesota in 1892 from a small town in Sweden.

Lars had seven children, including a daughter, Alice.

Alice had two children, a son and a daughter. Howard, the son, attended school in Minnesota before eventually settling with his family in northern California, where he taught journalism at the neighborhood university.

Howard had two daughters and two sons. Last week the younger son was invited to a reunion in Atwater (population: 1,097), an hour west of Minneapolis. Descendants of the Enstroms, none of whom he had ever met, had flown in from around the country and were having a morning church service at Atwater's Swedish Lutheran church. Then they were going to commemorate the log cabin (still standing) in which the original family member spent his first winter, back in 1868.

The son couldn't find a ride, so he did laundry instead.