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American Ice Cream: A Danish Girl's Discovery of Independence

American Ice Cream: A Danish Girl's Discovery of Independence

Hendershot, Kirsten Mærsk
Kanta, Julie Kirsten

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

ISBN13: 9798234150240
Publisher: Plumb Creative Books
Published: Jul 19 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.56 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

On June 20, 1960, Kirsten M rsk Dyhr left Copenhagen, Denmark, by ship with nineteen other young women and the leaders of Girl Scout Troop II Absalon for a summer with the American Girl Scouts of Manchester, Connecticut. Growing up in a post-WWII Scandinavian society, she experienced an entirely new perspective on personal freedom and independence. Within a culture of big cars, banana splits, and buildings that reached for the sky, Kis discovered more than the excess of mid-century Americana. It seemed there were no limits to the dreams they could achieve or the amount of ice cream they could consume. Through carefully translated letters, diary entries, and scrapbook pages, Kirsten's story of coming to the United States for the first time captures the spark of independence that ultimately led to the discovery of her own American spirit.

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