Description
Dr. Joseph Herman Romig and his wife, Ella, were sent to Bethel in 1896 by the Moravian Church in response to the medical needs of the Kuskokwim region Eskimos. When the Geese Come: The Journals of a Moravian Missionary Ella Mae Ervin Romig 1898–1905, Southwest Alaska is a daily journal kept as correspondence to the family she left in Pennsylvania. The nursing school graduate and the young doctor were newly-weds when they arrived in Bethel to fulfill their shared desire to help others. Black and white photos and maps were added to the journal translation.
