"I came to this country and I missed that good music. And I missed going dancing. You know there was no such thing. My parents didn't go anyplace like that. And I said – Dad thought, well, it was hard for me. He went and got a wet battery, you know, for our radio. We didn't have electricity, and you had to have the wet battery for the radio so that I could at least listen to the music. And I happened to hear Guy Lombardo's band. And I thought, 'Well, if they can have music like that, there must be something good to be found here eventually,' I thought."
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Carla Due was born in Denmark. Her parents emigrated to Nebraska when she was about two years old, but they decided the trip would be too dangerous for Carla. She grew up with her grandparents. When she was about 10 or 12 her folks tried twice to get her to come to the U.S. but she resisted. Finally, when she was 16 she crossed the Atlantic alone on a ship. She helped her parents farm, learned English, met her husband Bernard at a dance and then helped him farm.
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