Wonderful story, that's so cool that you have family history with your machine. I won't go into what happened to my grandmothers machine it just makes me sad now. Do you use your machine?
Reading your post made me remember that somewhere around here I have a Minnesota head. Maybe someday I'll do something with it too. I also have a FW, it's not my favorite machine but it's handy for taking to the kids place.
Cari