A 75-Year-Old
J. Jakobsson, Östanmossa, Norberg, turns seventy-five years old on Saturday 10 November…. Mr. Jakobsson was born in Norberg parish and…
Tracing My Swedish Family Names
What might seem simple—a person’s name—turns out to be full of complexity. When looking into family history I found there…
Life on the Harraseeket
Many communities are found along the shores of the Haraseeket estuary in Freeport, Maine. A community is any interacting group…
History Jackpot
I hit the jackpot searching the online Swedish American Newspapers database of the Minnesota Historical Society. My grandfather’s marriage announcement…
Mothers Day
It’s Mother’s Day and I am thinking of when my mother opened her eyes, I held her, and she was…
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Woodmont Road
It was my parents’ dream to make something special of the house on Woodmont Road, their first. My detail-oriented dad…
Caring for the Globe
No, I’m not talking about the Earth. Rather, the world globe given to my father upon his graduation from high…
Boxer Menagerie
Every day I think of my animal friends when dressing.
New Pond Environment
Begun in 2017, I completed my plan for the pond environs five years later (not bad, considering the length of…
Candlewood Lake
Our family enjoyed going to Candlewood Lake in western Connecticut on summer weekends. It turns out my father had been…
Acadia Outings
I’ve lost track of visits to Acadia, which is not surprising given that my home is adjacent to the national…
New York-Bound, 1902
After traveling by train across Sweden, Carl Albin Jacobsson arrived Göteborg Central Station at 7:03 on the morning of Monday,…
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