och Hejsan Alla this is our 'Swedes in Wisconsin' website "För Alltid Svenska"
We are a klubb of Americans of Swedish heritage and transplanted Swedes who meet the first Tuesday of each month to learn about and celebrate our Swedish heritage. We are located among the woods and lakes and fields and rivers of Northwestern Wisconsin
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Thanks Larry for filling in with the program
Picture of the week Scandinavian Restaurant in Duluth Mn It was a great find. Takk for Maten of course means “thanks for the food” in the Norwegian spelling but it is an all inclusive Scandinavian restaurant featuring lots of Swedish fare; in the evening it becomes Kippis Tapas Bar with a strong Finnish theme, and fancy mixed drinks. July Newsletter now loaded, check newletter page
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På Svenska Camp, Text Messaging Championships, A Royal Wedding, Swedish Proverbs, Midsommar Dance video, Zorn Painting Price, , Anders Zorn Jubilee Year
Published: 27 Jul 10
Daniel Craig has officially signed on with Sony Picture to star in the lead role as journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the upcoming Hollywood film remake of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The news comes days after Natalie Portman denied she had been cast in the female lead role of hacker Lisbeth Salander. The movie, which will be directed by Fight Club's David Fincher, is due for release in 2011.
Craig is also contracted to star in the second and third installments of the Millennium books, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
The British actor was slated to begin working on his third 007 movie ahead of a 2011 or 2012 release, but the 23rd installment in the James Bond franchise has been put on hold indefinitely do to ongoing financial troubles at MGM.
Hi Terry,
Camp is over and despite the rain, it went very well and was a lot of fun. Here is a photo of this year's group. I gave away almost all the newsletters and people were happy to hear about you. Thank you,
Eva
When Malmö launched its Malmö Festival around 20 years ago, local daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet printed up t-shirts that said: "If you have seen Malmö, you have seen the world." | The Öresund Bridge, officially known as the Øresund bridge to reflect a combination of the Swedish and Danish spellings (Öresundsbron and Øresundsbroen), cost 30.1 billion Danish kronor ($4 billion in 2000 figures) to build and consists of a 7.85-kilometre bridge and 4.05-kilometre tunnel via the artificial island of Peberholmen. The project was forecast to recoup its costs by 2035 and would be entirely user-financed, but perhaps due to initially prohibitively high costs, the bridge got off to a relatively slow start. However, since 2005, traffic has steadily increased and there are now few who question its success. The completion of the bridge was followed closely by the start of the development of Västra Hamnen - an area long associated with perhaps the most prominent symbol of the city's industrial past, the Kockums shipyard crane. Much like the festival slogan revisited above, the city's attachment to the long-redundant dockyard crane was shaped by a tangible self-deprecating humour that visitors to the city can soon testify to. Its removal was not without controversy and the crane's silhouette can still occasionally be spotted on t-shirts worn by Malmö's more fashionable and heritage-savvy parents. Malmö was founded around 1275 and originally known as Malmhaug or "Gravel pile", it was long Denmark's second city. While some would argue that it remains so, one thing is for certain - the city no longer resembles a pile of crushed rock, and while the bridge has made it significantly easier to get away, it has also helped to make Malmö well worth a stopover, even for those who have seen Lund first. |
The correct video is now loaded and it is lovely;
Daniel Hortlund in Sweden sent us the following: Crown Princess Victoria married Daniel Westling in a lavish ceremony Sweden has celebrated a royal wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and her former fitness trainer. Victoria, 32, tied the knot with 36-year-old commoner Daniel Westling. More than 1,200 guests, including royals from around the world, attended the lavish ceremony in Stockholm Cathedral. The couple, who met in 2002, later rode through the capital in a horse-drawn carriage as tens of thousands of people lined the streets.
| Victoria was escorted down the aisle by her father. She is first in line to succeed him. After exchanging vows, the couple took to the same royal barge that Victoria's parents, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, used on their wedding day exactly 34 years ago. political power, but the king or queen represents the nation and greets foreign dignitaries. The newlyweds were transported to the Royal Palace, for an evening banquet with guests from around the world.It is Sweden's first royal wedding since 1976. Guests attending the festivities include the Norwegian and Danish royal families, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Prince Albert of Monaco, and the UK's Earl and Countess of Wessex. As Crown Princess Victoria's husband, gym owner Mr Westling has assumed the title of Prince Daniel, Duke of Vastergotland.
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Swedish hoteliers have already given tourists the chance to live in a hotel made of ice and a hotel under a lake, so it was only a matter of time before someone decided to put a hotel in a tree.
The Tree Hotel, in the village of Harads in northern Sweden, is in a sense not a new concept. There are plenty of other tree hotels around the world. But the modernism and high-class design of the new hotel promises to set it apart.
If you like the idea of living with the birds, but grazed knees and green-stained clothing aren’t your style, the Tree Hotel, which opens on Saturday, should appeal. The rooms may be situated in arborial splendour high above the ground, but they are accessed by steps or ramps, and have more in common with exclusive design hotels than Famous Five-style treehouses.
If the original tree-house was basic, the new treehouses will be anything but. Guests will even be able to let off steam in a sauna. Their more basic needs will be catered for by state-of-the-art environmentally-friendly incinerating toilets in every treehouse.
The Lindvalls argue that people get a new perspective when they stay in the forest - valuing the trees as something more than material to be cut down for industrial use. But this comes at at price - a night at the Tree Hotel costs upwards of 3,500 kronor.
James Savage (news@thelocal.se
We had a great turnout to learn about the life of Mina Anderson---thanks so much to Joy and her husband Roger for making the long trip to Amery --everyone thoroughly enjoyed the stories of the strong Swedish women who made the journey to this country by themselves to find a better life. Turn to Photo album page for all the pictures.
"Goddag, yxskaft." Translation: "Good day, axe-handles." Usually said when someone says something that is totally off topic.
| The proverb originates from a story about a deaf man who used to sit outside his house, making axe-handles. Not hearing what people said he had learnt by heart the answers to what people usually asked him/said to him. Most people passing by would simply greet him and then ask him what he was making. But one day a stranger came along and asked him for the way to town, and so the answers turned into nonsense. |
An Anders Zorn painting fetched a record price for a Swedish work when it was sold at auction in Stockholm on Thursday. Anders Zorn's "Sommarnöje" ("Summer Delight") sold for 26 million kronor ($3.35 million).
The previous record was held by August Strindberg's "Underlandet" ("Wonderland"), which went for 22 million kronor, a record that has stood since the late 1980s. The original estimate was that the painting would go for 8 million to 10 million kronor.
The painting from 1886 is a watercolour in which the setting is Dalarö, southeast of Stockholm, and the painter's wife Emma is the main character. The Zorns had just returned from their honeymoon at the time. Emma Zorn's family had long owned a summer home in Dalarö.
"It is extremely cleverly painted," newspaper Dagens Nyheter's art critic Birgitta Rubin explained. "Zorn really excels here with his watercolor techniques. He captures the movement and light in the water in an exceptional way. It is a very beautiful atmosphere in the picture - it shows that he is in love with the woman he paints."
The auction attracted a large number of bidders, including a number of foreigners. The sale took place at Stockholm's Auction House (Stockholms Auktionsverk), the world's oldest, founded in 1674. In the end, a Swedish private collector bought the painting.
According to Rubin, Thursday's Swedish record price is another sign that the art market is now once again heating up following the financial crisis.
External link: Sommarnöje (in Swedish) »
The Zorn HouseThe Zorn House (Zorngården) in Mora is the creation of Anders and Emma Zorn, built at the turn of last century. Paintings, sculptures and decorative art from around the world are boldly mixed with the traditional art of Dalarna
| Anders Zorn Anders Zorn was born in Mora on 18th February 1860. His mother was called Grudd Anna Andersdotter and came from a family of smallholders in Mora. His father was a German brewer by the name of Leonard Zorn whom his mother met whilst seasonally employed at a brewery in Uppsala. There was no question of a marriage and Zorn grew up instead with his mother and her parents in Utmeland village in the Mora district. Leonard Zorn admitted paternity but never met his son. He died in 1872.
Jubileumsåret 2010 I år är det 150 år sedan Anders och Emma Zorn föddes. Det firar Zornmuseet med en rad evenemang.
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In 1904 Zorn purchased some land on the bank of the Dalälven from his mother's brother Per. He then had a number of timber buildings moved there and gave it the name of Gopsmor. For him this became something of a refuge when public attention in Mora became too much and it came to be both a studio in the backwoods and an anglers cottage. Here he lived "in the style of his forefathers'" enjoying simple food and without the creature comforts of his Mora home Zorngården.
The contact person for questions, comments: terryjk@amerytel.net
The purpose of this site is to provide a place for klubb members and friends to catch up on news and events in our area and also to learn more about our Swedish heritage, culture, customs, language, music and art. We welcome others with similar interests to join our site and our klubb.
Larry has a new CD: It can be ordered at the website www.rockabillyhall.com/LLPhilipson.html
"NO WELCOME HOME":
A TRIBUTE TO VIET NAM VETERANS!
CD TRACK LISTING
1. No Welcome Home
2. Rose of Yesterday
3. Old Enough to Worry
4. Charlene
5. Too Blue to Cry
6. Standing in the Shadows
7. Bitter Feelings
8. A Corner in My Heart
9. Absent Minded You
10. The Old Milwaukee Road
11. Give Love a Try
12. I'm Wondering Now
13. The Old Country Store
This page keeps us up to date on the work by Carolyn Wedin to perserve the interesting history of the Trade Lake area of Wisconsin as told by a Swedish pioneer Louis J Ahlström in his book Historiska Skildringar, or Historical Sketches. .
"Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson"
If your great grand mother was Swedish she may have been among the 250,000 single women who came to America from Sweden between 1881 and 1920. Read more in a book by Joy K Lintelman, a history professor from Concordia College. The book was published in February of 2009 and was reviewed this past weekend in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "I go To America" is everything a popular history book should be--interesting, informative and lots of fun." Mary Ann Grossman
Member Anita in Denver has been sending out these special little rocks that she made to Swedish klubbs around the country --thank you Anita
The following is sent to us from our member Judy Wester from very musical relatives in Sweden. The musical story is called“Lurberget”. It’s about the hills of Hedesunda that rose from the sea when the continental glacier, that covered great parts of northern Scandinavia, was melting. You can call it “the birth of Hedesunda” i. e. when the first people arrived, thousands of years ago, how they lived and worked. As I said, we composed the music and wrote the lyrics and manuscript. A lot of clips at www.lurberget.se (up to now in Swedish). At www.youtube.com you can also look at some trailers (search for “Lurberget”;)).
With their fresh and unique take on Nordic music, the Swedish musicians Erik Ask-Upmark and Anna Rynefors - known as "Dråm" - have taken the roots music community by storm. With much charm and a big sense of humour, they perform traditional Nordic music in a captivating way that speaks to audiences everywhere. They are both "riksspelmän" (a distinction awarded to the best players of traditional music in Sweden) and have toured extensively in Europe as well as in America. The quietness of Sweden’s wide open spaces shows through in the fragile melodies of this talented duo. A wonderful flow of ear-caressing musical sounds, performed with great skill on instruments such as the harp, Nyckelharpa (Swedish keyed fiddle) and Swedish bagpipes. Dråm approaches Swedish music with respect and love, imparting a contemporary and passionate character to tradition, while maintaining the very soul of it!
The nyckelharpa is a traditional Swedish instrument that has been played, in one form or another as it evolved, for more than 600 years. At least four different versions of the nyckelharpa are still played today,an uncommon situation for most folk instruments. Also visit wwww.nyckelharpa.org
Featuring paintings and stories!
The wood carvings of Axel Petersson.
Axel Petersson Döderhultarn was born December 12, 1868 in the parish of Döderhult, Sweden,As a boy his primary interests was in whittling, and carving small figures. This activity was considered worthless by his friends and family in Sweden. His family decided the best thing for him to do as a young adult was to emigrate to the United States. Peterson did not emigrate to America, as his family had planned, and after a brief time away he moved back to help his now widowed mother in Oskarshamn, Sweden.Döderhultarn became know as one of Sweden's great artists. His work as well as photos of his work were circulated world wide. and he served as an inspiration to other woodcarvers, including Carl Johan Trygg, and H. S. "Andy" Anderson. His popularity was so great that "Döderhultarn figure" became the generic term for any small figure in the minimalist style.
Fika usually refers to the Swedish coffee break. Fika, a social institution in Sweden, is both verb and noun in Swedish and has a broad definition. Essentially, it refers to a break from one's activities in order to drink coffee or other drinks with friends, family or acquaintances. This tradition of a coffee break with a snack is central to Swedish culture, and Swedes are one of the world's top coffee consumers.
Smörgåstårta--A wonderful summer dish with layers of bread and creamy fillings along with ham and shrimp and smoked salmon spread, cucumbers and tomatoes and olives and dill and parsely and whatever else you can imagine. Find recipe on taste of Sweden page and treat yourself to something special this summer.
Johanna Maria Lind (October 6, 1820 – November 2, 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in Sweden and across Europe, and for an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. The Swedish songstress and her appearance in the US along with her relationship with Chopin keeps this page very busy. Pictures of Castle garden and Chopin. Also a video of Elizabeth Parcells as Jenny singing "und ob die Wolke sie Verhulle" the aria that made her famous as a young girl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3RMFGk7ndE
Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson in Stockholm, Sweden, the youngest of three children of Karl Alfred Gustafsson (1871–1920) and Anna Lovisa Johansson (1872–1944). The family lived in a small apartment at Blekingegatan No. 32 in Stockholm. When Gustafsson was 14 years old, her father, to whom she was extremely close, died. She was forced to leave school and go to work. From 1922 to 1924, Gustafsson studied at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. While there, she met director Mauritz Stiller. He trained her in cinema acting technique, gave her the stage name 'Greta Garbo', and cast her in a major role in the silent film Gösta Berlings Saga (The Story of Gösta Berling) in 1924, a dramatization of the famous novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf.Added on the film page are a selection from the film, the Ice scene http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LjBkDvHNY4 :/ .
Swedish folk costumes are a wonderful way to connect with your Swedish heritage.
Kulning, or herding calls, the song form is primarily used by women, as they were the ones tending the herds and flocks in the high mountain pastures.The song has a high-pitched vocal technique, i.e. a loud call using head tones, so that it can be heard or be used to communicate over long distances. It has a fascinating and haunting tone, often conveying a feeling of sadness, in large part because the lokks often include typical half-tones and quarter-tones (also known as "blue tones") found in the music of the region.
Nordic walking is defined as walking with specially designed poles. It evolved from an off-season ski-training activity known as ski walking, hill bounding or ski striding to become a way of exercising with poles year-round.
Nordic walking combines simplicity and accessibility of walking with simultaneous core and upper body conditioning similar to Nordic skiing. The result is a full-body walking workout that can burn significantly more calories without a change in perceived exertion or having to walk faster, due to the incorporation of many large core and other upper-body muscles which comprise more than 90% of the body's total muscle mass and do work against resistance with each stride.
www.nordicwalkingonline.com
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