"The Other Swedes"
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy ~
Chronicling Lindsborg Photographer Swede B.G. Gröndal Work's
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy ~
Chronicling Lindsborg Photographer Swede B.G. Gröndal Work's
It was more or less a family affair that energized this project with Bror Gustaf Gröndal's great-granddaughter Ms. Cynthia Eddy providing the greatest support to bring the vision of the beautiful book, THROUGH THE LENS OF B.G. GRONDAL: KEEPER OF HIS TIME, into a true reality in 2013. As the author, her mother, Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy (1928-2017), so clearly confirms in the first sentence of her "Acknowledgements,
"My profuse thanks goes to my daughter Cynthia Eddy, New York City,
for her talent and knowledge to design and publish this tribute to
her great-grandfather, Bror Gustaf Gröndal."
for her talent and knowledge to design and publish this tribute to
her great-grandfather, Bror Gustaf Gröndal."
However, her acknowledgements and thanks continued with other family members from the Seattle, Washington, area who contributed greatly too. The two main sources from which the body of the text originated came from B.G.'s daughter Edith Gröndal Carlson, her personal recollection writings, and also from son Dr. Bror Leonard Gröndal (a Bethany College graduate) whose material on his father is contained at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, the information of which was gathered by his granddaughter Barbara Boyd. It was her sister Margaret Gröndal Delourme, the caretaker of the Gröndal family photographs, who made them available for the book. (Also, the bulk of the Lindsborg and Smoky Valley photographs used for the book came from four families, with the Bethany College librarians providing needed college photographs.)
Ms. Cynthia Eddy followed in the footsteps of her mother graduating from Kansas University (KU) in Lawrence with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. Decades later she is a well established New Yorker as a Freelance Software Engineer and Digital, Print Art Director of her own company, EddyWorks, which published THROUGH THE LENS OF B.G. GRONDAL: KEEPER OF HIS TIME.
Her mother, Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy, first attended Bethany College before finishing at KU where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and devoted her life to her family and to teaching while acquiring a Master's Degree. She retired from Wineteer Elementary School in Wichita, Kansas, in 1990, and with her husband L. G. Eddy she returned to Lindsborg where they were members of Bethany Church. Here they lived in a lovely Swedish style home with Swedish furnishings from where she was hostess to many, including Holy Easter Week Messiah Festival soloists from the East. She was also involved in the Swedish culture events of Lindsborg, at Bethany Church where she volunteered her time and also at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery.
Mrs. Eddy's parents were Henry and Lillian Gröndal Dahlquist of Garfield, Kansas, where she graduated from Garfield High School. It was here that her grandfather Bror Gustaf Gröndal would spend the remainder of his life with his daughter Lillian, her mother, after he closed his photography studio in Lindsborg in 1945, the year that his wife Sarah Margaret Noyd died.
Ms. Cynthia Eddy followed in the footsteps of her mother graduating from Kansas University (KU) in Lawrence with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. Decades later she is a well established New Yorker as a Freelance Software Engineer and Digital, Print Art Director of her own company, EddyWorks, which published THROUGH THE LENS OF B.G. GRONDAL: KEEPER OF HIS TIME.
Her mother, Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy, first attended Bethany College before finishing at KU where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and devoted her life to her family and to teaching while acquiring a Master's Degree. She retired from Wineteer Elementary School in Wichita, Kansas, in 1990, and with her husband L. G. Eddy she returned to Lindsborg where they were members of Bethany Church. Here they lived in a lovely Swedish style home with Swedish furnishings from where she was hostess to many, including Holy Easter Week Messiah Festival soloists from the East. She was also involved in the Swedish culture events of Lindsborg, at Bethany Church where she volunteered her time and also at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery.
Mrs. Eddy's parents were Henry and Lillian Gröndal Dahlquist of Garfield, Kansas, where she graduated from Garfield High School. It was here that her grandfather Bror Gustaf Gröndal would spend the remainder of his life with his daughter Lillian, her mother, after he closed his photography studio in Lindsborg in 1945, the year that his wife Sarah Margaret Noyd died.
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The lovely book cover photograph design by Ms. Eddy shows her great-grandfather's most endearing work that resides along with other photographs in the Library of Congress. It is also included on page 104 of Mrs. Eddy's book with this caption:
Bethany Daisies
The photograph of the girls in white in the midst of the field of daisies was made in the summer of 1904. The girls were attending summer school at Bethany College to renew their teaching certificates. This work has proved to be his most endearing. It was featured with the television broadcast of Handel's Messiah and is in a collection of Lindsborg work in the Library of Congress.
Bethany Daisies
The photograph of the girls in white in the midst of the field of daisies was made in the summer of 1904. The girls were attending summer school at Bethany College to renew their teaching certificates. This work has proved to be his most endearing. It was featured with the television broadcast of Handel's Messiah and is in a collection of Lindsborg work in the Library of Congress.
- Book Cover -
SOURCES: THROUGH THE LENS OF B.G. GRONDAL: KEEPER OF HIS TIME; LinkedIn; Wichita Eagle, August 24, 2017; Salina Journal, August 19, 2017
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
