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MOVING FORWARD
"Vägen framåt!"
Lindsborg, Bethany College and the Smoky Valley People
Founding Anniversaries
2031, 2032, 2038
"Vägen framåt!"
Lindsborg, Bethany College and the Smoky Valley People
Founding Anniversaries
2031, 2032, 2038
Moving forward with our Swedish heritage and history secure we can look to the future as confident Swedish Americans who have lived in Lindsborg all of our lives or just for a while or who are students, professors, alumni and friends of Bethany College, when we especially see on the horizon the workings of two exciting and unique celebrations for this community, the 150th founding anniversaries of Bethany College in 2031 and of the Messiah performances in 2032, seven and eight years from now. 6 years later, in 2038, will be the Swedish American nationwide event celebrating the 400th founding year of New Sweden. Lindsborg and her Smoky Valley Swedish neighbors and Bethany College participated fully in the 300th founding anniversary in 1938, and there is little doubt that these Swedes of the Smoky Valley will be doing the same for the 400th founding of New Sweden.
("Where is New Sweden?" - you may wonder. It is an area of land located in the lower reaches of the Delaware River that would include portions of the States of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Sweden claimed this land as her own in 1638 when Swedish ships landed on the Delaware shore.)
Concerning the charge to move forward, here we read the last words from the Swedish American Kansan historian, author and Bethany College's fourth president, Dr. Emory K. Lindquist from his 1975 book, Bethany in Kansas: the history of a college, that lead to positive insights, direction and inspiration:
"Legend has it that when Indians long ago viewed the Smoky Valley from the range of hills [Coronado Heights] northwest of Lindsborg and saw the mystic haze on spring and autumn days, they believed that the valley was endowed with some unusual quality. Later, the Swedish residents described not the legendary but the real when they wrote to relatives and friends in the homeland that America and this area was indeed “framtidslandet,” “the land of the future.” Legend and history, although so different, may join to describe and inspire. There is much inspiration in Bethany’s history and there is great reason for confidence in the college’s future.
"The founders often used the familiar Swedish word, “Framåt!” “Forward!” to express their belief about the College in the world of tomorrow. This imperative, “Forward!” is still valid. Faith in God and in the Bethany idea will enable succeeding generations to write additional glorious chapters in Bethany’s history."
With this imperative of “Framåt!” “Forward!”-- it is imperative to provide user friendly start-off accessible topics for Smoky Valley students, teachers, professors and scholars in navigating through Swedes: TheWayTheyWere. Therefore, the Swedish American Smoky Valley Studies section and its subsection are being constructed which begin HERE.
("Where is New Sweden?" - you may wonder. It is an area of land located in the lower reaches of the Delaware River that would include portions of the States of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Sweden claimed this land as her own in 1638 when Swedish ships landed on the Delaware shore.)
Concerning the charge to move forward, here we read the last words from the Swedish American Kansan historian, author and Bethany College's fourth president, Dr. Emory K. Lindquist from his 1975 book, Bethany in Kansas: the history of a college, that lead to positive insights, direction and inspiration:
"Legend has it that when Indians long ago viewed the Smoky Valley from the range of hills [Coronado Heights] northwest of Lindsborg and saw the mystic haze on spring and autumn days, they believed that the valley was endowed with some unusual quality. Later, the Swedish residents described not the legendary but the real when they wrote to relatives and friends in the homeland that America and this area was indeed “framtidslandet,” “the land of the future.” Legend and history, although so different, may join to describe and inspire. There is much inspiration in Bethany’s history and there is great reason for confidence in the college’s future.
"The founders often used the familiar Swedish word, “Framåt!” “Forward!” to express their belief about the College in the world of tomorrow. This imperative, “Forward!” is still valid. Faith in God and in the Bethany idea will enable succeeding generations to write additional glorious chapters in Bethany’s history."
With this imperative of “Framåt!” “Forward!”-- it is imperative to provide user friendly start-off accessible topics for Smoky Valley students, teachers, professors and scholars in navigating through Swedes: TheWayTheyWere. Therefore, the Swedish American Smoky Valley Studies section and its subsection are being constructed which begin HERE.
Vägen framåt, med lyckönskningar till ALLA,
Moving forward, with good wishes to ALL,
Fran Cochran
September 12, 2024
Go to CONTACTS, for more information.
Moving forward, with good wishes to ALL,
Fran Cochran
September 12, 2024
Go to CONTACTS, for more information.
Sveadal, CA, Midsummer 2018
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