"The Other Swedes"
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
NEW
Mr. Alf Brorson
~ Connecting Lindsborg Swedes to their "Spiritual Founder" Rev. Olsson in 2001, and to Sweden with the "Sweden Letter" since 2008
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
NEW
Mr. Alf Brorson
~ Connecting Lindsborg Swedes to their "Spiritual Founder" Rev. Olsson in 2001, and to Sweden with the "Sweden Letter" since 2008
Bill "Carlson (1930-2008) from his 2011 Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now reported in his Introduction regarding Lindsborg that, "Swedish resident Alf Brorson of Torsby, Sweden in the province of Värmland has written numerous articles about this subject since his first visit to our community in 1993. A teacher, writer, lecturer, Mr. Brorson has publicized Lindsborg by speaking to many groups in Sweden about our community, plus has had a number of articles about the Smoky Valley in the Sweden and America magazine (formerly known as the Bridge). Mr. Brorson will be making his 17th visit to Lindsborg this coming summer [2011] where he was years ago, honored by Mayor Don Anderson as an "Honorary Citizen of Lindsborg." In Swedish, his latest book is Vägen till Lindsborg (The Road to Lindsborg) in 2010, followed by An American Book.
Lindsborg News-Record, former owner and editor John Marshall from the newspaper's, Valley Voice, reported on Mr. Brorson, on April 21, 2022, in the article titled, "Foreign Correspondent." He tells us more about Mr. Brorson as Lindsborg's Foreign Correspondent due to his monthly "Sweden Letter." Mr. Marshall writes, " BRORSON – author, journalist, retired teacher – reports on the condition of life and culture in Sweden, its connection with Lindsborg and the Smoky Valley, a region deeply influenced by its rich heritage. . . BRORSON writes from his “writer's cabin" near his home in Torsby, a community among the lakes and forests of Värmland province in west-central Sweden. He has study in Canada and the United States, has traveled extensively and his visited Lindsborg off and on for 30 years. He has written books in English and Swedish, edited magazines and published articles in periodicals across Scandinavia. He started writing occasional articles for the New-Record in the late 1990s. And his monthly Sweden letter began in 2008."
". . . Over the years, he has traced the origin and strength of Swedish heritage in Kansas in America, it’s deep influence and Smoky Valley, it’s endurance in a passion for the arts, for local schools and governing, in the many ways of life in these communities . . ."
Lindsborg News-Record, former owner and editor John Marshall from the newspaper's, Valley Voice, reported on Mr. Brorson, on April 21, 2022, in the article titled, "Foreign Correspondent." He tells us more about Mr. Brorson as Lindsborg's Foreign Correspondent due to his monthly "Sweden Letter." Mr. Marshall writes, " BRORSON – author, journalist, retired teacher – reports on the condition of life and culture in Sweden, its connection with Lindsborg and the Smoky Valley, a region deeply influenced by its rich heritage. . . BRORSON writes from his “writer's cabin" near his home in Torsby, a community among the lakes and forests of Värmland province in west-central Sweden. He has study in Canada and the United States, has traveled extensively and his visited Lindsborg off and on for 30 years. He has written books in English and Swedish, edited magazines and published articles in periodicals across Scandinavia. He started writing occasional articles for the New-Record in the late 1990s. And his monthly Sweden letter began in 2008."
". . . Over the years, he has traced the origin and strength of Swedish heritage in Kansas in America, it’s deep influence and Smoky Valley, it’s endurance in a passion for the arts, for local schools and governing, in the many ways of life in these communities . . ."
Sources: User:daniel78 Torsby.jpg(wikimedia.org)
By kind permission, on December 8, 2017, Mr. Alf Brorson has granted that this book, his condensed version of his father's book, be shown in its entirety in order to share this enlightening story of the founder of Bethany Church and of Lindsborg to the community of today.
Rev. Bror Carlsson who had been a former pastor of the Church of Sweden, dedicated his 350 page manuscript, which was to be a published book, to "the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church with Gratitude and Respect."
This is a very important book to read. Mr. Brorson has done a marvouse job of condensing the orgianal manuscript of 365 pages down to 40 some.
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Alf Brorson
Honorary Citizen of Lindsborg
This is the very condensed version by Mr. Brorson of his father's, Rev. Bror Carlsson's, 350 page manuscript which was finished on November 5, 1955, with a plan for publication which, unfortunately, did not occur. However, Rev. Carlsson in 1984 was able to have his manuscript copyrighted.
It was first translated from Swedish to English by Pastor Martin Ringstrom of Lindsborg and was titled originally as Jag Sökte Icke Mitt, i.e. I Did Not Seek My Own. It is about the Augustana Lutheran Synod from 1860 to 1900, and his dear friend "in history," Swedish Värmland Pastor Olof Olsson (1841-1900). It was published as He Gave God Glory, The Story of Olof Olsson by Smoky Valley Historical Publications, A. John Pearson, Editor, in 2001 with the sponsorship of the Smoky Valley Historical Association.
Visiting often since 1993
~ "Honorary Citizen of Lindsborg"FINDING FACTS FOR ALF
Fran Cochran <fran.cochran@yahoo.com>
To:Frances Marie Cochran
Wed, May 11 at 2:37 PM
From April 21, 2022 Lynnsburg news record John Marshall reporting Valley voice title are foreign correspondent
In late March, the New Yorker magazine had a story about G.I.LLES Paris, who had returned to his native France after a seven year years as a Washington correspondent – and tuned and turned his language fluency inside out. Harris had been in America riding French for Lemonde, a French leading a leading French newspaper.
Now he was back in France, writing “the French test, “, The first column that Le Monde LEMONDE has ever published in English. The New Yorker made this a big thing – a column in English for a French newspaper.
At the same time in late March, the Lynnsburg news record published its regular and long running
“Sweden letter, “a monthly column by Alf Brorson BRORSON.
His march “letter “ came coincidentally with the headline; “writing writing in another language. “While the French LeMond celebrates its first – ever call him an English, the news record has been publishing a column from Sweden for 14 years.
In France, Paris will begin with the inns and outs of French politics…
In Lynnsburg, the news record has assumed likewise for years, but with a Swedish twist.
BRORSO – author, journalist, retired teacher – reports on the condition of life and culture in Sweden, its connection with Lynnsburg and Smoky Valley, a region deeply influenced by its rich heritage.
BRORSON rights from his “writers cabin “near his home and towards B tea OR near his home in TORCSPY,
a community among the lakes and forests of farmland province in West – Central Sweden.
He has study in Canada and the United States, has traveled extensive Lee and his visiting Lansburgh off and on for 30 years.
He has written books in English and Swedish, edited magazines and published articles and periodic calls across Scandinavia.
He start riding occasional articles for the news record in the late 1990s
, And his monthly, Sweden letter, began in 2008.
New paragraph BRORSON has reported on, among other things royal weddings, the economy and the sports culture in Sweden. Schools here have no organized sports; competitions are among “clubs “separate and apart from the schools. He has sent classic accounts of American baseball in Sweden parentheses 2015 parentheses and his letter in 2017 about Swedish professional print parentheses American parentheses football and the KARLSBORG Crusaders, is a classic.
There have been letters about the metric system in Sweden and Europe “parentheses 2016 parentheses, and history of the smorgasbord parentheses 2012 parentheses. He has told the difference between the celebration of Midsummer day here parentheses elaborate parentheses and there not so much parentheses not so much parentheses on both side of not so much.
His articles have covered Swedish influence in the ways of the kitchen, the artist studio, the spruced look of a town, it’s parks and lawns.
His articles on the Swedish tax rate and Swedish childcare stand out for me, a look at how a government resolves tricky issues.
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Four years ago, BRORSON, reported cost and benefits of Sweden Sweden’s 54% 54.5% income tax. The Swedish standard of living is high he said a high income tax and high cost of living. The money goes for education, national health care, social welfare and services, infrastructure, police, the courts and the national defense and national defense, among others.
Given a standard work week of 40 hours he reported, sweets have an average monthly after tax income of $3780.
Benefits include healthcare and medical services, and 18 month maternity or paternity leave, a $120 per month child allowance parentheses becoming a study allowance at age 16 parentheses, sick benefits and subsidies, paid vacations, unemployed unemployment benefits and job or tanning programs. Public education including university is free. Five or six weeks paid annual vacations are common.
In his letter capitalized letter on children in 2011, Ron son be our ORSON said parents pay a fee based on income and the number of children. For a child in kindergarten, maximum $194 a month parentheses 3% of income parentheses and for one child; for two, $129 per child.
Against the fees, Sweden provided families a child allowance, exempt from tax and paid until age 16 when the benefit becomes a study allowance; for one child $162 monthly; per families with several children an extra $23 for a second child, $93 for three and extra $278 for four and so on. The allowance for a family with six children including $633 extra in parentheses including parentheses parentheses including in parentheses was 1602 a month at the time BRORSON‘S report.
During the long haul of Covid, BRORSON sent extra monthly reports on the pandemic in Sweden in Europe.
". . . Over the years, he has trace the origin and strength of Swedish heritage in Kansas in America, it’s deep influence and Smoky Valley, it’s endurance in a passion for the arts, for local schools and governing, in the many ways of life in these communities . . ."
Once a teacher always a teacher. Lamond LECapital MONDE now has GILLES Paris, his NASCENT “French test. “We have had Alf BRORSON and a “Sweden letter “for years
Sent from my iPhone
~ "Honorary Citizen of Lindsborg"FINDING FACTS FOR ALF
Fran Cochran <fran.cochran@yahoo.com>
To:Frances Marie Cochran
Wed, May 11 at 2:37 PM
From April 21, 2022 Lynnsburg news record John Marshall reporting Valley voice title are foreign correspondent
In late March, the New Yorker magazine had a story about G.I.LLES Paris, who had returned to his native France after a seven year years as a Washington correspondent – and tuned and turned his language fluency inside out. Harris had been in America riding French for Lemonde, a French leading a leading French newspaper.
Now he was back in France, writing “the French test, “, The first column that Le Monde LEMONDE has ever published in English. The New Yorker made this a big thing – a column in English for a French newspaper.
At the same time in late March, the Lynnsburg news record published its regular and long running
“Sweden letter, “a monthly column by Alf Brorson BRORSON.
His march “letter “ came coincidentally with the headline; “writing writing in another language. “While the French LeMond celebrates its first – ever call him an English, the news record has been publishing a column from Sweden for 14 years.
In France, Paris will begin with the inns and outs of French politics…
In Lynnsburg, the news record has assumed likewise for years, but with a Swedish twist.
BRORSO – author, journalist, retired teacher – reports on the condition of life and culture in Sweden, its connection with Lynnsburg and Smoky Valley, a region deeply influenced by its rich heritage.
BRORSON rights from his “writers cabin “near his home and towards B tea OR near his home in TORCSPY,
a community among the lakes and forests of farmland province in West – Central Sweden.
He has study in Canada and the United States, has traveled extensive Lee and his visiting Lansburgh off and on for 30 years.
He has written books in English and Swedish, edited magazines and published articles and periodic calls across Scandinavia.
He start riding occasional articles for the news record in the late 1990s
, And his monthly, Sweden letter, began in 2008.
New paragraph BRORSON has reported on, among other things royal weddings, the economy and the sports culture in Sweden. Schools here have no organized sports; competitions are among “clubs “separate and apart from the schools. He has sent classic accounts of American baseball in Sweden parentheses 2015 parentheses and his letter in 2017 about Swedish professional print parentheses American parentheses football and the KARLSBORG Crusaders, is a classic.
There have been letters about the metric system in Sweden and Europe “parentheses 2016 parentheses, and history of the smorgasbord parentheses 2012 parentheses. He has told the difference between the celebration of Midsummer day here parentheses elaborate parentheses and there not so much parentheses not so much parentheses on both side of not so much.
His articles have covered Swedish influence in the ways of the kitchen, the artist studio, the spruced look of a town, it’s parks and lawns.
His articles on the Swedish tax rate and Swedish childcare stand out for me, a look at how a government resolves tricky issues.
====
Four years ago, BRORSON, reported cost and benefits of Sweden Sweden’s 54% 54.5% income tax. The Swedish standard of living is high he said a high income tax and high cost of living. The money goes for education, national health care, social welfare and services, infrastructure, police, the courts and the national defense and national defense, among others.
Given a standard work week of 40 hours he reported, sweets have an average monthly after tax income of $3780.
Benefits include healthcare and medical services, and 18 month maternity or paternity leave, a $120 per month child allowance parentheses becoming a study allowance at age 16 parentheses, sick benefits and subsidies, paid vacations, unemployed unemployment benefits and job or tanning programs. Public education including university is free. Five or six weeks paid annual vacations are common.
In his letter capitalized letter on children in 2011, Ron son be our ORSON said parents pay a fee based on income and the number of children. For a child in kindergarten, maximum $194 a month parentheses 3% of income parentheses and for one child; for two, $129 per child.
Against the fees, Sweden provided families a child allowance, exempt from tax and paid until age 16 when the benefit becomes a study allowance; for one child $162 monthly; per families with several children an extra $23 for a second child, $93 for three and extra $278 for four and so on. The allowance for a family with six children including $633 extra in parentheses including parentheses parentheses including in parentheses was 1602 a month at the time BRORSON‘S report.
During the long haul of Covid, BRORSON sent extra monthly reports on the pandemic in Sweden in Europe.
". . . Over the years, he has trace the origin and strength of Swedish heritage in Kansas in America, it’s deep influence and Smoky Valley, it’s endurance in a passion for the arts, for local schools and governing, in the many ways of life in these communities . . ."
Once a teacher always a teacher. Lamond LECapital MONDE now has GILLES Paris, his NASCENT “French test. “We have had Alf BRORSON and a “Sweden letter “for years
Sent from my iPhone
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
~ Let Us Remember Them ~
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
