Hyllingsfest -- keep it purely SWEDISH
The emphasis is still on the Swedish influence which has dominated the community and made possible its rich heritage. All citizens are encouraged to wear Swedish costumes whether their ancestry is Swedish or not. Most do. From the first, the festival has included a worship service and two days of Swedish dancing, folk songs, Swedish band music and special programs offered by the community and the College. The women of the community prepare the food in their homes for the public smorgasbord, giving the feast a very special and authentic flavor. Arts and crafts native to the area are on exhibit and for sale. Most popular, it seems, is the parade with its many floats on a Swedish accent. There are always plenty of school bands. The Lindsborg Junior High Band dresses in Swedish costumes and leads the parade with the Swedish National Anthem (behind the American Legion color-guard, of course). Swedish and American flags line the street.
Noted persons and official dignitaries are usually present representing the state, local, and Swedish governments. Sometimes a special event will take place. In 1963, for instance, the Vasa Medal was awarded to Charles Pelham Greenough, III, by Consul Folke Persson.
Through its Svensk Hyllningsfest, Lindsborg has been drawn into a deeper understanding with its past and a more meaningful relationship with modern Sweden and friends and relatives in the old "Fatherland."
The emphasis is still on the Swedish influence which has dominated the community and made possible its rich heritage. All citizens are encouraged to wear Swedish costumes whether their ancestry is Swedish or not. Most do. From the first, the festival has included a worship service and two days of Swedish dancing, folk songs, Swedish band music and special programs offered by the community and the College. The women of the community prepare the food in their homes for the public smorgasbord, giving the feast a very special and authentic flavor. Arts and crafts native to the area are on exhibit and for sale. Most popular, it seems, is the parade with its many floats on a Swedish accent. There are always plenty of school bands. The Lindsborg Junior High Band dresses in Swedish costumes and leads the parade with the Swedish National Anthem (behind the American Legion color-guard, of course). Swedish and American flags line the street.
Noted persons and official dignitaries are usually present representing the state, local, and Swedish governments. Sometimes a special event will take place. In 1963, for instance, the Vasa Medal was awarded to Charles Pelham Greenough, III, by Consul Folke Persson.
Through its Svensk Hyllningsfest, Lindsborg has been drawn into a deeper understanding with its past and a more meaningful relationship with modern Sweden and friends and relatives in the old "Fatherland."
Based on Dr. E. O. Deere's 1907 Master's Thesis "Geology of the Smoky Valley Buttes," and the 1937 "Coronado and Quivira" by Paul Jones, and other sources.
"CORONADO ET AL"
a chapter from
Mrs. Jaderborg's
1975
Why Lindsborg?
Pages 13-14
Mrs. Jaderborg's works are most interesting and educational and should be compiled into one book by a local historian of today who knows the Lindsborg background, who would provide the "needed" additional notations on her works that would highlight her scholarship and her wonderful storytelling and documentation on the people, the traditions, the art and music, the church, and the building of Lindsborg in the early and later years.
June 22nd 2022
At old mail museum
Melinda indexing
Her report text
Hi Fran I ended at noon at the museum lenora was totally falling. The box was not among the three she had ready for me. She says she definitely remembers the one with the Coronado heights thesis. She detailed the different people who have been there too now. In parenthesis who were the people that were there she detailed them what does that mean parenthesis I said comma kindly comma that you would be disappointed period , kindly, that you would be disappointed. She said that during all of the craziness of the last two years, and along with other things that were going on comma at a point she and along with other things that were going on, at a point she lost five years of material that had been input. Parentheses what does that mean input does that mean in the computer parentheses period she was assured it was . She was assured it was backed up, only to finally learn that it had not been.
I said, quote this must feel like PTSD to you quote to which she said it has been like that. She said they are beginning interviewing on Monday for another person at the museum.
I did index the three boxes anyway and can write up my notes and send them to you. Sorry for the disappointing news exclamation new paragraph exclamation
Love me sad face and heart
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she let me do it and she said there was nothing there and then she found three boxes not to be able to recognize something not to be able to recognize something that is so important so critically important to the history of Lindsborg
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"CORONADO ET AL"
a chapter from
Mrs. Jaderborg's
1975
Why Lindsborg?
Pages 13-14
Mrs. Jaderborg's works are most interesting and educational and should be compiled into one book by a local historian of today who knows the Lindsborg background, who would provide the "needed" additional notations on her works that would highlight her scholarship and her wonderful storytelling and documentation on the people, the traditions, the art and music, the church, and the building of Lindsborg in the early and later years.
June 22nd 2022
At old mail museum
Melinda indexing
Her report text
Hi Fran I ended at noon at the museum lenora was totally falling. The box was not among the three she had ready for me. She says she definitely remembers the one with the Coronado heights thesis. She detailed the different people who have been there too now. In parenthesis who were the people that were there she detailed them what does that mean parenthesis I said comma kindly comma that you would be disappointed period , kindly, that you would be disappointed. She said that during all of the craziness of the last two years, and along with other things that were going on comma at a point she and along with other things that were going on, at a point she lost five years of material that had been input. Parentheses what does that mean input does that mean in the computer parentheses period she was assured it was . She was assured it was backed up, only to finally learn that it had not been.
I said, quote this must feel like PTSD to you quote to which she said it has been like that. She said they are beginning interviewing on Monday for another person at the museum.
I did index the three boxes anyway and can write up my notes and send them to you. Sorry for the disappointing news exclamation new paragraph exclamation
Love me sad face and heart
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she let me do it and she said there was nothing there and then she found three boxes not to be able to recognize something not to be able to recognize something that is so important so critically important to the history of Lindsborg
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