WHY JADERBORG WROTE
Thus, besides being a homemaker, it seemed that her other "calling" was to research and gather local history to write about, especially when, from a teacher's perspective like that of Dr. Lindquist who majored in history and was a professor at Bethany, she saw the need for educating the local children on their history.
On pages 129 to 130 of "Two Reprints, the piece on "Selma Lind" and Lindsborg:" She explains this so wittingly well, to lay the foundatio and resoning for writing the articles in the Lindsborg New-Record, most of which would be compiled in her 5 little books.
"Creating "Selma Lind" was easy, as described in the forward of the first of her five little books put together for Lindsborg's biennial Swedish festivals (the Svensk Hyllningsfest):
[Eric's]big sister interrupted me:
"Olof Olsson, who's that?"
Pastor Olof Olsson--you know!"
"Never heard the name."
Incredible! This is Lindsborg -- Olof Olsson was the first Swedish pioneer pastor who gave Lindsborg its first breath of life--its first song, its first church, its first school, its first council, its first cultural development.
I probed further. For all the pioneer celebrations, family discussions, books by local authors, Sunday School lessons, bearded portraits and lithographs--for all of that, the younger generation seemed to be woefully ignorant about its heritage.
Therefore, on December 2, 1962, a newspaper series was begun. If one young citizen knew so little about the past events of Lindsborg, surely there were others. I would write a few informative articles and let the seeds fall where they would.
As I presented my first copy at the Lindsborg News-Record, my hand hesitated in midair. Suddenly it seemed more salutary to use a pseudonym. With a few solid strokes of the pen, the original byline was obliterated
and "Selma Lind" was born.
Selma Lind is a combination of voices out of the past and out of the present. I merely put a pen in her hand.
--Elizabeth Jaderborg
Therefore, she set off to capture and share all that she could about Lindsborg as it was so important for the children of "Little Sweden" to have a collection of stories covering the earliest Swedes and events as well as those current events and the Swedish Americans of those times, which would become tomorrow's histories.
Between December 12, 1962, and August 22, 1969, she submitted more than 350 articles to the Lindsborg News-Record. Through the years, these articles would become vignettes compiled into "five little books"-- that is how Mrs. Jaderborg described her books. These "5 little books" of soft binding are irreplaceable, all important and historical. They contain incredible pieces of information that must be preserved for posterity, they are just too important to Lindsborg to be forgotten. Swedish American scholars would certainly see the need to protect them and to read them in order to get an up close and personal history on Mrs. Jaderborg's Lindsborg's history. I have named the collection of her little books
"The Elizabeth Jaderborg Lindsborg Kansas Smoky Valley Anthology."
On pages 129 to 130 of "Two Reprints, the piece on "Selma Lind" and Lindsborg:" She explains this so wittingly well, to lay the foundatio and resoning for writing the articles in the Lindsborg New-Record, most of which would be compiled in her 5 little books.
"Creating "Selma Lind" was easy, as described in the forward of the first of her five little books put together for Lindsborg's biennial Swedish festivals (the Svensk Hyllningsfest):
[Eric's]big sister interrupted me:
"Olof Olsson, who's that?"
Pastor Olof Olsson--you know!"
"Never heard the name."
Incredible! This is Lindsborg -- Olof Olsson was the first Swedish pioneer pastor who gave Lindsborg its first breath of life--its first song, its first church, its first school, its first council, its first cultural development.
I probed further. For all the pioneer celebrations, family discussions, books by local authors, Sunday School lessons, bearded portraits and lithographs--for all of that, the younger generation seemed to be woefully ignorant about its heritage.
Therefore, on December 2, 1962, a newspaper series was begun. If one young citizen knew so little about the past events of Lindsborg, surely there were others. I would write a few informative articles and let the seeds fall where they would.
As I presented my first copy at the Lindsborg News-Record, my hand hesitated in midair. Suddenly it seemed more salutary to use a pseudonym. With a few solid strokes of the pen, the original byline was obliterated
and "Selma Lind" was born.
Selma Lind is a combination of voices out of the past and out of the present. I merely put a pen in her hand.
--Elizabeth Jaderborg
Therefore, she set off to capture and share all that she could about Lindsborg as it was so important for the children of "Little Sweden" to have a collection of stories covering the earliest Swedes and events as well as those current events and the Swedish Americans of those times, which would become tomorrow's histories.
Between December 12, 1962, and August 22, 1969, she submitted more than 350 articles to the Lindsborg News-Record. Through the years, these articles would become vignettes compiled into "five little books"-- that is how Mrs. Jaderborg described her books. These "5 little books" of soft binding are irreplaceable, all important and historical. They contain incredible pieces of information that must be preserved for posterity, they are just too important to Lindsborg to be forgotten. Swedish American scholars would certainly see the need to protect them and to read them in order to get an up close and personal history on Mrs. Jaderborg's Lindsborg's history. I have named the collection of her little books
"The Elizabeth Jaderborg Lindsborg Kansas Smoky Valley Anthology."