by Birgitta Hjalmarson | Oct 10, 2024 | Journal
THE LESS THEY KNEW THE BETTER In 1896, when Anna was seven years old, she started school. Paulina was her teacher in the early years. A sparrow of a woman, Paulina had a thin, wrinkled neck, set off by a starched, oversized collar pinched...
by jason_admin | Oct 9, 2024 | Journal
MODERN WOMEN DON’T LIKE TO MILK Ardennes Stallion Fredrik Lundgren was a man with a firm handshake. Villagers remember him as purposeful and trustworthy, fired by new ideas in farming and economics. “Lundgren was not like the rest...
by jason_admin | Oct 8, 2024 | Journal
THE HAPPIEST MOMENT OF HIS LIFE Adolf and Beatrice Anna and her sister Ida used to take the train to Varberg. They would stand on the open platform of the last car, thrilled by the wind and the speed. Rows of haystacks receded into the...
by Birgitta Hjalmarson | Oct 7, 2024 | Journal
WHEN SWEDISH FARMERS MARCHED Farmers’ March In the years before the First World War, as tension mounted on the continent, the Swedish political parties drew their own internal battle lines. The Conservatives championed a stronger...
by Birgitta Hjalmarson | Oct 6, 2024 | Journal
THEY THAT RESIST SHALL RECEIVE TO THEMSELVES DAMNATION On the evening of October 7, 1914, long plagued by heart problems, Gottfried Bergenheim died. Fredrik Lundgren wrote the obituary in the Varberg newspaper. He wished Bergenheim...
