AMERICAN FESTIVAL  27th to 30th of JULY

Fantastic days in Kinda and Ydre during the American festival.
We give you a follow up with the lecture by Kevin Proescholdt and a gallery of photos. 
Article - PATTERNS OF POPULATION DISPERSAL AWAY FROM NEW SWEDEN,
​IOWA1845-1890 BY KEVIN PROESCHOLDT. READ HERE!


Anita G. Gorman

Anita G. Gorman grew up in New York City and now lives in northeast Ohio. Since 2014 she has had twentyseven short stories and eleven essays accepted for publication. Her one-act play, Astrid: or, My Swedish Mama, produced at Youngstown Ohio's Hopewell Theatre in March 2018, starred Anita and her daughter Ingrid.
​Nobody in Sweden can imagine all the advantages America offers sober, honest, and industrious persons; for them it is a veritable land of honey. But for those who neither can nor will work, who have left Sweden with other plans for making a living, they will without exception find a Siberia, and the sooner they leave, the better, if they want to escape the greatest want and misery. Thus you see that this country can be at the same time both a Canaan and a Siberia. Trulyit is a peculiar country!
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Letter from Peter Cassel to Apothecary Sundius, Cincinatti, 2 September 1845 (Translation by K. Proescholdt and Earl D. Check)
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The America Letters
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The American Festival Week will take place next time in July 2023 in Kisa, Sweden.

News from New Sweden - Jan Hultman 2022

Read more about "New Sweden of yesterday and today"
​http://www.fairfieldculturaldistrict.org/heritage/new-sweden.htm 
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Read an interesting article about "New Sweden, Iowa"
http://www.fairfieldculturaldistrict.org/heritage/sweden/Palimpsest.htm 
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The New Sweden Chapel
     Peter Cassel Memorium Marker,​ New Sweden, Lutheran Cemetery