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So far away in the world : stories from the Swedish Twin Cities
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- Creator
- Anne Gillespie Lewis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Minneapolis, MN : Nodin Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- 175 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780931714948, 093171494X
- OCLC
- ocm50644103
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168) and indexes.
- ch. 1. Just another Swede town -- I think I'm Sweden -- Grace Blomquist Anderson -- Charlotte Lindquist Hansen -- Phyllis Johnson Elfstrom -- ch. 2. So far away in the world -- Bertha Brunius -- Albin E. Johnson -- John P. Wallberg -- ch. 3. The new newcomers -- Ewa and Anders Rydåker -- Mariann Tiblin -- Margareta Jern Beyer and Bill Beyer -- ch. 4. Swedes at work -- Annie Robertson -- Annie the cook, Lizzie the nursemaid and thousands of others -- Axel Ohman -- Victor Fridlund -- Axel Johnson -- ch. 5. Swedes at play -- Saturday night fever Swedish style -- Cliff Brunzell -- The life and times of the Corona Band -- Lorraine Wallberg McGrath -- Don Carlson -- ch. 6. Body and soul -- Audrey Grann Johnson -- Mildred Soderholm Grann -- A church-going people -- Eric Norelius -- William Hyllengren -- Ten little Youngdahls and how they grew -- Mount Olivet -- ch. 7. The next generations -- Renee Weberg Gillespie -- Gretchen Carlson -- Barbara Flanagan Sanford -- Wendell Anderson -- ch. 8. For a Swedish accent -- Nu är det jul igen -- great Swedish sausage war -- Ingebretsens' -- American Swedish Institute -- Swan J. Turnblad -- Bruce Karstadt
Subjects
- Swedish Americans -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Biography.
- Swedish Americans -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Social life and customs.
- Swedish Americans -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Biography.
- Swedish Americans -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul -- Social life and customs.
- Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Biography.
- Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Social life and customs.
- Saint Paul (Minn.) -- Biography.
- Saint Paul (Minn.) -- Social life and customs.