Jamestown Swedes

Lovisa Petersdotter and Samuel Sjöstrand. 1   At this summer's Scandinavian Folk Festival in Jamestown, New York, Tina Scott and I prese...

Olof Wilhelm Stadin and Lars Gustaf Sellstedt    Photograph by Zach 2024 Five years ago, in my article  Jamestown during the Civil War: Oil,...

An important part of this project has been reviewing genealogical research by others tracing their Swedish immigrants.  We all want to make ...

Vilhelm Moberg 1   and Astrid Lindgren 2  are the two most influential authors who have shaped our conception of Swedishness.  As Swedish Am...

The chance to own land seems to have been the largest factor behind the decision of our first settlers to come to our region.  An earlier  b...