Sweden

I’ve got this organized into different sections, so scroll down to find: about town (Lund); campus radio (3 short audio files I made); countryside in Skåne; University guest house; neighborhood around guest house; Kyrkhult, Blekinge (Grandpa Holmquist story); Stockholm; central Sweden; Malmö; Ystad; the island Ven; and the famous church at Dalby.

Lund

old cathedral church

In this cathedral, which was consecrated in 1045, there is an astronomical clock built in 1380! Here’s a foto of that clock and a video clip of it performing (which it does every day at 12:00pm and 3:00pm).

below is the video clip – 0’57”

to read about the clock, go to this wikipedia.org article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horologium_mirabile_Lundense

town band (freezing musicians)

cool old building

shops

Stortorget (main square)

joesworld.us goes to CAMPUS RADIO!

Reports prepared for Ed Page’s English-language show

University of Lund – Sweden

These reports were made for airing in the days just before the U.S. invasion of Irag in 2003.

The North Dakota Report

The War Pie Report

Hjalmer and Trygve: phone conversation about the Happy Rights Mvt.

The Countryside in Skåne

Skåne is pronounced ‘skona’ like kona coffee but better

windmill near Helsingborg

Country house in Småland (not Skåne)

Looking down on Mölle from the lighthouse

not Skåne

From the Mölle Peninsula

Mölle Peninsula

Landskrona

Some friends have a country house from around 1840 with thatched roof.

house near Fågeltofta

they like the wood cook stove

University of Lund’s Guest House

(where we lived in 2003 and 2017)

Finngatan 6

entryway

living room

communal kitchen

dining room

salon

Houses in the Guest House Neighborhood

joesworld.us goes to Kyrkhult, Blekinge

Kyrkhult is a town located in Blekinge county, Sweden. This is the town from which Alfred Carl Holmquist (Joe’s paternal grandfather) emigrated as a 7-year-old in 1885 with other members of his family. Aunt Ruth Madson interviewed A.C. in 1967, and it is this text that lead Joe to Blekinge. A link to that interview with A.C.Holmquist can be found at the end of this section. The text mentioned the town name, general information about the location of the farm where they lived, and location of the bakery where A.C.’s father worked. The area around Kyrkhult looks like Brainerd, Minnesota. Back in the 19th century, the area would have been mostly cleared for grazing and planting.

Announcements for Pingst (Pentecost)

public beach

boathouse

the bakery

a_c_holmquist_bio copy

Stockholm in Summer

preserved old houses from yesteryear

inner harbor in winter

this was around 2:30 pm – magic light!

Central Sweden

old bell tower

Götta Canal

In the mid-19th C. the Swedes were tired of pirates preying on their shipping lanes, so they made a canal running east-west to end the problem. Cycling along the canal is fun – pretty and no hills!