August 7
This week end, Vaxjo celebrated the Swedish American days, Karl Oskar Dagarna
Karl Oskar Nilsson and his wife, Kristina, the main characters in the Vilhem Moberg novel, The Emigrants, represent the people who emigrated from Sweden to the USA in search of a better life in the middle of the 18th century
You will find lots of information here:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vmoberg.htm
http://www.duvemala.com/eng/
http://www.swemi.nu/eng/
More pictures
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A comment on this picture: She was not posing for me, but dancing:-)