{"id":1260,"date":"2017-07-26T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historicandrewpetersonfarmstead.wordpress.com\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2019-02-16T21:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T03:50:34","slug":"carver-county-fair-volunteers-and-delsbo-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carvercountyhistoricalsociety.org\/wpcchs\/andrew-peterson-farmstead\/carver-county-fair-volunteers-and-delsbo-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Carver County Fair Volunteers and Delsbo, Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

First business.\u00a0 We are looking for volunteers to man our tent located at the granary. The fair is on between August 9th and the 13th.\u00a0 In exchange for two hours of your time, you will receive a ticket to the fair! Two people per slot, so bring a friend. To sign up for a time slot click on the below link.\u00a0 It will take you to a spread sheet where you can choose a time period.\u00a0 Please leave enough information for us to reach you to get you your ticket.\u00a0 Or you can call us at 952-442-4234.<\/p>\n

Carver County Historical fair signup sheet<\/a><\/p>\n

The Historic Structures Report for the Peterson Farmstead is to be submitted to us by July 31.\u00a0 Once it is approved, it will be posted here for everyone to review.\u00a0 Based on this we will be able to decide how much we will need to fund raise over the next 3 years.<\/p>\n

We have a new tenant in the Peterson house.\u00a0 Joel and his wife Taylor moved in the first of July.\u00a0 Joel is a carpenter by trade, which will help us immensely.\u00a0 For reduced rent he will be helping us with construction projects like making a handicapped ramp for the north barn, step railing for the house, benches, and a variety of other things.\u00a0 We are very lucky to have the two of them.<\/p>\n

Now back to Delsbo and Sweden<\/strong><\/p>\n

The American Swedish Institute has asked me to speak about my trip on November 8th at 1 PM.\u00a0 The location with be at ASI. Everyone is welcome.<\/p>\n

The trip to Sweden was one that has taken me a while to digest.\u00a0 It really was a series of once in a life time trips.\u00a0 The people I met and places I visited were wonderful beyond words.<\/p>\n

My visit to Delsbo was initiated by the newspaper article written by Lars S\u00f6nnergren noting my visit and the connection between Andrew Peterson and Moberg’s Emigrant books.\u00a0 The comparison ignited the people near Delsbo, as they believed that Moberg’s Karl Oskar was a real person who lived near Delsbo.\u00a0 The reasoning was that Lindstr\u00f6m Minnesota was founded by a man from the area of Delsbo, and the location of Emigrant books were in Lindstr\u00f6m. Seb Bertilsson from Delsbo contacted me initially to dispute our claim that Moberg used Peterson diaries as a source for The Emigrants.\u00a0 <\/em>He invited me to visit him and the area, so they could show me that I was wrong.\u00a0 At that point, I should have just back away and let it go.\u00a0 But, as you probably know, I am not one to ignore a question.\u00a0 Seb and I had many pleasant communications prior to my trip and I accepted his offer to visit. Our position has always been that there were many sources used by Moberg for his books, and that Karl Oskar is fictional.<\/p>\n

From Uppsala, I drove about two hours to the northwest.\u00a0 I met Seb at his mothers house.\u00a0 From there, I followed him farther north to an area near Hassela. The roads from this point became gravel, then dirt, and we finally turned down a very small driveway\/road and arrived at my first open air museum.\u00a0 After parking, Seb took me into the first building where they had lunch prepared.\u00a0 Sitting down to eat, I was immediately bombarded with Swedish genealogists showing me how Karl Oskar was a real person from the area and how this man was the founder of Lindstr\u00f6m. Due to language and unexpected barrage, it took me a while to understand what they were telling me.\u00a0 I would like to note here, that the below picture on the left, is my favorite photo from the whole trip.<\/p>\n