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Please join us for Maine's Historic Swedish
Colony's 137th Traditional Swedish Midsommar Celebration. Starting Friday 20, through Sunday 22 of June, 2008. Everyone is invited to enjoy the fun and
food put on by our communities. Midsommar Calendar. Download a printable pdf version of our Midsommer brochure (it's a big file).
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Places
to stay and eat in the area with directions for driving to New Sweden.
Maine's Swedish
Colony Cultural Directory. People who have a connection to
our area and what they make or do for recreational, cultural, historic,
folk, and arts activities. Go directly to contents: Person
Index | Category
Index
History, Map and
Tourguide, An online version of the 2001 booklet written by
Richard Hede. The Map page
has a link to a big Colony map.
Report
On Discovery Research Fieldwork in the Swedish Colony by
folklorist Matthew Shippee. This report is part of the research for the
Cultural Directory survey.
An
email group creating public conversations about the wide range of
recreational, cultural, historic, folk, and arts activities of the
community. Please check it out if you'd like to contribute; or just see
what others are talking about. All archived messages are currently
available. As
an incentive to join, Jean and Bill have loaded some
photos from Midsommar, 2005.
Links
Links of interest.
Local and Swedish.
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Alwin Espling gathers flowers for
Midsommar
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Genealogy
Jean
Buzzell Duncan is gathering genealogy on the First
Settlers.
Lynn Johnson would love to help find your family connections to Sweden. Lynn is chair of the New Sweden Historical Genealogy committee and is collecting and sharing data on Swedish immigrants who came to Aroostook. FMI: Lynn Johnson,
Guestbook
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Guestbook We are looking for comments. What can
we do to make this site more useful? It's best not to give out personal
information.
Guestbook
Archive up to 3/9/05
Guestbook
Archive up to 7/7/03
Guestbook
Archive up to 5/25/02
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Get involved. Join one of the
Historical Societies of Maine's Historic Swedish Colony.
Maine's Swedish Colony
Incorporated
PO Box 50
New Sweden, ME 04762
New Sweden Historical Society
PO Box 33
New Sweden, Maine
04762
Stockholm Historical Society
280 Main Street
Stockholm, ME 04783
Woodland Historical Society
1149 New Sweden Rd.
Woodland, ME 04736
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| Traditional
Swedish Midsommar Celebration, The
Little Folk dancers perform the near the W. W. Thomas Memorial band
shell in New Sweden, June 2001 |
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association with our web host, Geocities.com. Site comments and
questions: email
the official, unofficial web guys: John Hede, jhede@mfx.net and Bill
Duncan, duncan@ainop.com
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1/13/06 9:19
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Lighting the Christmas tree at
the Legion hall is one of the kickoff evetnts for Stockholmn's 125th
Anniversary.
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