Swedish Colony Midsommar, 18-20 June, 2010
Please join us for Maine Swedish Colony's 139th Midsommar Celebration. Starting Friday 18, through Sunday 20 of June, 2010. Everyone is invited to enjoy the fun and food. Follow link at left to see the calendar of events (3/4/10 not yet up-to-date but most of the events will be the same as last year).
Visit
Places to stay and eat in the area with directions for driving to New Sweden.
Guide
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.
Yahoo Group (was called Egroup)
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 leave us a message or just see what others are talking about. All archived messages are currently available.
Genealogy
Lynn Johnson, newswedengenealogy@gmail.com, 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.
YouTube channel
Directory
(This site is not presently online. Printed information is available at the historical societies.) 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.
Discovery Research Folklife Report
(This site is not presently online. Printed information is available at the historical societies.) 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 sponsord by Maine Arts Commission and New Century Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.
Site Notes
This website is a replacement for the GeoCities.com/MaineSwedishColony site. GeoCities has been discontinued by Yahoo. Several other sites, Directory and Folklife reprort have also been taken down, I hope to republish them in here in the future. Be sure to update your bookmarks--Bill Duncan