Swedish Colony Midsommar, 19-21 June, 2009
Please join us for Maine Swedish Colony's 138th Midsommar Celebration. Starting Friday 19, through Sunday 21 of June, 2009. Everyone is invited to enjoy the fun and food. Follow link at left to see the calendar of events.
Visit
Places to stay and eat in the area with directions for driving to New Sweden.
Directory
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
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.
Discovery Research Folklife Report
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.
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
Site Notes
This website is a replacement for the GeoCities.com/MaineSwedishColony site. Moving this to my own server will to make it easier to update than the old site and there are no ads (other than mine) Be sure to update your bookmarks--Bill Duncan