Last week we also went to the Swedish-American Museum. We spent an hour in the children's section, enacting the journey of Swedish immigrants from their stuga (hut) in Sweden, to their stuga in Minnesota. Ja!
By the early 20th century, some 1 million Swedes had immigrated to the US pushed by terrible droughts and poverty, and 1 out of 5 were living in Chicago, and the majority of those in Andersonville. Ja!
I think Georgie must have been the first Swedish citizen, Chicago-born, African-American, to honour the Swedish-American Museum of Chicago, possibly even the whole of Andersonville. I'm sure her Swedish ancestors couldn't have imagined it. Ja! Ja!
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