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Originally from Kent, England, Adrienne Cook has been running her shop, Så gott som nytt (“As good as new”) for 26 years. She also accepts donations in children’s clothes, books, toys, shoes, and more which are driven by truck every few months to the small struggling town of Saldus in Latvia.
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It feels like we’ve had the shortest autumn ever. The leaves are almost gone, and that inevitable winter chill is now filling the air.
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Invited by my friend Gunhild, I headed over to the Lidingö Museum where Martin Ciszuk, a Scandinavian textile historian and lecturer from the University of Borås was presenting a vibrant new collaborative book, Scandinavian Folklore (photographed by Laila Durán) to a local group of textile enthusiasts called Lidingö Trådgille. Everyone was invited to wear their folkdräkt, or just dräkt (traditional attire from a certain place) to the meetup.
From left to right: Kerstin is wearing dräkt from Rättvik, , Ulla #1 is wearing dräkt from Bohuslän, Martin is wearing sample dräkt from Närke, Elisabeth is wearing dräkt from Vingåker, Ulla #2 is wearing dräkt from Lidingö, and my friend Gunhild who is originally from Estonia is wearing dräkt from “Södra Estland” – Southern Estonia.
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In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan 27, a light procession was held in memory of Raoul Wallenberg on the island of Lidingö (on which he was born). The procession went from the stadshus (city hall) to the city’s local park where a monument dedicated to Wallenberg is located.
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat whose courageous efforts during the Holocaust saved tens of thousands of Jews. Speeches were given by EU minister Birgitta Ohlsson and Lidingö’s commune chairman Paul Lindquist, as well as the US Ambassador to Sweden, Mark Brzezinski (last picture).
You can read more about Raoul Wallenberg’s life and legacy here.
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In preparation for Raoul Wallenberg Day tomorrow (celebrating one of Sweden’s true heros), I swung by an exhibit at Lidingö stadshus chronicling his life and impact on Swedish society. Will be sharing more about him in an upcoming post.
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