Driving the Backroads of Björketorp, August 19, 1990

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Driving the Back Roads of Björketorp

Speaker
Doris Rinell (aka Holmquist, Brown)

Location
In a car near the village of Björketorp and environs, and driving into Göteborg, Sweden

Date
Introduction of tape give the date of 1991. However the year was probably 1990, and probably Sunday, August 19.

Recipients of Audio Letter
Doris' children: Carolynn Whitman, Carey Holmquist, Meilynn Smith, Lennart Holmquist

Language(s)
English, Swedish

Names of People Mentioned
Hellen Rinell (Mormor, Momo) Oscar Rinell (Mofa, Morfar, Dad), Roy Rinell, Annie Andersson (neighbor and friend), Gustav (friend of Roy Rinell), Johan Alfred Colldén (grandfather of Doris Rinell), Jenny (Martinsson) and husband Hans, Meilynn Holmquist, Len (Lennart) Holmquist.

Names of Places Mentioned
Sulatorp (the family cabin), Tabernaklet (baptist church in the city of Göteborg), Ventura (California), Rya (geographical area near Björketorp), Edith Rinell, Santa Paula Hospital (California), Göteborg, Landvetter, Lindberg (grocery store - which eventually went out of business), Lindome (where Johan Alfred Colldén started his furniture factory), Dalarna, Lake Siljan.

Björketorp
Björketorp is in Mark Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, and is about an hour's drive from Göteborg. The village had 467 inhabitants in 2010.

Map
Click here for a map showing location of Björketorp in relation to Lindome and Gothenburg (Göteborg).

Subjects
Driving the backroads near the town of Björketorp: church ruins, problems with Gustav (friend of Roy Rinell), auction of Roy's possessions, fields, flowers, barns, farms, stone foundations, church from 1500s, graveyard, Swedish music (audio), cows, kyrka (church), stubbor people from Björketorp, bondgård (farm), more Swedish folk music (accordion), directions to Björketorp, following a bus, heavy clouds, singing along with Swedish folk music recording, potty stop.

Digital Conversion
By Lennart Holmquist


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