26 Nov

The trams began to service Stockholm beginning in 1877 with small horse-drawn carriages. Then in the early 1900s they were run by the electric lines which ran throughout the city. ...

04 Nov

My sisters and brother were thrilled when, thanks to the assistance of Lars Åke Näsman at Skansen, we found the very garden where in 1944 our father proposed to our mother. Then we met a member of the Swedish royal family!...

22 Oct

The day the “Siblings in Sweden” went to Skansen we were on a mission to find the garden where our father proposed to our mother in late September 1944. I had found a tiny snapshot in their wartime photo album that read “taken in...

15 Oct

My parents spent New Year’s Eve 1944 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm. In 1898, this gilded hall was created, and it is much the same today. According to what I have read it was modeled after the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles....

01 Oct

In 1944 and 1945, while World War II was raging all around neutral Sweden, our parents Herman Allen and Hedvig Johnson often dined at the Grand Hôtel. Not only was it the finest hotel in Stockholm (one of the finest in Europe!) it was headquarters...

29 Sep

Skansen is the world’s first open air museum, a vision of what Sweden was like in centuries past. My mother wrote on the back of a photo that it was at Skansen that our father proposed to her in 1944, right at the height...

27 Sep

When my sisters, brother, and I (Siblings in Sweden) arrived on the Swedish island of Gotland our mission was to visit the crash site of our Dad's B-17 Liberty Lady....

18 Sep

The first stop for our "Siblings in Sweden" trip would be the Swedish island of Gotland where on March 6, 1944, the B-17 Liberty Lady made an emergency wheels-up landing after it was badly damaged during a bombing raid over Berlin....

16 Sep

For as long as any of us can remember, our family has talked about Sweden. It’s where, during World War II, our parents Herman and Hedvig met, fell in love, and got married. Now, we were on our way!...

29 Jul

In September, I'm going back to Sweden! My two sisters and brother will come with me to revisit Gotland and Stockholm. I'm busy mapping out everything we need to see....

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