Welcome to The Story Stugan!

Here we try to reach out to a culture that is all but gone: the lifeways that blossomed in the 19th-century Swedish countryside.

It is a culture (or collection of cultures) that we find compelling; and while certainly not dead and gone, it has largely been brushed aside by forces like centralization and industrialization. Now it can be quite hard to access, especially for us in the English-speaking world. If you find this culture compelling too, then regardless of your heritage, we hope you will join us to learn about and participate in Old Rural Sweden's music, food, stories, and traditions and thereby bring a bit more life to that culture, and that culture to your life.

A path to a simple stuga in Ryssby, photographer unknown. From Kalmar läns museum, public domain, via Digitalt Museum. Colorized by DeepAI.