Stories

Stories from Lapptäcke Volumes I and II

• Download this selection of stories from the first 50 years of the Swedish emigrant colony that was founded in 1870 in New Sweden, Maine. Stories were collected by Marie Malmquist, a later emigrant to the colony, and published in Swedish in 1928 and 1929.

• Download a guided tour of the New Sweden Cemetery, including a map of the cemetery, marks for burial sites that could be connected back to the stories from Lapptäcke, and a summary of each of these stories.

The Kapitoleum, New Sweden, ca. 1930, has its own story in Lapptäcke I. From New Sweden Historical Society, educational use permitted, via Maine Memory Network. Colorized by DeepAI.

Tipspromenad

Tipspromenad (also called tipsrunda or poängpromenad) is a competition where one walks a predetermined path at their own pace in order to answer visibly placed questions (usually twelve in number) equipped with an answer sheet and a pen(cil). For each question, there are three answer choices marked with “1”, “X” and “2”. On the answer sheet, which consists of a table with three empty cells for each question (“1”, “X”, “2”), the participant answers each question by marking the answer choice that they believe or know to be correct. The organizer or some other non-competing person counts the total correct responses for each participant. The person with the most correct answers wins. Sometimes the competition concludes with a knock-out or sudden-death question, a pure guessing question without answer choices, in order to declare a single winner when two or more participants have the same number of correct responses.

Translated from the Swedish Wikipedia article “Tipspromenad”

• Download a set of twelve questions with their answer choices.

• Here's an answer key for those twelve questions (spoiler alert!), along with some additional information about the correct (and incorrect) responses.

Sample answer sheet for a Tipspromenad.