home. Every large farm had to support a soldier, and Ulrika's father, Peter Grip, was the dragon for many farms. But he was also fattig, so poor that his family received assistance from the community chest.
Like many immigrant Swedes, many of my family members turned their backs
on the Lutheran Church (above), and turned to Swedish Methodist and Baptist churches when they came to the U.S. These churches were centers for a strong interest among immigrant women, temperance. Skansen's
Temperance Hall (far left) is large, representative of the many women who took part in one of the few political activities dominated by women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It's not as lush as Al Johnson's, but turf roofs were common on hard-scrabble nineteenth-century Swedish farms, where the vast majority were poor. Can you guess what the cones are?
