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Friday, July 30, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: Uppsala, June 1970

The first photos are from early June or even May, when Hazel was still visiting us. We have our spring jackets on.

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Hazel pushing Eric on the swingset in front of our apartment building


1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Hazel and Eric at play


1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Hazel and Eric


1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel and Andrew with neighbors in the yard of our apartment building


1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric on the swingset of our apartment building yard


1970 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Newlin and Eric with neighborhood friends

Arnie could not sleep in the morning after the sun rose, so he frequently arose at 3:00a in our part of Sweden, where the sun dipped below the horizon for just a few hours in the summer. Restless, he would go for long walks in the city and take photos of the empty town at the early hours:

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral (from 1435) viewed from Castle Hill

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral viewed from our rooftop

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
another rooftop view of Uppsala Cathedral

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River viewed from our rooftop

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral viewed from our apartment building rooftop

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River with our apartment building (3 Götgatan); we lived on the fourth floor

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Our apartment building at 3 Götgatan, Uppsala

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel and Andrew biking in Uppsala

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
The University of Uppsala Main Building (with Erik Gustaf Geijer Statue)

This is one of the bells in the Cathedral. It may be the one called Thornantaken from Toruń, Poland, as war booty in 1703 by Swedish forces of King Carl XII (Charles XII) during the Great Northern War (1700–1721)

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Thornan Bell, Uppsala Cathedral

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala University's Main Building viewed from a Cathedral tower

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
The River Fyris (Fyrisån); out apartment building is one of the white buildings in the upper left, near the bridge

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Castle (from the mid Sixteenth Century, rebuilt after a 1702 fire)

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric on a cannon at Uppsala Castle

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Castle

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Gunilla bell tower (Queen Consort Gunilla donated Gunilla Bell to the castle chapel in 1588. In 1702  the original tower was destroyed by fire, so the bell was recast in 1759 and moved to this wooden bell tower)

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Castle cannons aimed at the Cathedral

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
the Cathedral viewed from the roof of our apartment building

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Uppsala Cathedral with former Academy water mill (now the Uppland Museum) on the Fyris River

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Andrew, Newlin and Joel at an unidentified dam and lock in Sweden

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Gamla Uppsala


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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: Winter in Sweden 1970

Arnie tried to teach Newlin cross-country skiing. Their one and only outing was on the frozen Fyris River. Everyone in the family had downhill skis, but Arnie rigged up the skis for cross-country skiing as well. Newlin always stood out in the Swedish winter with her bright red jacket. The Swedes wore somber dark colors, typically black or blue.

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Newlin, Götgatan 3, Uppsala, ready to ski

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Newlin cross-country skiing on the Fyris River

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Newlin on the Fyrisån

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis

A family favorite was the city-run ski slope of Sunnerstabacken, where the lifts were free and there was a small snack shake at the bottom. Joel and Allan took ski lessons there and continued to go every weekend. They would leave the apartment with their skis and walk to the main bus downtown where a special bus had a ski rack in the back in which they would deposit their skis and run up to the front to enter and pay. At Sunnerstabacken they met up with some American friends their age and skied all day, Saturdays and Sundays, stopping only for lunch at the shack. Usually Arnie would drive Newlin, Andrew and Eric to Sunnesta in the afternoon to join them on the slopes — and no, Newlin did not even try downhill skiing, but she did manage some sledding with Eric. Then Arnie would strap the skis on the car roof and the whole family would head home.

We acquired a set of mini skis, too, and took turns enjoying them with our friends.

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel on mini skis at Sunnerstabacken

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel with a friend, Sunnerstabacken

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Joel with another friend, Sunnerstabacken

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel slalom skiing (middle figure), Sunnerstabacken

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric and Andrew, Sunnerstabacken

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric with a sled

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Arnie at Sunnerstabacken

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel ready to ski down the slope

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel on the tefat sled, Sunnerstabacken (with snack shack in background)

Over the week-long ski holiday the family went to Rättvik in Dalarna County in central Sweden. We stayed in a small guest home (called Sersgårdens Gästhem) on a former farm, hit the much bigger slopes of Rättviksbacken for downhill skiing, and took advantage of Sweden's allemansrätten 'every man's right' for cross-country skiing in the countryside. It was our first time to use chair lifts as the ones in Sunnerstabacken just pulled you along the ground up the slope. Newlin and Eric could take the chair lifts, too, but the operators had to stop the lift to let them walk off instead of ski off.

postcard of Sersgårdens Gästhem, Rättvik


Unmailed postcard from Allan to his friend Steve


Foto: AB Stockholms Aero, Godkänt av Försvarsstaben (Approved by the Defense Staff)
postcard of Sersgårdens Gästhem, Rättvik

postcard of Sersgårdens Gästhem, Rättvik (back side)

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric takes off down the slopes of Rättviksbacken 

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Newlin and Eric at Rättviksbacken

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Andrew on the slopes of Rättviksbacken with Lake Siljan in the distance

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan and Joel, Rättviksbacken

Andrew was the only son to have a fur hat like Arnie's. The rest of us preferred knitted caps.

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Andrew with his fur hat

1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan, Rättviksbacken


1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan


1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Newlin chasing Eric down the slopes


1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan


1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel, Rättviksbacken


1970 slide by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel on mini skis

We would frequently go skating at a nearby park (many of the ball fields were sprayed with water by the city to create ice rinks in the winter) in the afternoons after school. We all had hockey skates, except for Newlin, who had figure skates, which it turned out were much harder to learn on due to the toe picks at the front that interfered with her gliding.

One evening Arnie saw Andrew repeatedly falling on the ice, so he went over sympathetically to teach him to skate, but Andrew was skating just fine; he was merely practicing his diving skills so he could be a hockey goalie.


next post  Arnold and Newlin: Easter in Sweden 1970

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first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

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