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.

Hazel pushing Eric on the swingset in front of our apartment building

Hazel and Eric at play

Hazel and Eric

Joel and Andrew with neighbors in the yard of our apartment building

Eric on the swingset of our apartment building yard

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:

Uppsala Cathedral (from 1435) viewed from Castle Hill

Uppsala Cathedral viewed from our rooftop

another rooftop view of Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River viewed from our rooftop

Uppsala Cathedral viewed from our apartment building rooftop

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River

Uppsala Cathedral and the Fyris River with our apartment building (3 Götgatan); we lived on the fourth floor

Our apartment building at 3 Götgatan, Uppsala

Joel and Andrew biking in Uppsala

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 Thornan, taken from Toruń, Poland, as war booty in 1703 by Swedish forces of King Carl XII (Charles XII) during the Great Northern War (1700–1721). 

Thornan Bell, Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala University's Main Building viewed from a Cathedral tower

The River Fyris (Fyrisån); out apartment building is one of the white buildings in the upper left, near the bridge

Uppsala Castle (from the mid Sixteenth Century, rebuilt after a 1702 fire)

Eric on a cannon at Uppsala Castle

Uppsala Castle

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)

Castle cannons aimed at the Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral

the Cathedral viewed from the roof of our apartment building

Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral with former Academy water mill (now the Uppland Museum) on the Fyris River

Andrew, Newlin and Joel at an unidentified dam and lock in Sweden

Gamla Uppsala

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Arnold and Newlin: Christmas in Sweden 1969

On December 13 we boys woke up with the the daughter of a family friend wearing white, sporting a garland and candles on her head, and serving pepparkakor (Swedish ginger cookies) for Santa Lucia Day.

We celebrated Christmas in Uppsala with a small Christmas tree, candles, and other decorations Newlin purchased locally in Uppsala. She bought more on sale after Christmas.

Andrew, Joel and Eric

Andrew, Joel and Eric

This is Joel's description of that Christmas:

Here are some sledding photos from the Viking mounds at Gamla Uppsala. The little round sleds were called tefats 'saucers'. They were good for Andrew and Eric, but for anyone bigger, our legs dragged and we sledded down backwards. Erics was so light weight even in a larger sled that he kept going down the hill through the farm field next door and once disappeared into a snow-filled drainage ditch. 

Allan sledding at Gamla Uppsala

Allan and Joel

Allan on the slopes of Gamla Uppsala

Joel with a tefat

Joel sliding backwards on a tefat

Andrew with a sled at Gamla Uppsala

Allan and Joel sledding

Allan and Joel

Allan and Joel

Newlin with Eric, Allan, Joel, and Andrew in the distance

Newlin at Gamla Uppsala

Joel sledding backwards on a tefat

Arnie at Gamla Uppsala

Eric

An odd thing happened one evening in December when Arnie and Newlin went for a walk in the dusk and arrived home at the same time as a neighbor on the top floor. Another person entered at the same time, with Arnie and Newlin thinking he was a guest of the neighbor and the neighbor think he was with them. As they got in the lift, all three realize he was with neither party. Since he bolted up the stairs, the neighbor, an older woman living alone, got extremely concerned and insisted Arnie come upstairs to check out the stairwell access to the roof and give her time to get into her apartment. The next day they found out there had been a mass shooting overnight of seven people with two deaths along the Fyris River, and they think, after the fact, that it was the suspect who entered their building.

The Gustavianum is the oldest standing building of Uppsala University, dating to the 1620s. It had a wooden anatomical theater which I recall as very steep. 

Gustavianum in winter

Gustavianum, Uppsala University

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