Arnold and Newlin: The Reisingers, June 1970

In Sweden families have a stuga på landet 'cabin in the countryside', so a country house, to which they escape their urban or suburban environment, usually in the summer but for some all year long. We had several invitations to visit friends' stugor. This is the Reisingers' stuga:

Eric in a hammock at the Reisingers'

Newlin with the host

Eric investigates a pool of water

the host shows Eric his fish farm

Newlin, Allan and Joel with the hosts

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Arnold and Newlin: Helsinki, June 1970

The family visits in Helsinki for the weekend. We stay in the Sokos Hotel Vaakuna downtown by the main train station, where we can walk to the kauppatori (market square), Senate Square and Cathedral.

Hotel Vaakuna

In 1977–78 and in 1983–84 Joel studied at the University of Helsinki. In 1984 he took a class in the University's Main Building (in a classroom on middle level to the right of the columns):

University of Helsinki's Main Building, Senate Square and statue of Czar Alexander II (Grand Duke of Finland)

University of Helsinki's Main Building

Helsinki's Kauppatori open air market place (with Hazel in blue)

flowers for sale at the Kauppatori open air market

goods and produce for sale at the Kauppatori open air market

goods and crafts for sale at the Kauppatori open air market

Allan, Joel, Eric, Andrew, Newlin, and Hazel in the market

Andrew, Newlin and Hazel buying flowers

Mannerheimintie, Helsinki's main boulevard

Helsinki bus station (and Tennis Palatsi 'tennis palace' on right)

1919 Helsinki train station

train station with Lutheran Cathedral and Uspenski Cathedral in distance

Uspenski Finnish Orthodox Cathedral

The Lutheran Cathedral was white or pale gray in 1970. In the 1980s and 1990s it was repainted to a darker gray as a return to the original color scheme of Carl Ludvig Engel. Today in 2021 I see it is white again.

Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral

postcard of Senate Square and Helsinki Cathedral

The yellow and green model of tram pictured below was still in use when Joel lived in Helsinki in the 1970s but had been replaced by the time he resided there in the mid 1980s.

Hakaniementori

Paavo Nurmi statue (by Wäinö Aaltonen 1925) by the 1952 Olympic Stadium;
Paavo Nurmi was known as the Flying Finn at the 1924 Paris Olympics

Arnie running past the Paavo Nurmi statue

This last photo was not staged. Arnie was in a hurry to take pictures while the family waited in the car for him.

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We made a weekend trip to Finland before Hazel returned home to California.

Andrew, Hazel and Newlin on the ferry to Turku

Joel and Allan on the ferry

sailboats in the Baltic Sea near Åland

sailboat in the Baltic Sea near Åland

The family picnics in the medieval town of Porvoo:

Allan, Joel, Newlin, Andrew, and Eric picnicking near Porvoo

This looks like the medieval Pyhän Marian Kirkko (St. Mary's Church) tower near Sastamala; Eric and Newlin are walking in the cemetery

Eric at Porvoo Cathedral

Porvoo

Eric by the Freedom Monument in Porvoo

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Arnold and Newlin: Dortmund, May 1970

Before we head back to Denmark and Sweden, the final stop in West Germany is Dortmund. We see a building that looks as if it was patched from the bullet holes of World War II.

our Volvo with the Dortmunder Actien brewery in the background

Dortmund building

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Arnold and Newlin: Heidelberg and Würzburg, May 1970

The next stop on our tour of West Germany is Heidelberg, followed by Würzburg, where we visit the Marienberg Fortress above the Main River.

Joel, Newlin, Allan, and Hazel in Heidelberg

Heidelberg

Andrew at Heidelberg

Wurzburg with Marienberg Fortress

Eric, Newlin and Andrew in Marienberg Fortress, Wurzburg

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Arnold and Newlin: Ulm and the Black Forest, May 1970

The first set of slides here are labeled Black Forest, where we stopped for a picnic. The second set are from Ulm, of Ulm Minster. The tour is getting close to the home of Hazel's German ancestors, who were Calvinist Protestants that emigrated to the Colony of Pennsylvania. 

Hazel and Eric in the Black Forest

Andrew in the Black Forest

Allan, Andrew and Eric in the Black Forest

Allan, Joel, Eric, and Andrew in the Black Forest

Andrew running the Black Forest

Eric and Andrew in Bavaria 

Ulm Minster

Ulm Minster

Newlin, Allan, Eric, and Andrew at Ulm Minster

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