. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . iHi-: ^tlT)■■^^lMl•K fi>ii\a1-—m:s\ swiDkn 76 IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. winter has little dread for people wlio traveled southwardthrough 14 degrees of latitude to come from Stockholm, inSweden, to their American homes. The boys welcome spring,. I HI-: Ni:\V SWEDEN HANI) on the eve of Ma\- 1, b\- bonfires built on the hilltops. Midsum-mer, the da} of which is June 22, is, next to Christmas, themost merr} festival. There are green boughs and festoons ofevergreens and wild flowers al)Out the
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . iHi-: ^tlT)■■^^lMl•K fi>ii\a1-—m:s\ swiDkn 76 IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. winter has little dread for people wlio traveled southwardthrough 14 degrees of latitude to come from Stockholm, inSweden, to their American homes. The boys welcome spring,. I HI-: Ni:\V SWEDEN HANI) on the eve of Ma\- 1, b\- bonfires built on the hilltops. Midsum-mer, the da} of which is June 22, is, next to Christmas, themost merr} festival. There are green boughs and festoons ofevergreens and wild flowers al)Out the farmhouse verandas andgateways in joy of the day, and a public celebration with musicand song and oratory and a collation is a customary feature ofthe occasion. In all the joyousness of these festivals the elderlypeople are sharers, for the fondness of the old for the young is amarked and pleasing trait of the Swedish character. My ride with Mr. Fogelin through New Sweden, enlivenedby his apt descriptions of the scenes we passed, was drawing toan end. We were be}ond the village and before us the highlands dropped into the lower le\-els where the road for the rest IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. 77 of the way to the station led through a cedar swamp. At afarmhouse by the roadside a farmer, driving with his famih^to town, had halted his team to make a nei
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