KulturOntario's video: Thule Swedish Folk Dance Team 2pm set Scandinavian Festival Jamestown NY 2019-7-20 pt 2

Thule Lodge Swedish Folk Dance Team, Jamestown, NY https://www.facebook.com/swedishfolkdancejamestown/ Vasa Order of America https://www.vasaorder.com/ Scandinavian Jamestown http://www.scandinavianjamestown.org/ Scandinavian Folk Festival Jamestown, N.Y. https://www.facebook.com/ScandinavianFolkFest About Swedish Midsommar https://hejsweden.com/en/midsummer-in-sweden-how-swedes-celebrate-midsommar-tradition/ http://realscandinavia.com/midsummer-in-sweden-origins-and-traditions/ Jamestown, New York was founded by James Prendergast, who built the first log cabin in 1809. It developed as a Swedish-American settlement, and maintains a strong Scandinavian heritage. History of Swedes in America http://colonialswedes.net/History/History.html New Sweden Center, Wilmington Delaware http://www.colonialnewsweden.org/ New Sweden Alliance https://newswedenalliance.org/ Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce http://www.sacc-philadelphia.org/sacc-usa.html American-Swedish Historical Museum - Philadelphia https://www.americanswedish.org/ American Swedish Institute - Minneapolis https://www.asimn.org Swedish American Museum - Chicago http://swedishamericanmuseum.org/2.0/about/ New Sweden was a Swedish colony founded during the mid-1600s that became the US state of Delaware. New York state was originally New Netherlands, and New York City was founded as New Amsterdam. Even earlier Newfoundland in Canada and also probably some parts of the eastern Canada and US were called Vinland, a Viking colony. V is pronounced like F in many Germanic languages - so could sound like Finland. The Vikings are considered to be the first Europeans to settle on the east coast of North America in around 1000 CE, long before Columbus. The Basques have fished off the coast of North America since ancient times. European fishing activity developed into at first temporary and then permanent settlements in Newfoundland. Fishing was the first major economic interest Europeans had in North America, followed by the fur trade. Free e-books about Scandinavian traditions in English published by Rasmus Anderson (1846-1936) on Internet Archive https://archive.org/search.php?query=rasmus%20anderson