De svenska Utvandrarna (The Swedish Emigrants) – A last glance back home before America
On the beautiful rose-clad hill at Näsviken, near the inlet port of Karlshamn - county of Blekinge, Sweden, stands a high statue of a couple ("The Emigration Monument"- Axel Ohlsson 1959), ready for travel by ship to a new life in North America. The man stands steady and confident, facing the sea and ready to go but his wife turns her head, a last...