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Rolling Easter Eggs in Skåne, Sweden

Photos by: Mikael Paul. Click to enlarge.

These photos were sent to me by my Swedish cousin Mikael who, like me, is a grandson of Bengt and Hildegard Paul. Mikael explained to me that there is egg rolling in Sweden, just like there is on the White House lawn. As Mikael explains, 

Hej Jim and Isy

Hope you all are well and will have a good Easter. Here in Skåne we still have snow and cold weather which is very unusual for this time of the year. So we don’t expect to be able to sit outside this year to enjoy our Easter lunch. What we eat for lunch is the usual, the same as we have for Christmas and midsummer, that is of course herring in different forms.

We celebrate Easter together with some old friends and their families. We start with Easter lunch, which is herring and snaps. Later we rolls eggs. This is something for you to try. Everyone should have a very hardboiled egg which you have painted. Build a course so you can roll down your eggs, not too high. You start with everybody rolling down their egg. Then the youngest picks up her egg and rolls it and tries to hit one or more eggs. Everyone is equipped with a candy bag, so if you hit any egg you can pick a candy from that person's candy bag. Then it's the next youngest's turn. We continue until almost every egg is broken.

Happy Easter

Mikael, Agneta, Thang and Linh

Thanks, Mikael! A great Easter to all the Pauls and Stolts!

Technology Cartoon

Cartoon by Isabella Bannerman. For reprints, see King Features.

She's not a dinosaur, she's kept up with technology. 

Salad Bar Cartoon

Cartoon by Isabella Bannerman. For reprints, go to King Features.

The Easter Bunny visits the salad bar.   

Hoodlums Cartoon

Cartoon by Isabella Bannerman. For reprints see King Features.

If only they'd eat the grass instead of the hosta.

Permissive Parenting Cartoon

Cartoon by Isabella Bannerman. For reprints, contact King Features.

And then it's time to do the kids' homework for them. Send this cartoon to a permissive parent you know using one of the buttons below.

Computer Cartoon

Cartoon by Isabella Bannerman. For reprint info, see King Features.

The computer needs more training. More cartoons at isabellabannerman.com. You can also check out more Bannerman technology cartoons in the Categories section of this blog. More animal cartoons here.

Vampire Cartoon

Cartoon by: Isabella Bannerman. For reprint info, contact King Features.

I love this drawing. What a cute little vampire kid. Click to see detail. Have you Liked "Isabella Bannerman Cartoons" on Facebook yet? And did you know you can order her book, "Pacifists in Bomber Jackets," here?

Frank's Louisiana Hot Sauce On Sale at Costco

Two big bottles for $5.69. Below, what to do with them: Harley Spiller's best chicken wings recipe ever. Click to enlarge, you won't be sorry. 

Jake Sicherman Debates for J.Y.M.A., June 1916

From a packet of newspaper clippings and photos sent to me by Barbara Sicherman. I've really enjoyed posting the four audio essays with Barbara this week on subjects from Well Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women. Barbara's dad Jake was my grandfather Paul's best friend, in high school and throughout life. Her mother, Esther, was a great friend of my grandmother, Isabelle. Here is an article about Jake debating a J.Y.M.A. team from Rochester at Temple Beth Zion. Thanks for this week, Barbara!

To Get a Foot in the Library Door, Immigrant Kids Cleaned Their Hands in Puddles

Photo: Lewis Hine, "Tenement House with Children in Front," 1910

An interview with scholar Barbara Sicherman about why her father and other children on the Lower East Side of New York loved the library.

Wash Hands Before Reading (2:31)