An assumption only or a theory?The reason for me to remember Vingåker,Paris and Nairobi

Big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton
Haverholme Priory.Earl of Winchilsea.The family estate in Lincolnshire
Baroness Karen Blixen.The author of " Out of Africa ".

Lasse Nilsson. Kaisa Komulainen-Nilsson


Let me face you with a private assumption about why I and maybe you do remember some sites, cities, faces, persons and events for years. Three cities are mentioned above:
The Swedish city, Vingåker, the capital of France, Paris and Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. What do the cities have in common? Why do I recall them all too often? My statement is that if you move people who are dedicated in some or another field, they would let you know about their interests, dreams, ambitions wherever they go or settle- I think.If you had been my students I would ask you some questions connected to some words letting you explain to me the importance of the words. Let me make a test. Question one is: Kjesæter and Vingåker and the Second World War? Those Norwegians who left Norway to fight the German occupation of the country, do remember
the name Kjesæter because they all had to be questioned about why they left Norway in spring 1942. The castle Kjesæter is situated close to Vingåker in Sødermanland.Not
all of the refugees had a good reason for leaving the country and some of them were sent by the Germans to spy on the Norwegian soldiers. Many of the young men married the beautiful Swedish girls and many have only good memories from the stay in Vingåker during the war. Due to my age I was not among the refugees. The Norwegians
made Vingåker and the castle Kjesæter know to many in Norway. They came, they stayed
and left and made local history in Vingåker. My assumption might not be too bad. Let
me continue with my lecture about my settlement theory. Two friends of mine have recently also settled in Vingåker.They left the busy life in Stockholm and have decided make it in Nederhult, Vingåker. A splendid and bold decision, I think. Kaisa
Komulainen- Nilsson and Lasse Nilsson have decided to work for the community by being active in local politics representing the party, Venstrepartiet Vingåker.
Several public meetings have already been arranged.Two dedicated persons who have many interests like literature, cooking, gardening, reading, writing and they are not afraid of making mistakes or make it known in public about negative conditions
of the city of Vingåker. Norwegian refugees, Norwegian soldiers and two persons from Stockholm are making Vingåker an interesting site to go to. You are all welcome to Vingåker to study Norwegian military history or visit Nederhult and get splendid food made by the Swedish refugees from Stockholm or you may buy cheap cloths there.
Think about it - next stop Vingåker. Let me move to Paris to make you believe in my settlement theory. As being my student I ask you to connect the following sentences to a city in France: " La Generation perdue " or " The lost generation " or " A rose is a rose is a rose " famous expressions for those of you who do love reading.
Right -it is Paris after the First World War and the maker of the famous words is the American author Gertrude Stein. She was born in Pennsylvania, USA, in 1874 and died in 1946. She loved Paris -like many of us do. She settled in Paris too. Ernest
Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald,Ezra Pound,Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Pierce, Sylvia Beach and T.S. Eliot are writers who met Gertrude Stein in Paris to talk about the secret of writing. They all made Paris know to the world by writing about the city they all loved. Ernest Hemingway wrote a nice book about his memories in Paris:" A Moveable Feast "- or a love declaration to Paris.I
continue to make you believe in my assumption by moving to the city of Nairobi.
Kenya was a British colony and administrated by the British. Why Nairobi? What is so important about Nairobi? The answer is that I try to make you believe in moving educated and qualified people to a site and that they make the site famous for generations due to their activities and work. This time I will ask you about some persons who made Kenya and Nairobi well-known to the whole world. Denys Finch Hatton,Karen Blixen, Beryl Markham (my favorite)and Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke.
Many books have been written about them all during the time they dominated the public life in Kenya before the Second World War. Movies have been made too about the mentioned persons: " Out of Africa " is the most famous. Karen Blixen published her famous book about her African farm after having left Nairobi and settled in Denmark. Her house in Nairobi is a museum.Beryl Markham was the first woman to earn an aviator's licence in British East Africa. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo by plane in 1936. Denys Finch Hatton - educated at Eton and Oxford- a famous hunter, was killed in 1931 in a plane crash. His grave is a tourist site to-day. Baron Bror
von Blixen-Finecke did hunting in Africa with Ernest Hemingway and assisted him in writing about hunting.He also set up a medical group to assist Norway in the fight against Germany and later moved back to Sweden.
My conclusion is that I have hoped to make you believe in moving people to far away sites to make the places well-known to the whole world or if you want to set up a plant anywhere, you need to make people aware of the work you have done.No excuse for being passive and not active, my friends. Good luck. Finally -some photos of
persons mentioned and sites.

BOOK HUNTING IN NEDERHULT

Some like it hot-extremely hot - searching for a distant goal: Old books only - and some forgotten and officially lost movies - but not forgotten by some dedicated book hunters. The legendary British hunter Denys Finch Hatton made Kenya famous due to his hunting activities and his love to the Danish farmer Karen Blixen. Animals were
the object for his hunting but he later turned to photo journeys. I leave him in peace but he is a good example for all other hunters what ever they want to hunt. I
have chosen books and films for my hunting. My latest place for the hunt was a nice site called NEDERHULT. For the time being I leave it to you to find the place. The hunting leader was the book hunter Lasse Nilsson. He is addicted to books too.
We went on searching for books in old farms, castles and shops where you might buy anything used for generations who had lived in the district. To my surprise, I found a book written by an unknown French author, Jehanne d'Orliac, called in Swedish: "Lady Chatterleys andre man". I had no information about the writer. Why did I care about the book at all? Because of the preface of the book. The preface was written by the late and former French author and Minister of Culture of France, Andre Malraux. He makes an attempt to understand Lady Chatterley. She has a wish to understand herself and the book is about her talk with herself about herself.
Andre Malraux is of the opinion that many of the persons who D.H. Lawrence is describing ,are lonely. The emotional relations between the persons are too much based on erotic and sexual relations than mutual affection .I get a feeling that Andre Malraux has no faith in the persons described in the book? I might misunderstand him and I might be wrong in my understanding of D.H. Lawrence attitude to the human body and his strong sexual believe in the relation between man and woman? Anyway- the hunt was a good one. I had to learn about a new and interesting French writer , Jehanne d'Orliac. A review of the book will be published in a later
blog. Let us face some fact about the book: The original title was: " LE DEUXIEME
MARI DE LADY CHATTERLEY ". The book is published in Sweden in 1944 during the Second World War. The name of the translator is Olof Rabenius. About 238 pages. The copyright owner is: BOKFØRLAGS AB SUECIA. In 1944 you had to pay kr.14.50 for a copy.
The story is about the new life of Lady Chatterley. It is the story about what happened to her after having left her husband to live with the former forest guard.
I will let you know later on my opinion about the book and the story and the writer
who is a very interesting French lady. Hunting is thrilling! Join me. If you want to hunt in NEDERHULT ,just call Lasse Nilsson who is for the time being working in SVT
making an attempt to preserve the splendid Swedish television productions transmitted.
(If you are interesting in reading about hunting in Kenya, I will recommend the followings books: 1.Errol Trzebinski: Silence Will Speak. The story of Denys Finch Hatton 2. Lennart Hagerfors: Drømmen om Ngong. 3. Tonni Arnold: Bror Blixen.4. Beryl Markham: West with the Night.
For your information: Apart from hunting animals, all of the hunters mentioned in the books also appreciated reading - apart from Bror Blixen).