School Days - Gösta Abrahamsson

End of summer and my grandkids are going back to school. Many years ago my fathers cousin Gösta did the same in Sweden. Was childhood sweeter then? Certainly Gösta and his classmates did not have security drills in the event of a shooter in the school, did they?

Middle row seated third from the left (in white shirt) sits Gösta Abrahamsson with his class and teacher.

My father's cousin
Seth Gösta James Abrahamsson
b. June 21, 1935 Östra Frölunda, Ålvsborg, Sweden
d. December 2019 Östra Frölunda, Ålvsborg, Sweden

     Hmmm,

Swimming in Lake Vitasjön -Gösta Abrahamson

A popular swimming site in Östra Frölunda can be found on Lake Vitasjön

Cousin Ingemar sent me a lovely book of photos of the old historic Östra Frölunda* and those that lived there. I  skimmed through it before but I just today noticed this photo. I just love knowing that our ancestors were not as "tightly wound" as they often appeared in those old, serious, photos. 

(naked in Vitasjön. Gösta Abrahamsson)

For what it is worth, I have noticed when visiting family in Norway that particularly children and young folk do often swim in the buff. They do not view the human form negatively yet in other ways are far more reserved and less foul than many Americans are.Then again, could the young Gösta ever have even remotely imagined that years from then, his future descendants or cousins up to three and four generations removed, in another country no less, could view this picture of him? Let alone it was published in a book*?  

Grandma Lydia's nephew

My cousin once removed

Seth Gösta Abrahamsson

1935-2019

*from the book "Gamla foton från Östra Frölunda", p. 100

published by Östra Frölunda Hembygdsförening - 2010