EPISODE · Jun 9, 2026 · 38 MIN
SCOTT SEGERSTROM | From famine to fortune - a Swedish immigrant story with a golden twist
from LETTERS FROM AMERICA · host MARTIN WÆRN
As this road trip passed through Boone, North Carolina, I was fortunate enough to sit down with Scott Segerstrom, who shared his family's story, starting with his great-great-grandfather, Anders Frederick Andersson, and his thirteen determined daughters, who all left a life in a cave outside Tybble, Sweden, to seek fortune in Mead, Nebraska. With a calm voice and a yellow notepad, Scott takes us past brutal landowners, famine, and death, through Ellis Island, New York, Wilmington, Boston - all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge.- It's the story that echoes together with thousands of other Swedes who all shared a similar fate when leaving Sweden for a better life in the United States of America. But this one has its own golden twist in the end.
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As this road trip passed through Boone, North Carolina, I was fortunate enough to sit down with Scott Segerstrom, who shared his family's story, starting with his great-great-grandfather, Anders Frederick Andersson, and his thirteen determined daughters, who all left a life in a cave outside Tybble, Sweden, to seek fortune in Mead, Nebraska. With a calm voice and a yellow notepad, Scott takes us past brutal landowners, famine, and death, through Ellis Island, New York, Wilmington, Boston - all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge.- It's the story that echoes together with thousands of other Swedes who all shared a similar fate when leaving Sweden for a better life in the United States of America. But this one has its own golden twist in the end.
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