From left: Norman Carlson, Chautauqua County historian; Kim Ecklund, City of Jamestown mayor; Cynthia McKane, retired JCC reference librarian and assistant professor; and Don Sandy, director of the Scandinavian Folk Festival in Jamestown
The Jamestown American Scandinavian Heritage Foundation has recently donated the two-volume reference work to Jamestown Community College.
“Swedish Contributions to American Freedom, 1776-1783” as written by noted Swedish-American historian Amandus Johnson. The second volume was sponsored in part by Jamestown resident Earl O. Hultquist (1891-1963), whose legacy lives on through the Jamestown Campus library that bears his family name. The books will be housed at JCC’s Hultquist Library.
Until this donation, the closest available copies were at Cornell University in Ithaca and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, making this a valuable addition for students, faculty, and community.
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