A Road Trip Podcast
- an American Journey and Everything In Between
Brent Erickson - when a search for your Swedish roots leads to the wrong tree
A Weekend Throwback: Earlier this summer, while in Washington, DC, for the Swedish National Day and Midsummer Celebrations, I met with Brent Erickson, a man who spent most of his life deeply involved in United States politics, now retired and a full-time artist and painter. And he told me he had a story to tell, about his Swedish great-grandmother, wagon trains across the prairie, Sand Hills of Nebraska, whiskey & turpentine - and the Swedish Royal Family.
Kate Novak | From Stockholm, Paris, and Washington, D.C. - turning a footprint into a Swedish legacy
There's a building at 2900 K Street, Northwest, in Washington, DC, overlooking the Potomac River. It's designed by Swedish architects and built from materials reflecting Swedish roots and traditions, and in 2006, it was inaugurated by the King and Queen of Sweden as the home for the Embassy of Sweden - making it the official Swedish footprint in the United States. It is known as the "House of Sweden" - and it all started with Swedish-born Kate Novak.
Peter Borsos | From a world of phones to an invisible infrastructure - 150 years of Ericsson
Telling these stories from a road trip wouldn't be possible without the complex infrastructure of a mobile network, so I met with Peter Borsos, Head of Communications at Ericsson, in Washington, D.C., to talk about the company's 150-year history - 120 of those making a Swedish footprint in the United States (…)