Oil painting

Tora Bohlin Landström was born in 1918 on the estate Håveröd in the parish of Svarteborg in northern Bohusländer 1918. She was the second youngest child of eleven to the parents Teodor Holmberg Bolin (1876 1965) and Olena Söderström (1880 1966). The father was the last soldier in Bohus’s regiment and the family was a farmer on the farm, located on the west side of Lake Bullaren. The mother’s parents were a miller. The youngest child in the family, the little sister Betty, became Torah’s main competitor for attention at home. Tora’s eldest sister Ebba trained for a teacher and worked in Västerbotten. In her 14 years, Tora was sent to big sister for some time and she met her future husband. A few years later, the couple decided to marry but Tora’s parents were totally against this. But Tora did not give up and eventually had his parents' approval married as unconscious, before his 18th birthday in 1936. Tora was very skilled at crafts of art of all kinds. She knitted, sewed clothes and was indulged most of the time. This is how Tora Bohlin Landström writes at the beginning of the book: Hoveröd was the last farm in the parish of Svarteborg in northern Bohuslän and was located at Bullaren, a three-mile lake and a narrow lake. To the north, the uncarved bullingane lived. Otherwise, the population was called Nolhottar and Sörhottar. We were thus Sörhottar and Christians because we lived on the right side of the border. What luck! Did we find ourselves small. It was like belonging to a better race and it took a few years before I became so familiar with people there from north, so I understood that we were just like each other, like all the peoples of the earth. The stories and pictures may feel a bit idyllic to many. And certainly I could have told them without a golden edge. Surely I could have told me about the blind cantor who manages to collect some sticks in a barrow, when the farmer came to reef all time and accused him of theft. Surely I could have told about the seven-year-old standing and holding the photogenic lamp when the mother helped the neighbour at a childbirth. But there are so many who have already painted and written about how difficult it was. I don’t want to broaden myself there. There is nothing wrong, but I think there is too much misery. There were hills too. Torah’s parents married in 1900. They are both featured in a photograph along with their firstborn, taken in 1901 at a Christmas kalas in the Kristinedal estate in Bullaren. On the kalaset are also Tora’s grandfather and grandmother and many other relatives among the total of 26 people the photographer managed to get in picture. See UMFA53044: 0001.