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IKEA ~ Proud Sponsor Of The ELD Museum

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IKEA has been a sponsor of the ELD Museum since the museum opened because of the company's connection to the Dickinson family:   Emily and Emmett Lee’s great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was Edvin Gunnbjörg Dikeanssöhn, a whittler and palingwright (a maker of wooden fencing).  
A contemporary branch of the Dikeanssöhn family owns and operates IKEA, the home furnishings company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture (originally out of fencing slats).
Pictured at the right:  Emily and Emmett Lee Dickinson's  great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather Edvin Gunnbjörg Dikeanssöhn

Pictured at the far right:  A great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Edvin Gunnbjörg Dikeanssöhn and a contemporary of Emily Dickinson was Sweden's preeminent poet, Uhmilli Dikeanssöhn
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To view our exhibit on the Dikeanssöhn family, IKEA and the connection to the Dickinsons, click HERE.  

Pictured at the right:  The Dikeanssöhn's IKEA Plant in Ӧhmerst, Sweden, processes over 88% of the world's lumber.
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Pictured at the left  The IKEA Lumber Processing Plant in Washerst, PA, processes most of the lumber used in IKEA Furniture Marts in the United States.

Below:  One of Uhmilli Dikeanssöhn's first poems was an ode to the lumber her family's company processed for make-it-yourself furniture.
Below:  Uhmilli Dikeanssöhn's poem:

Froöklently dâr woøt är röd –

Froöklently dâr brūn.
Froöklently vee strippa dâr woøt
Backt oof mein toŏn.
Oft en twêet håft nestad
Veer der wars ein trēed –
Wôonse Ich hade en trēehoøse
Veer der wast to bēed –
Und der Errt – dey tøld mig
Ist sôo darrable
Mit die krop Revoølvin
Das est bin currabål.
Below:  The English translation:

Frequently the wood is red –

Frequently is brown.
Frequently we strip the hills
Behind my native town.
Oft a bird has nested
Where there was a tree –
Once I had a treehouse
Where they used to be –
And the Earth – they tell me –
Is so durable
With some crop Rotation!
It’s all curable!
Below:  Dikeanssöhn's poem inspired this poem by Emily Dickinson:
Frequently the woods are pink –
Frequently are brown.
Frequently the hills undress
Behind my native town.
Oft a head is crested
I was wont to see –
And as oft a cranny
Where it used to be –
And the Earth – they tell me –
On it's axis turned!
Wonderful Rotation!
By but twelve performed!

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