The Wedding Shoes

Rural Sweden was a beautiful place in 1889 when Edvard and Inga came of age and planned to get married. The countryside around their farm town of Kisa was breathtaking and serene. Their lives were filled with customs and traditions, folklore and mythology, common wisdom and an expectation of a birthright.

They didn't expect a lot - just the same lives their families had lived for generations. But life has changed. The population has soared. The industrial revolution has altered the social o...