var options = { attributes: { rel: 'nofollow', title: 'click to open', }, className: '', format: { url: function (value) { return value } }, ignoreTags: ['a'], validate: { url: function (value) { return value; } } }; var str = `We had to leave Richard Galloway's studio, leaving enough time to get to the Carl Larsson historical site by 4 pm. Rasimus arranged for us to hook up with a 4 pm tour in English. Right from the beginning, the tour guide's presentation seemed off. In the first room, he talked about the rarity of a woman, Karin Larsson, attending an art school in that period and having an art career. He then made some reference to that situation being the same as today. But it is not, for all intents and purposes, the same. In leaving that room, Catherine (Murphy), had enough of it and decided to sit out the rest of the tour. This opportunity gave me license to correct several misapprehensions that the guide had conveyed in his presentation (if I had done this in front of Catherine, it would have made her feel self-conscious). I tried to do so "gently." We both felt kind of bad for the tour guide. In addition to having incorrect information, he worked very hard to be entertaining. He also made Larssons' life seem trivial and talked to the group as if we were all 12-year-olds. Luckily, the couple and their children in this picture were also on this tour. So maybe they took better to the guides oratory style than we did. Considering that I hadn't previously spoken with these people and didn't know them, I would have ordinarily entered this photograph into the "Chance Encounters" section of this site. But I wanted to include this entry with the other entries from Sweden.`; document.write(linkifyHtml(str, options)); ]]>