Step inside a log cabin on the edge of the Minnesota prairie on a December night in 1885, a few days before Christmas, and stay through one long, deep-frozen night with a Swedish immigrant family. About 3 hours of calm, unhurried storytelling for sleep.
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Dusk on the prairie's edge, a cabin of oak and clay, the iron stove, supper by lamplight, evening chores along the barn rope, letters from Sweden, a one-room school, knitting mittens, a neighbor on skis, getting ready for a Swedish Christmas, old tales of the farm gnome, the northern lights, bedtime in the loft, the long night watch, the prairie asleep, and what became of it all.

The family is imagined; the land, the work and the customs come from settlers' letters, memoirs and homestead records. Where historians are not sure, the story says so.

After the story ends, about 20 minutes of quiet music continue.

Chapters
0:00 Welcome
1:21 Dusk on the Prairie's Edge
11:51 A Cabin of Oak and Clay
21:55 The Iron Stove
31:43 Supper in the Lamplight
42:37 Chores in the Blue Cold
53:04 Letters from Sweden
1:03:48 Elsa's School
1:14:01 Wool and Needles
1:24:18 Mr. Haugen Comes on Skis
1:34:41 Getting Ready for Christmas
1:45:23 The Tomte and Other Old Stories
1:55:46 The Northern Lights
2:06:54 Bedtime in the Loft
2:17:17 The Long Night Watch
2:27:44 The Prairie Asleep
2:38:27 First Light, and Long After
2:49:02 Soft music only, no narration

About Moonscroll History
Calm history to fall asleep to: we step inside one place and one night in the past, and stay a while.

More winter-night sleep stories
What a Winter Night Was Really Like in Ancient Rome, AD 110: https://youtu.be/FopMWL-_I-Q
What a Winter Night Was Really Like in a Medieval Village, 1340: https://youtu.be/U350KpN-cnM
What a Winter Night Was Really Like for Ice Age Humans: https://youtu.be/-iuFvOGy1tk

Narration is synthetic voice. Background music is original. Artwork, toned to night scenes: George Henry Durrie and Currier & Ives (American winter farm scenes), Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn, Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer (The Country School), Adolph Tidemand, Harriet Backer, Carl Holsoe, Georg Achen, Aukusti Uotila, Peder Balke, Frederic Edwin Church (Aurora Borealis), Arkhip Kuindzhi and Ivan Shishkin (all public domain), and The Milky Way by ESO/S. Brunier (CC BY 4.0). Many are New England or Scandinavian scenes, used for mood.

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