From Nykarleby to Vörå

In Brännars village, when she was retired in Finland, Anna continued to walk. Once she wanted to go for a very long walk to Brännars village where her brother's son worked as a teacher. Martin Kempe had three children and was the schoolteacher in this village in Vörå.

Anna wanted to walk all the way, but somebody picked her up in his car som she did not have to walk the whole route she had planned.

She kept herself in good condition also in old age, it seems.

The cottage is by a lake, abandoned today but it is possible to go downhills to get a closer look at the lake and a beachmeadow in front of it.

About the Anna Kempe book in swedish

Anna Kempe learned to write and read swedish in this schoolhouse

Anna Kempe was one of the first girls who could go to school and learn to read and write. The school is called "Anders Svedberg's school" because Annas uncle Anders Svedberg had planned and participated in the building process of the schoolhouse. He worked first as teacher here, and became later a member of parliament. He is still today considered as a very important historical person in his home parish.

Anna had a long way to walk from her home in order to be able to study in this sschool. She walked also in wintertime. Maybe that is how she could later manage so well in the mountainous region of Himalaya where she later in her life worked. She had from youth a good condition and could sustain hardships. She continued in her retired years the same habit of walking for many hours.

A missionary station from 1905

Anna Kempe left for India in 1909 the first time. This house och missionary church has a text on the wall that says it was built four years earlier,  in 1905. It is still a very nice church in need of only small restauration. There are not so often gatherings there, but the area around it is very suitable for bicycle tours. It is not situatied in Anna's home parish Nykarleby, but in Vörå, she also visited here, when she was very young and had not yet become a teacher.

Inside is a photo collection of missionaries that has left for different destinations.

Many of them seem to have been more interested in music than Anna Kempe and show in the photos many fancy instruments, that they have gathered during their worksessions in different countries.