{"id":171421,"date":"2026-06-23T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/?p=171421"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:02:06","slug":"harkullan-och-busskungen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/2026\/06\/harkullan-och-busskungen\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00e5rkullan och Busskungen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vid V\u00e5mhus kyrka st\u00e5r H\u00e5rkullan och Busskungen.\u00a0 Tv\u00e5 vackra statyer p\u00e5 m\u00e4nniskor som gjort V\u00e5mhus vida k\u00e4nt p\u00e5 lite olika vis.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">V\u00e5mhus \u00e4r ber\u00f6mt f\u00f6r sina h\u00e5rarbeten och korgmakeri. Dessa hantverk fick under 1800-talet och f\u00f6rsta h\u00e4lften av 1900-talet st\u00e5 f\u00f6r de extrainkomster som kr\u00e4vdes f\u00f6r att \u00f6verleva. Speciellt h\u00e5rkullorna vandrade med sina h\u00e5rarbeten till de nordiska grannl\u00e4nderna och till England, Tyskland och d\u00e5tidens Ryssland. L\u00e4s mer om h\u00e5rkullornas hantverk h\u00e4r: <a href=\"https:\/\/mora.se\/aktuellt\/harfint-hantverk-lever-i-vamhus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H\u00e5rfint hantverk lever i V\u00e5mhus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171422\" style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171422\" class=\"size-large wp-image-171422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001066-529x640.jpg\" alt=\"H\u00e5rkullan\" width=\"529\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001066-529x640.jpg 529w, https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001066-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001066-165x200.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001066-79x96.jpg 79w, https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001066.jpg 1103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-171422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"display:block; color:#888; font-size:small; font-weight:normal;\">Canon EOS 7D Mark II (214mm, f\/5.6, 1\/400 sec, ISO4000)<br><\/span> H\u00e5rkullan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">V\u00e5mhussonen som blev hela Amerikas busskung. Han f\u00f6ddes i V\u00e5mhus 1887 och emigrerade till USA i unga \u00e5r. Han startade 1914 det som skulle bli v\u00e4rldens st\u00f6rsta bussbolag, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greyhound.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Greyhound Lines Inc<\/b><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, i Hibbing Minnesota.<br \/>\nL\u00e4s Erik Svenssons sammanst\u00e4llning om <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/v-sock\/erikwick.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>&#8220;V\u00e5mhuspojken som blev Amerikas busskung&#8221;<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171423\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001067.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171423\" class=\"size-large wp-image-171423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001067-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"Busskungen\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001067-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001067-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001067-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001067-72x96.jpg 72w, https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads10\/2026\/06\/elobe_26-001067.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-171423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"display:block; color:#888; font-size:small; font-weight:normal;\">Canon EOS 7D Mark II (330mm, f\/5.6, 1\/400 sec, ISO6400)<br><\/span> Busskungen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>L\u00e4s massor om V\u00e5mhus hantcerkare, historia och v\u00e5mhusbornas s\u00e4regna spr\u00e5k, som h\u00e4rstammar fr\u00e5n fornnordiskan, p\u00e5 den h\u00e4r hemsidan fr\u00e5n 1995: <a title=\"Om V\u00e5mhus socken\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/v-sock\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/v-sock\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vid V\u00e5mhus kyrka st\u00e5r H\u00e5rkullan och Busskungen.\u00a0 Tv\u00e5 vackra statyer p\u00e5 m\u00e4nniskor som gjort V\u00e5mhus vida k\u00e4nt p\u00e5 lite olika vis. V\u00e5mhus \u00e4r ber\u00f6mt f\u00f6r sina h\u00e5rarbeten och korgmakeri. Dessa hantverk fick under 1800-talet och f\u00f6rsta h\u00e4lften av 1900-talet st\u00e5 f\u00f6r de extrainkomster som kr\u00e4vdes f\u00f6r att \u00f6verleva. Speciellt h\u00e5rkullorna vandrade med sina h\u00e5rarbeten till <a href='https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/2026\/06\/harkullan-och-busskungen\/' class='excerpt-more'>&#8230;L\u00e4s mer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,21,49],"tags":[258,326,1722,1594,112,951,70],"class_list":["post-171421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-singles","category-culture","category-summer","tag-eric-wickman","tag-greyhound","tag-harkullor","tag-korgmakare","tag-kultur","tag-midsommar","tag-vamhus","category-261-id","category-21-id","category-49-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171431,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171421\/revisions\/171431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildlifephotographer.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}