Swedish roots run deep (with video)

ROUND LAKE — Välkommen till Vihlen huset. That’s the Swedish phrase that might be used to welcome a visitor to the home of John and Vona Mae Vihlen in rural Round Lake. John is of 100 percent Swedish heritage — his four grandparents having emigrated from Sweden to the United States — while Vona Mae, although of German descent, is “Swedish by marriage.”