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14 The Kantele Shop Emails of appreciation: Hello Gerry, I just got back from vacation, and the kantele and bag were both waiting for me. The very night I got it, I brought it to a friend’s party and played Happy Birthday on it for her! Thank you so much for your “Guide for 5 and 10 String Kanteles” on your web site. That is very helpful for getting started. Now that I’ve started experimenting with chording, I am pleasantly shocked at how intuitive this instrument is. I have a music degree, but find right away there is little need for it - your fingers just kind of find the sound you want to hear. I had thought the 10string would be a “baby” instrument until I could get a “real” large one, but I see the 10-string is perfectly adequate for a tremendous amount of music! Thank you, M.F. – Chapel Hill, N.C Gerry, T h a n k you f o r t h e b e a u t i f u l instrument! It has such a wonderful, full sound...such resonance! Being a bit of a woodworker myself, I truly appreciate the fine craftsmanship. I will treasure this kantele, and am glad that I was able to order it from you. Warm regards, L Pike www.kantele.com 1541 Clover Valley Dr Duluth MN 55804 218-525-7609 Diane Jarvi’s newest recording is Wild Gardens Also available: Paper Heart, Foreign Winds, Revontuli, and Flying Into Blue $15.00 per CD $1.50 shipping Send Orders to: Lupine Records PO Box 19274 Mpls., MN 55419 FINLANDIA FOUNDATION ® NATIONAL Past Issues of New World Finn Still Available New World Finn was published monthly through September, 2001. A few copies of each of the following issues are still available for purchase. 1999: August, October, November, December 2000: January, February, March, April, June, July, August- September, October, November, December 2001: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August-September Quarterly issues were published beginning in October 2001. 2001: Vol. 2 October-December (No. 4) 2002: Vol. 3 Nos. 1, 3, 4 2003: Vol. 4 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 2004: Vol. 5 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 2005: Vol, 6 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 2006: Vol. 7 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 2007: Vol. 8 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 2008: Vol. 9 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 2009: Vol.10 Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 Finlandia Foundation ® National ® To purchase copies of these past issues, contact New World Finn’s business office: email: nev@fastermac.net phone: 920-668-8888 NEW WORLD FINN TAMMIKUU - HELMIKUU - MAALISKUU • 2009 TALVI
Name Street/Address The Journey Ahead to the New Year By Anni Putikka Translated by Ivy Nevala “It Surely Was Easier in the Early Days!” We didn’t have: supplemental child payments, pensions, rent assistance We just had: our own work, help from neighbors. accusations, and the poor house. We didn’t have: TV, stereo, Nintendo, or VHF We just had: village musicians, bands, youth choirs and drama clubs, athletic groups, and the village library. News was spread by the tube radio, the regional newspaper, and the village gossips. We didn’t have: alcohol and other drug treatments clinics, mental health clinics, misuse of alcohol, drug sniffing dogs, work regulations We just had: drunks, despondent drinkers, village nuts, those brought to the insane asylum, and the lazy, who were called lazy. We didn’t have: bureaucrats, adjustable interest, dividends. junk bonds We just had: the rich and the poor, and those who didn’t have anything. We didn’t have: diseases of the circulatory system, psychoses, syndromes, dementia, or lactose intolerance. We just had: the weaknesses of aging and senility, hip problems and rheumatism. We didn’t have to linger and died because of old age, accidents, chest or head diseases. The above was submitted by Anni Putikka from Teuvan Joulu, 2006, along with the following article: What are one’s first thoughts about the year’s beginning and end? In the beginning of the year, the end seemed far away, but now that the year is coming to a close, it seems to have gone quickly. But I’ll be writing about my childhood years. Our elders believed in the Bible’s admonition, “Those who don’t work don’t have to eat.” One’s bread was honored, men took off their caps at the table, thanks were given to God, and the young took on the habits of their elders. Children learned to work from the time they were small, taking care of younger children. Apparently I was a dependable child, because when I was just two years old, Mother left me with my baby sister when Mother had to do the barn chores. She checked on us occasionally. Once she found me with my sister’s pacifier in my mouth, sleeping in my own bed. Another time I had climbed onto the table without breaking any of New World Finn Subscription Form City State or Prov. Zip - I would like to contribute an additional $______________ (A free subscription accompanies each $100 donated.) You may publish my name as a donor: Yes:___ No:___ One Year U.S. - $22 • Two Year U.S. $40 First Class U.S. - $28 • -One Year Canada - $36 (Canadian dollars) International (Finland, etc.) - $36 (US dollars) A subscription mak a good gift--one that will keep on giving all year! the dishes set out there and sat there looking at the sugar bowl, a wedding gift for my parents. I now have that sugar bowl. I gave the same responsibility to my own children, not even thinking about doing anything differently. When I was eight, I walked behind the horse tilling the field, while Father spread manure. Then when the field was ready, he sowed the seeds by hand and I again had to cover the seed. Driving the horse developed my muscles and by the time I was ten, I was able to milk. In fact, when my parents had to be away, they depended on me to do the milking and prepare a meal. Of course, Grandma was close by, available to help. After school there were child care and chores such as carrying firewood into the house and into the barn. When my sister was old enough, we did the chores together. Father made our skis, and after they were finished, he heated tar until it was fluid and penetrated the wood. Then he built a fire in the snow, and when the wood created a roaring fire, heated the skis, applying more tar as it dried, while we enjoyed the fire in the darkening evening, breathing the aroma of the tar. Then wax was spread on top of the tarred bottoms. Of course, we needed poles too, so he put a sharp point on the end of the pole so we could grip ice and hard snow. The poles were finished with strips of rubber and leather, for us to hold on to the poles. The first time we skied to school on our skis, we were almost tardy, so we jumped off our skis, carrying them and running the rest of the way. On the way home, there was no hurry, so we had time to get used to skiing. After we made a trail across the fields, the trip became much shorter and a lot of fun as we learned to speed along. At home it was time to brush the snow off the skis so they were ready for the morning’s journey. In the morning, after a breakfast of boiled potatoes and pork gravy, we left for school, with probably a sandwich in our knapsacks along with our books, because at that time there was no school lunch program. During recess we had fun playing in the snow on the small hill behind the school. When the bell rang, girls and boys lined up in separate rows, all with rosy red cheeks. When we were children we couldn’t be all thumbs (peukalo keskellä kämmentä). Because Grandma’s sister had a hat factory, she sewed caps for us, and when I was old enough, I got the patterns and made both winter and summer caps for my sister and me. I was quite young when my aunt taught me to crochet, doll clothes at first and later bed covers. Then I was taught to knit mittens and sock. Evenings went by fast, chores and schoolwork taking so much time there wasn’t much left for handwork. Later still, it was time to learn to card and spin wool, spin linen, and weave both into fabrics. This season reminds me that in the winter the red mountain ash berries remained on the tree after the leaves fell, and it was fun watching the birds eating them. Every fall Father left some oats unthreshed and on Christmas eve made a sheaf of them for the birds. We delighted in seeing them eating the oats and feeling sorry for them for having to be out in the cold. Christmastime we enjoyed skiing on the sparkling clean snow and often stopped to admire the beauty of the surroundings the Lord had created for us. Let’s remember to stop our rushing and not be blind to nature. Let’s enjoy the beauty before we are old and gray-haired! Nazi Himmler Was Enthusiastic About Karelia and the Finnish Kantele Finnish anthropologist Yrjö von Grönhagen met German SS leader Heinrich Himmler in 1937 at Himmler’s home, along with German music researcher Fritz Bose. The scientists were led into Himmler’s study, and they were surprised at what they saw. Hanging on the wall of the study was a copy of a photograph that had recently been taken by Grönhagen, of Timo Lipitsä, a Karelian runonlaulaja, or “poem singer”. The photo, which had been given to Himmler a year earlier, hung over Himmler’s desk as if it were an icon. Von Grönhagen (1911-2003) and Bose (1909-1975) brought new gifts from Karelia. The Nazi leader was especially enthusiastic about the kantele, a traditional Finnish stringed instrument. Bose played for him, and the kantele was given to Himmler, who immediately ordered ten more for the SS. The information is from a book by author Heather Pringle, The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust, which was recently translated into Finnish. The work by a respected Canadian writer of popular science touches upon Finland and the other Nordic Countries, especially the rock paintings in Sweden’s Bohuslän Province, while describing in detail the activities of the Third Reich’s Ahnenerbe research institute. Ahnenerbe, or Deutches Ahnenerbe, Studiengesellschaft für Geistesurgeschichte (“Study society for primordial intellectual history, German Ancestral Heritage”), was established in 1935 for the stated purpose of studying the legacy of Germany’s Aryan forefathers. Its real purpose was to create myths. According to Pringle, its leading researchers dedicated themselves to falsifying the truth, and to churning out carefully tailored information to support the racial doctrines of Adolf Hitler. Ahnenerbe was interested in Finland and Karelia in the early phase of its activities - specifically through the activities of Yrjö von Grönhagen, who was born in St. Petersburg. A Frankfurt newspaper published Grönhagen’s article on the Kalevala, and soon a meeting with Himmler was arranged. Himmler also wrote a greeting into his travel diary: “Germans and Finns always remember that they once had the same fathers.” Grönhagen and Fritz Bose made a research expedition into Russian Karelia in 1936, taking along the illustrator Ola Forssell. Grönhagen returned to Karelia again in 1937 and 1938, alone both times. The intense interest that Himmler felt toward the Nordic region as a target of research irritated Hitler: “It is bad enough that the Romans built magnificent buildings while our forefathers were still living in clay huts; now Himmler is starting to dig up these clay hut villages, and gets excited about every fragment of a clay pot, and every stone axe that he happens to find”, Hitler once said to Albert Speer. By Pirkko Kotirinta HS Mail to: Ivy Nevala, Treasurer New World Finn PO Box 432 Cedar Grove, WI 53013 JANUARY - FEBRUARY - MARCH • 2010 WINTER NEW WORLD FINN 15
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