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And any other things. Okay, then we'll go onto the next phase of it. We talked about skiing. Now, to have a good ski trail, you had to find a way of making it. So naturally, they developed the system of snow-shoeing. We didn't, the Indians did, I think. But being that they were these Finnish people, their mode of travel was by foot, the best way they knew how. So you'd cut a trail into your trapping area with a pair of snowshoes and that same distance you could cover in half the time than what you could on original pair of snow shoes. And during this time that you'd be on your trapping run or trapping or traveling, you always tried to keep the trail open, so you had a good trail to ski on, then you could make it really fast. In other words, it would average I would say- used to take us 12 minutes to go to school and that was two and a half miles. So I don't know if that's any record breaking but there's a lot of downhill on there and just a small amount of uphill. It used to take us 14 minutes to get home. And we liked to be home in 14 minutes because my mother usually had a hot cup of coffee and maybe some fresh bread and maybe this Finnish pancake they're making there. And that was our beginning of our day for that evening and then we have to go out and clean the barn, milk the cows, and then go back into your method of what you were doing. If you had time in the evening you'd run out and set your traps or check your traps and then come home and maybe you'd have to churn butter or clean butter or whatever it happened to be. You'd have to do that in the evening. And our system out there was there wasn't too much money exchanged. It was mostly bartering. And in our neighborhood we had a blacksmith, a butcher, there was a horse trainer, there was a man that was pretty well in taking care of calls, there was a veterinarian, a type of veterinarian. The health department of the State of Minnesota took that man into court for being a practicing veterinarian without a license because he never was. He was no more than just about what a midwife would be nowadays but I guess midwives have to be licensed now I think. So this - the area is, and the most of the people that wound up in the back woods or in the bush as they call it would be caused by the mining companies in 1916 had a big strike. So many people got blackballed in the mines which were indentured people from Finland and Yugoslavia and quite a few of them who were indentured to this country. And then the strike came on and they were blackballed from the mines, they couldn't get back in the mines. Well then they went into the woods and this is the way they made their living. And a lot of them then moved in after that, they moved into the area and started developing their farms. And they bought land or homesteaded the land and started farming. And this area still has a lot of log cabins on it. It has some new homesteads. In the last 20 years I think it's gotten a lot of homesteads on it. But a lot of the tradition that we have is still there. The folklore and the tradition is there.

Transcription Notes:
few things I couldn't understand but I think it got it all