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Reel 4 cont. 10/9/80 sound tech - Steve Green 2:40 protein scarce - taller children near waters - fish available - net. salt fish down - board on top - soak & boil salt out of fish - meat made into sausage - wagon team of horses 2 days to go fishing - Springtime - Gather fish. fish [[boullia?]] but my folks didn't make that - they boiled boiled fish & vegs. separately milk & potatoes - sinkers made of birch bark woven arnd rock - small fish got thru holes in net - Finnish trees left good trees to seed cut bad trees for firewood * Finnish people aren't extravagant "pinch a nickel till the Indian rides the buffalo"*lumber men came in & cut good trees & left the bad - grandfather mad at logging companies - left & went to be blacksmith in [[car barns?]] ? Bt land in W. Minn. grandfather - came from Lapland - Reindeer herder -came to this country - (Mich) worked in copper mines - contrast of outdoors to confinement - [[prasier?]] horses Alaska - expediter - deer died because lack of reindeer moss - none over 5'3" tall but stood tall in the world - Eastertime - follow sheep - X river - get on island - keep wolves away from baby deer - Kapelala pole - ? [[image: y shaped stick, top of one short branch of the 'y' is labeled 'meat', annotated]] meat - wolves get foot caught in crutch of tree - 2:55 - TAPE OFF - Presenter: John Berquist fiddle - Alex Hietala 3:00 Concert - mandolin - John Berquist button accordian - Larry Sauko (?) [Larry H. Saukko] TAPE RESUMES 3:13 1. "Vagabond Waltz" vocal - ac. plyr 3:18 2. "Maid's Polka" written in Minn. Elmer Lampa - words [[arent?]] Finnish - Finglish 3:21 3. "Johnny Boy's B'day Dance" instrumental (dance) 3:24 4. Reel #5 Intro of band - 3 row button box - Explanation of picture - photo - Delaware Fins - Minnesota Summer - Reel #5 - Sound Tech 3:30 +/- 5. Ratigo Lake Superior Orca - East Mid. - urbanization of Fins 3:36 6. Vagabond Mazourka - pop. dance [[is?]] E. Europe - [[plants?]] in minor ends major Logger - GloriaThrone 3:40 7. On a Beautiful Summers Evening = Vocal - Larry [Larry H. Saukko] 3:44 8. 9. Rowing on the River 3:4850 10. My Homeland is Finland emotional song - vocal - Larry.[Larry H. Saukko] 3:51 11. Boys from Karelia 3:53 12. Horah Hoy (?) song about a ban vocal - Larry [Larry H. Saukko\ - short break to set up for dancers - FOLK DANCING DEMO - banjo and mandolin; guitar - Leonard Sarri piano accordion - Wesley Santa fiddle - Jeanne Santa Doty guitar - Greg Santa vocal - Greg + Jeanne 4:00 1. Finnish heard as children - 2. Marimeras: Poeka - instrumental 4:07 3. Orphan Boy waltz - 4. Gypsy Song - Len on mandolin; Greg vocal; no accordion 5. Raatikko - Len+Jeanne dancing; other two playing 6. (Schotlische) Man swinging about girl he left behind "Ah if I could hold her one more time." Greg+Jeanne vocal; Len on banjo 7. Song with no name, passed down by elders "Finnish Polka" for want of another name. 8. Life in the Finnish Woods - Len on banjo 9. Passing an old girlfriend's house + reminiscing - Len on guitar; Gregg vocal only (incomplete)