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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)