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Reel 4 cont. 10/9/80 sound tech - Steve Geer [Green\

2:40 protein scarce - taller children near water - 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 fish + vegs. diparately milk & potatoes- sinkers made of birch bark woven around rock - small fish go thru holes in net - Finnish trees left good trees to seed cut bad trees for fire wood. 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 [?]? 6+ land in W. Minn. grandfather - come from Lapland - Reindeer herder - came to this country (Mich.)worked in copper mines - contrast of outdoors to confinement - prairie - house 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 - Kapelela[?] pole -?
book will be $3.95 + $1 handling - 
-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-accordion - Larry Sauko (?) [Larry H. Saukko]
TAPE RESUME
3:13 1. "Vagabond Waltz" vocal - acc.plyr.
3:18 2. "Maid's Polka" written in Minn. Elmer hampa[?] - words about Finnish - Finglish
3:21 3. "Johnny Boy's Bday Dance" instrumental (dance)
3:24 4. 
Intro of band - 3row button box - -SI-FP-1880-RR-113
Reel #5 Explanation of picture - photo- Delaware fins - Minnesota summer - Reel #5 - Sound Tech - Steve Green
3:30[+/-] 5. Ratico Lake Superior Area - East Mich-urbanization of Fins
3:36 6. Vagabond Mazourka - pop. dance in E. Europe - starts in minor ends major Logger - Gloria Throne
3:40 7. On a Beautiful Summer's Evening - vocal - Larry
3:44 8.
9. Rowing on the River
3:4850 10. My Homeland is Finland emotion song - Vocal - Larry [Larry H. Saukko]
3:51 11. Boys from Karelia
3:53 12. Horah Hoy (?)song about a bar 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 and Jeanne
4:00 1. Finnish heard as children -
     2. Marimeras: Polka - instrumental
4:07 3. Orphan Boy waltz-
4. Gypsy Song - Len on mandolin; Greg vocal; no accordion
5. Raatikko - Len and Jeanne dancing; other two playing
6. (Schotlische) Man singing about girl he left behind "Ah if I could hold her one more time."
Greg + Jeanne on vocal; Len on banjo
7. Song with no name, passed down by elders "Finnish Polka" for want of another name.
Len on banjo
8. Life in the Finnish Woods - Len on banjo
9. Passing an old girlfriend's house + reminiscing - Len on guitar; Gregg vocal only
(incomplete)