Here's
what you will find In the January-March
2002 (Winter)
issue of the New World
Finn
This issue is available
for $5.00 from: New World Finn, PO Box 432, Cedar Grove WI 53013
On Page 4 in her column "Kotinurkka",
Sargit Sohlberg Warriner remembers what it was like to play in the snow
when she was seven years old...especially the joy of skiing in a park
in Helsinki.
On Page 5 you can read about the history of the
Finnish markka, and about the changeover to the euro - the new coin
of twelve of the European nations, including Finland.
 On Page 6 Katriina Honkanen - singer, songwriter,
actress - says, "When I get the feeling that people understand
what I'm singing of, it's really a great feeling. Quite often I get
this feeling - I'm sure that if you give what you've got to give, people
will understand. And then you can tell your stories endlessly.".
Read Carol Pärssinen's (on the left) interview with Katriina (on
the right). Listen to a song by Katriina at http://www.kantele.com/katriina.html
On Page 7 read about a 30 something Duluth musician
- Barry Pirkola. He's also a very fine artist, and he will also soon
tear apart and rebuild an old car. He says it is "a rite of passage
for a Pirkola male is to tear apart and rebuild a car". You can
also hear his music by going to Barry
Pirkola
 Did you know that the name "Finland"
may have originated with Adam of Bremen, the eleventh century
bishop of Germany, Scandinavia, and "Finis"? Read what
Anselm Hollo has to say about that and the Vikings in Finland
on page 8. That's Anselm on the right.
Oren Tikkanen writes about Ruth-Esther Hillila, Martti Pokela, and Arto
Rinne on Pages 10 and 11.
Why did the Japanese offer Otto
Heino one million dollars for a pottery glaze? Why is he  negotiating
with the Chinese for one billion dollars? And why did the FBI
mess up his pottery shop? You can find out all that and a whole
lot more on Page 12. The smiling man on the right is Otto.
 Lynn Laitala was the editor of New World
Finn for two years. Throughout all those months - and also the
many years during which she edited the Finnish American Reporter
- she never found the time for one of her true loves, writing
fiction. Now you can read one of her old stories in this issue
on Page 14. After you do, you will probably want to buy her new
book "Down From Basswood". That's Lynn on the left.
On the back page of this issue
of the New World Finn, you can read a simple poem by Nils-Aslak
Valkeapää, a Sámi well loved by many Finns.
On Page 17 we have re-published a talk he gave a few years ago
in Minneapolis. Many of us will miss this kind man who died last
November. The picture on the right was taken in the middle 90's.
 Emil
Hurja (on the left) worked for FDR, and was the first of our
modern pollsters. Melvin Holli has written a book about him.
We have an excerpt on page 20.
On Page 22 is an excerpt from
"Rosalia" a book published in 1942 about Rosa Lemberg,
one of the great women of Finnish America.
Three Americans of Finnish descent
that have made an impact in our community and outside of it passed
on recently. The obituaries of Alden Lind, Irja Hanson, and Ruth-Esther
Hillila are on page 24.
Richard Impola was praised in the Helsingin Sanomat for his translation
of Väinö Liina's "Under the North Star". See page
24.
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