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| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Johnny's Pheasant Cheryl Minnema, 2019-11-01 An encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma Pull over, Grandma! Hurry!” Johnny says. Grandma does, and Johnny runs to show her what he spotted near the ditch: a sleeping pheasant. What Grandma sees is a small feathery hump. When Johnny wants to take it home, Grandma tries to tell him that the pheasant might have been hit by a car. But maybe she could use the feathers for her craftwork? So home with Grandma and Johnny the pheasant goes . . . It’s hard to say who is most surprised by what happens next—Grandma, Johnny, or the pheasant. But no one will be more delighted than the reader at this lesson about patience and kindness and respect for nature, imparted by Grandma’s gentle humor, Johnny’s happy hooting, and all the quiet wisdom found in Cheryl Minnema’s stories of Native life and Julie Flett’s remarkably evocative and beautiful illustrations. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Laman's River Mark Munger, 2012-03 A beautiful newspaper reporter is discovered bound, gagged, and dead. A Duluth judge conceals secrets that may end her career. A reclusive community of religious zealots seeks to protect its view of Heaven by unleashing an avenging angel upon the world. Follow Cook County Sheriff Deb Slater and FBI Special Agent Herb Whitefeather as they investigate murders stretching from Minnesota's canoe country to Montana's Big Belt Mountains.--Page 4 of cover. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: The Way She Told Her Story Diane Jarvenpa, 2018 While this is about about the Finnish immigrant experience, it's also the universal story of loss and hope of all who arrived in this country as strangers.--Kirsten Dierking. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Terraria Gigantica , 2017-10 In a new approach to environmental photography, Dana Fritz explores the world's largest enclosed landscapes: Arizona's Biosphere 2, Cornwall's Eden Project, and Nebraska's Lied Jungle and Desert Dome at the Henry Doorly Zoo. In these vivaria, plants are grown amid carefully constructed representations of the natural world to entertain and educate tourists while also supporting scientific research. Together, these architectural and engineering marvels stand as working symbols of our complex relationship with the environment. Giant terraria require human control of temperature, humidity, irrigation, insects, weeds, and other conditions to create otherwise impossible ecosystems. While technical demands inform the design of these spaces, the juxtapositions of natural and artificial elements generate striking visual paradoxes that can go unnoticed. Here Fritz turns away from visitors' prepared sight lines, revealing alternate views that dispel the illusion of natural conditions. Inviting questions about what it means to create and contain landscapes, Terraria Gigantica inspires contemplation of our ecological future. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Ice Ulla-Lena Lundberg, 2016-02-04 In the summer of 1947, a young priest, Petter, his wife and baby daughter, arrive by mail boat at a tiny island. They are to take over its drafty homestead from where Petter is to minister to the scattered community. In this evocative tale, Ulla-Lena Lundberg draws us into the minutiae of an austere yet purposeful life where the demands of self-sufficiency - cows to milk and sheep to graze - are tempered by the kindness of neighbours. With each season, the family's love of the island grows and when the winter brings ice a new and tentative link is created. Told through the eyes of Petter, the wholehearted if naive novice priest, and Mona, his tough-minded wife, a story unfolds that is as immersive as it is heartrending. Winner of the Finlandia prize and nominated for the Nordic Critics Prize, Ice was a huge bestseller in Finland. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Duck and Cover Mark Munger, 2021-09 A coming of age memoir set in a suburban neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota chronicling one boy's losses, loves, battles, struggles, and successes during the Cold War. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Boundweave Clotilde Barrett, 1982 |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Kotimaa Mark Munger, 2018-06-25 Immigrant Anders Alhomäki, introduced to readers in Munger's best selling novel Suomalaiset, returns in this prequel. Why did Anders leave his homeland? What dreams motivated him to journey from Finland to sub-Arctic Norway, northern Michigan, and the Vermillion Iron Range of Minnesota? How is Anders's story tied to that of a cold blooded assassin stalking a Finnish politician in modern day Finland? Don't miss this epic ride from the 1890s to Finland's Centennial Independence Day! |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Esther's Race Mark Munger, 2014-01-23 A contemporary novel of love, addiction, and race. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: My Friend Natalia Laura Lindstedt, 2022-04-19 Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. With this mesmerizing tale of one woman’s potent affliction, award-winning Finnish writer Laura Lindstedt makes her American debut. Narrated by an unnamed, ungendered therapist who leaps at the chance to employ their most experimental methods, My Friend Natalia offers a gripping examination of the power dynamics always present but rarely ever spoken about in therapy. “Something flared within me,” the therapist notes, “and it wasn’t merely sympathy, the emotion I feel for most of my clients. It was more like a sudden experience of harmony, wholly inappropriate given the circumstances.” It is clear from the moment Natalia barges into her new therapist’s office that she has motives beyond simply fixing her sex life. She is quick to mention that the same exact painting hanging on the therapist’s wall—an abstract piece titled Ear-Mouth—once hung in her grandmother’s living room. This comment deeply unsettles the therapist, as does the large alarm clock that Natalia brings with her, intent on timing the sessions herself. And the tape recorder. At first, Natalia seems to play along with the rules of therapy. She partakes in the therapist’s pain-displacement exercises, word games, and even produces a few anatomical illustrations. She muses on the art of pornography, and boldly examines seminal figures like Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, about whom she poses the question, “Did Jean-Paul consider Simone a woman at all? Or was she nothing but a pencil sharpener?” By combining philosophy and literature, repressed childhood memories and explicitly unrepressed erotic experiences, the sessions quickly shed all inhibitions. Still, the therapist can’t help but wonder: What does Natalia really want? Brilliantly translated by the award-winning David Hackston, My Friend Natalia buzzes in prose charged with sharp banter and double entendres as the therapist hurls strange—and hilarious—experimental exercises at Natalia, and their work builds to an explosive climax. In taking a deconstructive yet utterly scintillating approach to the self-help narratives of our time, Laura Lindstedt emerges as a rare and unflinching international literary talent. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: The Artist's Rule Christine Valters Paintner, 2011-07-11 Christine Valters Paintner, author of Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire, invites readers to discover and develop their creative gifts in a spirit of prayer and reflection. This twelve-week course draws on the insights and practices of Benedictine spirituality to explore the interplay between contemplation and creativity. Summarized in the phrase pray and work, The Rule of St. Benedict provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintner's newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and creative expression. Artists of all stripes and stations in life--poets or painters, potters or photographers--will discover how traditions of Benedictine, Celtic, and desert spirituality can offer new sources of inspiration for their work. Through this twelve-week course, themes like Sacred Tools and Sacred Space, Creative Solitude and Community, and Nature as a Source of Revelation and Inspiration are enriched by Paintner's perceptive discussion and enhanced by insightful quotations from well-known artists and writers. Each week offers suggestions for grounding both the creative and the spiritual life through three basic practices: walking, lectio divina, and journaling. In sync with Paintner's vibrant Internet presence, The Artist's Rule is supplemented with online resources, including guided meditation podcasts, video lessons, and discussions. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Suomalaiset Mark Munger, 2013 |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Mittens, Mittens, and More Mittens! Laura Maryon, 1998 Is a tribute to the strength and wholesomeness of the family. A grandmother's courage that helped her overcome her handicap and build family tradition for Christmas. A beautifully illustrated book. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: The Book of Guys Garrison Keillor, 1995 |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Spirit of the Ojibwe Sara Balbin, Thelma Nayquonabe, James R. Bailey, 2005 Spirit of the Ojibwe is an intimate gathering of oral biographies and stunning color portraits of 32 Lac Courte Oreilles Indian elders painted by artist Sara Balbin. Their tribal history, told in story and image, is a compelling tale of how one people courageously adapted and triumphed over cultural oppression, broken government treaties, and the deliberate flooding of their reservation by the Wisconsin-Minnesota Power and Light Company. First settled in the Lac Courte Oreilles region of northwestern Wisconsin in the 1740s, the Lac Courte Oreilles tribe is today one of the most progressive native groups in the United States. This is a people who still live close to nature's rhythms, and these stories reveal their tribal history, traditions, migrations, spiritual practices, and clan structure. The tribal elders, such as James Pipe Mustache, are keepers of knowledge and never stop teaching. Mustache is one of many who were brought up in the original Indian way of the early 1900s, lived well into the modern age, and transmitted wisdom to today's elders or to anyone else who would listen patiently. Cuban-born visual artist Sara Balbin has for the past 25 years painted portraits of Ojibwe elders from the Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa tribe. She operates Dragonfly Studio near Drummond, Wisconsin. Thelma Nayquonabe is currently the director of the Work-Based Learning Program at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College. James R. Bailey is currently a reporter for News from Indian Country and Ojibwe Akiing, For seven years, he was the development director of WOJB, the Lac Courte Oreilles' 100,000-watt public radio station. David Scott Bisonette teaches Ojibwelanguage and culture and is currently interim division chair of the Native American studies program at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Around the Year Tasha Tudor, 2012-06-26 Everyone loves a celebration, and renowned illustrator Tasha Tudor offers one for every month in this enchanting treasury of seasons. Come enter a world where sledding excursions melt into summer picnics, and autumn fairs beckon Christmas cheer. This eBook with audio is to be enjoyed around the year! |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Songs of the Finnish Migration Thomas A. Dubois, B. Marcus Cederström, 2020-03-10 Songs of the Finnish Migration presents music and lyrics for more than eighty Finnish-language immigrant songs, alongside singable English translations and detailed notes on migration history and music in the New World. These songs provide a vivid and imaginative portrayal of momentous migration that forever changed Finnish and Finnish American society. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Practicing Ethnography Lynda Mannik, Karen McGarry, 2017-11-20 This methods book is theoretically informed but practical in approach, and reflects the challenges and concerns of contemporary ethnography in North America. The authors emphasize an inductive, ethnographic approach to research. Each chapter offers an overview of a particular method, methodological issue, or research trend, followed by an extended ethnographic vignette--written exclusively for this volume--by contemporary anthropologists about their fieldwork experiences. These highly readable vignettes showcase how ethnography informs contemporary anthropological theory, offering a unique way to discuss major concepts, methods, and methodologies. Try This and Possible Projects sections encourage newcomers to anthropology to apply what they have learned in their own ethnographic experiences. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Migrations Sheila Packa, 2011 Features of the work of 75 Lake Superior area and northern Minnesota writers. Each poem or essay captures a moment of change, ranging from having a new baby to the death of a loved one. Some writers have written about aging, children growing up, illness, bird migration, leaving a relationship, moving through violence, and also actual migration, and moving back and forth from Minnesota to work in Antarctica. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Writing the Novella Sharon Oard Warner, 2021-03 Winner of the Bronze Medal for Writing/Publishing in the 2022 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards A novella compresses the world with a short story's focus, but it explores that smaller space with a novel's generosity.--Josh Weil, author of The New Valley: Novellas While the novella has existed as a distinct literary form for over four hundred years, Writing the Novella is the first craft book dedicated to creating this intermediate-length fiction. Innovative, integrated journal prompts inspire and sustain the creative process, and classic novellas serve as examples throughout. Part 1 defines the novella form and steers early decision-making on situation, character, plot, and point of view. Part 2 provides detailed directions for writing the scenic plot points that support a strong but flexible narrative arc. Appendix materials include a list of recommended novellas, publishing opportunities, and blank templates for the story map, graphs, and charts used throughout the book. By turns instructive and inspirational, Writing the Novella will be a welcome resource for new and experienced writers alike. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: History of the Finns in Michigan Armas Kustaa Ensio Holmio, 2001 A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Home Front in the American Heartland Patty Sotirin, Steven A. Walton, Sue Collins, 2020-05-28 This collection offers a multifaceted exploration of World War One and its aftermath in the northern American Heartland, a region often overlooked in wartime histories. The chapters feature archival and newspaper documentation and visual imagery from this era. The first section, “Heartland Histories,” explores experiences of conscription and home front mobilization in the small communities of the heartland, highlighting tensions associated with patriotism, class, ethnicities, and locale. In one chapter, the previously unpublished cartoon art of a USAF POW displays his Midwestern sensibilities. Section Two, “Homefront Propaganda,” examines the cultural networks disseminating national war messages, notably the critical work of local theaters, Four Minute Men, the Allied War Exhibitions, and the local commemorative displays of military relics. Section Three, “Gender in/and War,” highlights aspects often over-shadowed by male experiences of the war itself, including the patriotic mother, androgynous representations in wartime propaganda, and masculine violence following the war. Together, this volume provides rich portraits of the complexities of heartland home front experiences and legacies. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Alvar Aalto, Designer Pirkko Tuukkanen, 2002 Alvar Aalto is recognized today as one of the great masters of modern architecture. His architecture is distinctly Finnish. It is marked by humanity and strong individuality. This book is the first comprehensive illustrated book on the designs of Aalto. Articles written by experts will shed light on many aspects of his wide-ranging scope as a designer of furniture, glass, and light fittings. The book also contains an illustrated catalogue of Aalto's best-known designs and their variations. Aalto's contribution to modernism has truly inspired and has been a catalyst for the world. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: In the Hands of the Fisherman T. J. Swanson, 2016-11-22 On a quiet night in early 1996, Bob Sorenson finds himself alone as he skis the Luce Line Trail--a former rail road grade turned multi-use trail in the prairie of western Minnesota. His friends are somewhere ahead in the deepening dark, but his thoughts lay somewhere else. As Bob travels the trail, trying to catch up with his buddies, the solitude sends his mind wandering into the past, to warm summers with his family--and one particularly cold day fishing with his father. Tales of angleworms, sunfish, and an all but forgotten uncle warm the cold night, but as the temperature continues to drop, Bob's memories won't protect him from the Minnesota winter. Bob isn't the only one whose midwinter travels could have a bad outcome. A missed turn off the trail leads him to a discovery that propels Bob out of the past and into the present as his friends join him in unravelling the mystery. Based on actual events, In the Hands of the Fisherman is equal parts introspection and adventure.--Amazon.com. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Human Directional Diane Raptosh, 2016 Following her big hit, American Amnesiac, Raptosh's Human Directional zigzags across consciousness, searing through old patterns of thought and offering. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Begin with a Bee Liza Ketchum, Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Phyllis Root, 2021-05-18 Begin with a Bee and its story of the life of one queen bee, a rusty-patched bumblebee, teaches us not only about bees but also about our own responsibilities in the natural world By looking closely at the life cycle of one bee, Begin with a Bee helps readers of all ages understand and appreciate the contributions and significance of all bees. The life cycle of the rusty-patched bumblebee is a tale of wonder, the adventure of one queen bee who carries an entire colony of bees inside her tiny body. Her story begins in the spring when she emerges from a hole in the ground to search for pollen. She finds a nest, underground best, lays a few eggs, and seals them in pollen. All summer this single queen lays more eggs, and more worker bees hatch. They gather pollen and maintain the colony until next year's queen hatches in the fall. The queen bee's life unfolds through Claudia McGehee's captivating illustrations. The authors--three beloved and prolific writers of award-winning children's books--impart the poetry and basic science of the rusty-patched bumblebee, the first bee to appear on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Endangered Species list. Extensive commentary at the end of the book offers suggestions for being a friend to bees as well as a good citizen of the natural world. It also introduces the native plants that bumblebees need for survival. Begin with a Bee might inspire a child (or any of us) to seek out, identify, even cultivate these essential flowers--and participate in the next chapter in the story of all bumblebees. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Swimming with a Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle Freya Manfred, 2008 Poetry. Freya Manfred always startles me by how close she gets to everything she sees. That's her tough luck, but it makes her a wonderful poet--Philip Roth. |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Finnish Immigrants in America, 1880-1920 Arthur William Hoglund, 1979-01-01 |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Wild Verge Lynette Reini-Grandell, 2018 What's wild about these poems is the poet's unlimited powers of imagination, projecting her persona into childhood memories, fairy tales, her mother's womb, the animal kingdom, et al |
| finnfest 2023 duluth mn: Finnish Architecture 2010 - 2011 , 2012 The fifth biennial review of Finnish architecture offers a richer variety of perspectives than ever before. It is designed to interest the general public and make architecture accessible to a wider audience. In addition to the traditional exhibition and catalogue, this year's featured projects are also be presented on web and mobile platforms. The catalogue provides a visually inspiring introduction to the projects and their architects. Also included is a calendar of architectural events and four expert essays contributed by Netta Böök, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Juhani Pallasmaa and Huseyin Yanar. Exhibition: Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, Finland (6.6.-30.9.2012) |
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