Kommentaarid on kirjutatud EWR lugejate poolt. Nende sisu ei pruugi ühtida EWR toimetuse seisukohtadega.
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Hi Justin,
This is Sean Flinn writing you. I've been enjoying your correspondence under the "Itching for Eestimaa" banner.
I like that you've immersed in the culture of your wife (I believe that's the case). My mother's family is Estonian (making me half-Estonian I guess) and have been working on a series of articles over the past few years, delving into my relationship with our grandmother (Laine Suksdorf), to whom we were very close (she died in 2006), and our grandfather, a major influence on us despite the fact he died in 1963 (seven years before I was born). And through both of them to Estonia and Estonian culture.
A major aspect of all my writing has been the fact that the Suksdorfs made two crossings (Eesti/Sweden, Sweden/Canada) with my grandfather as captain for both. They arrived in Halifax, where I now live since leaving Toronto in 2002, in early Aug. 1949 - 60 years ago. The ship was called the Parnu (missing the accent on the 'a' of course). In fact, if you know of anyone whose family may have travelled aboard, I'd love to hear from them. I've talked to several already, including my mother.
I'm doing final revisions on a book manuscript related to all this after an initial round of reading/editing.
Do you have an email address I could contact you at to set up some time to talk by phone? I'm trying to bank as many interviews as I can, whether they're for background only or direct quotation.
I work as a journalist here and work from home so my time is flexible.
All best in this young year,
Sean
This is Sean Flinn writing you. I've been enjoying your correspondence under the "Itching for Eestimaa" banner.
I like that you've immersed in the culture of your wife (I believe that's the case). My mother's family is Estonian (making me half-Estonian I guess) and have been working on a series of articles over the past few years, delving into my relationship with our grandmother (Laine Suksdorf), to whom we were very close (she died in 2006), and our grandfather, a major influence on us despite the fact he died in 1963 (seven years before I was born). And through both of them to Estonia and Estonian culture.
A major aspect of all my writing has been the fact that the Suksdorfs made two crossings (Eesti/Sweden, Sweden/Canada) with my grandfather as captain for both. They arrived in Halifax, where I now live since leaving Toronto in 2002, in early Aug. 1949 - 60 years ago. The ship was called the Parnu (missing the accent on the 'a' of course). In fact, if you know of anyone whose family may have travelled aboard, I'd love to hear from them. I've talked to several already, including my mother.
I'm doing final revisions on a book manuscript related to all this after an initial round of reading/editing.
Do you have an email address I could contact you at to set up some time to talk by phone? I'm trying to bank as many interviews as I can, whether they're for background only or direct quotation.
I work as a journalist here and work from home so my time is flexible.
All best in this young year,
Sean
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0Hi Sean,
My contacts are in the profile section of my blog.
My contacts are in the profile section of my blog.
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0If you were to rip out a famous statue from the precincts of one of Toronto's ethnic enclaves, it would cause indignation and distress galore within that community. There are a good number of reasons why the bronze soldier could have stayed where it originally was, and it would have made no difference whatsoever to the future of Estonia's progress. Fact is that Estonia was unwise in undertaking the move, which has put the country under the same spell as what the Vietnam war has done for the USA. Estonia has ideologically lost considerably more than it has won these past couple of years.
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0Well said.
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