Family and friends are everything. Here's a little tribute.
My wife Elina keeps the "show" running at home. Twin boys Arttu and Perttu were born in June 2001 and Viljo was born in Dec 2004.
March 2, 2013
"The forest echoes back the way you address it" was something you taught me.
On Saturday we heard the gently echoes of silent gratitude.
- 1949 Atte Korhonen. 1948 Heikki Korhonen, my great grandfather worked also at the railroads, he was born Heikki Korppoo, in Orivesi.
- 1943 Where
should one start from? Atte worked for the Finnish railways also
during WWII.
- 1928 Atte's 5-tube home brew Neutrodyne receiver.
ancestors back to the 1550s, which is the furthest back in time you can go in Finland.
- 1920s Reino Tuominen (later Korpela), my grandfather,
he owned a truck in the 1920s but lost it in "the liquer-rally" during the
1930's depression.
When his family moved to the Korpela-farm in Vampula in 1946; they changed their family name, which was common in those days. - 1915 Kalle and Martti Kuusisto; Great uncles.
Pictured by Martti Ryti in Huittinen. Kalle served the military; great-uncle
Martti drove a truck. great-uncle Kalle lived to be 100.
