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  A highly successful International Christmas Market was held at the Chicago Eesti Maja (CEM). Nearly 400 people passed through the seven-hour event held on the first cold weekend of the season. It consisted of approximately 40 vendors selling their wares while numerous groups provided live entertainment. It was perhaps...

Arne Kalm: Notes For Panel DiscussionEstonians in America: Past, Present and FutureEANC, Stamford, CT  - Sat. Sept. 27, 2014   Introduction I am delighted to participate on this panel and plan to devote most of my allotted time to a  historical review of past political activities in the broader Estonian...

Publication of the English-language translation of the“DP Kroonika” (“DP Chronicle”), reported (Oct. 30 English language section) by Enda Mai Michelson Holland, president of the Estonian Archives in the U.S., is welcome news.   The book is a monumental history of Estonian displaced persons in Germany after World War II, and...

Kaido Ole   Estonian artist Kaido Ole is represented in a new exhibition titled “100 Painters of Tomorrow”, which opened at the One Art Space gallery in New York. The exhibit will move to London at the end of the month with a catalog also due out.   The exhibit...

Tallinn Old Town.   Photo from Internet   The New York Times reports that the historic decor of Tallinn's Old Town is attracting an increasing number of foreign real estate buyers. Majority of the foreign buyers come from Finland and Russia. Tõnu Palm of the Nordea Bank told the New York...

Estonian National Male Choir.   Photo by Jaan Krivel/ERR   The Estonian National Male Choir (RAM) will celebrate its 70th anniversary with a concert tour of the country of their favorite songs from Friday to Sunday. A gala concert will take place on Sunday at the Estonia Concert Hall. RAM was...

The year 2014 marks the 50th Anniversary of The Estonian Archives in the United States, Inc. (EAUS). It is only befitting that this unique book reaches a wider English speaking audience. The plight of refugees from many nations embroiled in too many wars is still an unfortunate fact. "DP Chronicle"...

Photo by Siiri Lind   On Monday, September 22, 2014 an exhibit was opened at the UN international headquarters, in New York City, regarding the ethnographic explorative work done by Lennart Meri on the indigenous people of Finno-Ugric origin, entilted “The Waterfowl People”. As one of the main themes upon...

Left to right: Jay Kaufman, Lexington Symphony board member; Epp Sonin, Lexington Symphony president and board chair; Joyce Vyriotes, communications director, Cummings Foundation; and Virginia Hecker, Lexington Symphony executive director, at a reception for Cummings Foundation grantees in June.   Courtesy photo   September 8, 2014, Lexington, MA.  Lexington Symphony, a...

  On August 23rd over a thousand people filled Chicago’s City Hall Plaza in anticipation of replicating the 400-mile long human chain that has become known as the Baltic Way and to remember the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.   Due to heavy rain, after more than an hour’s delay, we were...