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The Estonian American National Council has a new MENU button on their homepage www.estosite.org. - “Celebrating Estonia: 1918-2018” We want it to be an information clearing house showing events taking place here in the U.S. (and in Estonia) to celebrate Estonia’s 100th anniversary. Not only will it be interesting and...

The New York Chamber Music Festival presents the FOYLE - STSURA DUO: Michael Foyle, violin (England) and Maksim Stsura, piano (Estonia, presently resides in London)), in their highly anticipated New York Recital Debut, with a splendid violin & piano program of masterpieces by Mozart, Brahms, Cesar Franck, Lutoslawski. March 2...

Consul General, Eva-Maria Liimets, will be in Los Angeles to attend the Los Angeles Estonian community's celebration of Estonian Independence Day. On Sunday morning, February 21, 2016, prior to the Independence Day festivities, she will meet with persons who need to apply for a passport or who have other business...

You know muesli. Originally known in Swiss German as Bircher/muesli, (because it was developed around 1900 by Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner for patients in his hospital), or simply Müesli, the word is an Alemannic German diminutive of Mues which means "puree" or "mash-up." In non-Swiss Standard German, it is spelled...

A group of Estonian students. Photos from the VEMU archive, Toronto, Canada, (Järvesoo archive)   Tragedy, hope, success – all elements to build a great story were there and yet there had never been a film about the Baltic University. It was hard to believe. The Baltic University had been...

January 1, 2016 --- The Estonian American National Council, Inc., (EANC) has named Karin Shuey as its Washington DC Director, a newly-established position.   Karin Shuey will be responsible for EANC’s Washington DC activities and programs, representing EANC with Congress and the Administration, and at DC-area meetings and functions.  ...

The Estonian-American Fund-sponsored pianist Hando Nahkur's latest CD received the following from Toronto's music magazine Whole Note:   Waltzing Mephisto...by the Danube (Estonian Record Productions ERP 8115) with pianist Hando Nahkur. The title track is brilliantly played with remarkable clarity through all the maniacal passages.   The approach is disciplined...

Kaie Põhi Latterner and her friends Tiiu Messner and Tina Kõiva, on holiday from the cold northeast, serve as perenaised at the KFES Eesti Supi ja Võileiva Lõunaöök, Jan 3, 2016, Seminole, FL.   Photos by  Lisa A. Mets   Nearly 45 members of the Kesk Florida Eesti Selts (KFES) (Estonian...

This scene of shadow puppetry or varju/teater, as it is  known in Estonian, was played out on New Year’s Eve in the Kassi/saba (“Cat’s tail”) neighborhood of Tallinn. It was part of a social event, but not a performance...   The shadow of the figure first-grader Hugo is holding up...

Aavo Reinfeldt (EANC) from Laguna Niguel, California, is going to gift  his time and energy to lead the Estonian Comprehensive Cemetery Refurbishment project. More at EV100.ee   Our beloved Estonia will soon be celebrating a very special occasion – in 2018, the Republic of Estonia will commemorate its 100th anniversary....