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Forest-Swimmers of Finland in Cement 6029

In September of last year I traveled to Finland and met up with friends who had recently moved there from Alaska. Of course, it's a rather expensive place to live and eventually they'll move back, but for the time being their two young children will benefit from the education system there and being close to their grandfather.

An artist created this extensive, hauntingly quirky, sculpture garden on his property just inside the border with Russia along Highway 6 at a place called Patsaspuisto.

I'm going back on June 25, a trip which will end with the last 4 days in Tallinn, Estonia for the once-every-five-years Laulupidu song festival where as many as 30,000 singers from around Estonia will be on stage at once.

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Arboreal Bathers 6031

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A display such as this in the United States would bring out the post-puritan neo-victorians for picketing... thereby creating free publicity, and making a chain-link fence necessary for keeping the vandals-on-a-mission-for-god out. But in Finland, there is no such small-mindedness. It just is what it is. Art.

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