Reporter Tero Karjalainen describes the Kuusamo people and the Kuusamo culture in detail. The main roles are personable people, starting with teachers.
Karjalainen’s work *Legends of Kuusamo* colorfully tells about Kuusamo personalities, Kuusamo customs and attitude towards their neighbors and strangers. Karjalainen even describes the birth of his home village of Käsmä in biblical terms. The novel begins with the sentence: \”In the beginning of time, the god Siivilö maita and poured stones into Käsmä. This is what the people of Käsmälä themselves say, and the bread of the Karelian family has been torn from the rocky fields…\”
– The Kuusamo native is a bit harsh and direct in his speech. But there is always a golden fringe in the middle of a rough and straight person. The person from Kuusamo always injects a bit of \”eho\ that is, there is always a bit of humor and exaggeration. Tero Karjalainen sees that the Kuusamo-likeness is born from that.
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