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The first meeting of the XXI Estonian American National Council was historic.  Its newly elected members decided to adopt English as the primary language for its discussions.  The decision was not easily come by, but once reached permitted the two-day session to flow smoothly.   After the formalities of opening...

The newly elected EANC executive committee posed for a photo-op. On the photo are (from the left): Matti Priima, Maia Linask, Mirjam Krull, Mai-Liis Barthing, Marju Rink-Abel (council president), Eric Suuberg, Arne Kalm, Kristi Allpere, Andres Simonson. Not present at the meeting (but also elected) were Tiina Urv and Alvar...

PRESS RELEASEOctober 3, 2014   At the first annual meeting of the 30 newly-elected members of the XXI Estonian American National Council, one of the main orders of business was to elect a new Board of Directors for a four-year term. The results of the election at the meeting, held...

A couple of years ago I had the privilege of drawing a family-tree diagram for an Estonian friend. I became interested in her family history and of her coming to the U.S. as a teenager in the 1940s, by herself. She told me about what her family had endured during...

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From L-R: Donna Pearson, John Fuyuume (Trustee Emeritus), Bruce T. Peterson (president of SECC), SECC Executive Board members, Ingrid Hawk, Eevi Truumees, Linda Ono, Lenore Wurtzel, Sharon Yoshida ja Stefanie Pierce.   Photo by Stanley Kaneshilu   The multicultural Museum at Seabrook, NJ celebrated the 20th anniverssary of SECC with a...

Estonian Minister of the Interior Hanno Pevkur announced in ETV on September 30,  that the government plans to establish a new border control task force to carry out special operations. "Today we have a clear understanding that in addition to regular border control, we will establish a special task force,"...

ETV nightly news ran a segment on Kent Härstedt, a Social Democratic MP who at age 29 was one of the passengers on the ill-fated Estonia ferry. He said he was most bothered by the question of how quickly the ferry sank - in just 30 minutes - as well...

This fishing motorboat, on display at the Museum of Occupations in Tallinn, was built in the 1930s. It safely reached the island of Gotland in Sweden in the fall of 1944 with its cargo of passengers escaping Estonia ahead of the next Soviet invasion.  Next to it is a naval...

Käesolevast Väike Eesti Sõnast leiate katkendeid äsja trükist tulnud raamatust: 80 aastat eesti keeles ja meeles   New Yorgi Eesti Kooli lapsed ja õpetajad 2014.a. septembris          Foto: Siiri Lind   See on New Yorgi Eesti Kool, mis on aja ja olukorra kiuste pakkunud killukest kodumaad võõrsil olijatele juba 80 aastat.          ...