Word: jarvenpaa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer in the 1930s. being in Europe, I went up to Finland to see Dr. [Jean] Sibelius. He was most gracious and we had long conversations. As you probably know, he lives about 25 miles outside of Helsinki at a place called Jarvenpaa. which means "Lake's End." One can go out from the capital by a little train in about an hour, or by motor car in less. His villa is built of logs and stands on a knoll among pines and silver birches overlooking the lake to the westward. At the foot of this knoll but still...
...often since then, in these dreary war-years, I have thought of him at Jarvenpaa, burdened with his share of his nation's and the world's grief...