A nearly collapsed wooden house with square windows, covered in leafless creeper. Jussarö. Black and white photo.
A nearly collapsed wooden house with square windows, covered in leafless creeper. Jussarö. Black and white photo.

Göran's Home

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There isn’t much left of Göran’s island home, just a lot of questions. Was he a pilot, a fisherman, or perhaps a seal hunter? Maybe all of the above? In his day, people fished for a lot of herring and sprat, but also cod and pike. They were sold to Helsinki and Turku, and perhaps most of all to Tallinn. Seasoning the fish was a great secret—as great a secret as the story of Göran’s home.

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There isn’t much left of Göran’s island home, just a lot of questions. Was he a pilot, a fisherman, or perhaps a seal hunter? Maybe all of the above? In his day, people fished for a lot of herring and sprat, but also cod and pike. They were sold to Helsinki and Turku, and perhaps most of all to Tallinn. Seasoning the fish was a great secret—as great a secret as the story of Göran’s home.

Nostalgia – Memories of the past

Even in the dim light of the waterfront shed, you can see the practical beauty of the handle, worn smooth by decades of use. The spirit of the curly pine tree lives on in the tool – the tree from which it was crafted. In all the boxes and barrels, fishing net hooks, ice augers, corfs, decoy ducks, shovels and scrapers... The new cannot replace the old. It lacks the stories, spirits, and elves.