For the third year in a row the event was hosted at the home of Jim and Linda Abbott at their lovely home in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix. As always everyone brought some food that included Estonian dishes like verivorst, sült, kilu sandwiches, roosa-manna, along with many other items.
During the festivities Linda Abbott played the Estonian Anthem on her violin while everyone sang three verses of the song. With temperatures around 80 F in bright sunlight everyone had a great time and enjoyed the annual event in an area of the USA where the Estonian population is relatively sparse. Nonetheless, it appears we are somewhat always connected. In fact I went to the www.GENI.com family tree page and discovered that Linda Abbott was a distant (non-blood) maternal relative of mine thru a number of marriages over the decades from back in Estonia. Of course if one goes far enough back in time I suppose we are all related. :-)
Peter (Vaga) Feldmann
