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Home > Magazine > Skis > Heikki Lunta! Heikki Lunta! --Make it snow, make it snow!

Heikki Lunta! Heikki Lunta! --Make it snow, make it snow!
January 11, 2012

OK, this is getting silly. But it's all going to change tomorrow. Right? Right!!! It's time to pull out all the stops!

What we need to make it a sure thing is for everybody to do the Heikki Lunta dance and to sing the song.

The Heikki Lunta story is a great one that everybody should know.

...How the poor Yooper Heikki Lunta danced and sang and MADE IT SNOW!!!

Check out the story and culture around this dude. What a guy!

Of course, the UP being a complex place the story isn't so simple after all.

...Because if you're not careful it might SNOW TOO MUCH. But we won't worry about that. (The B side of the 45 has the song needed in case of too much snow.)

I was in the Keeweenaw last winter and asked about all this at a very old coffee shop and people pretended they didn't know. Then an old guy who was leaving came over and whispered, "It's all true! It snowed too much when Heikki did the dance and everyone wanted to kill him. So don't do the dance! You never know if people will like you or beat you up! Everybody wants snow but not too much! I can't stay and tell you more or my wife will get me," then she grabbed him and they left. There's a mystery here!

Check out this video and these links:



http://www.pasty.com/heikki/heikkilunta.html

http://csumc.wisc.edu/exhibit/HeikkiLunta/culture/3Heikkis.html

http://csumc.wisc.edu/exhibit/HeikkiLunta/culture/lyrics.html#HeikkiLuntabytheDaYoopers

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