My name has always been a matter of pride and wonder to me. Partly as a result, I traveled this year to Estonia, the land of my ancestors on my father's side. We have a long history there, us Kolls. We originally come from a small village called Palamuse in the County of Jogeva and our last name is very old -- it means ghost or "boogey man" and is a holdover from the pagan days. I was not raised with Estonian tradition and always wondered just what that would have been like, given that it is a v...
My name has always been a matter of pride and wonder to me. Partly as a result, I traveled this year to Estonia, the land of my ancestors on my father's side. We have a long history there, us Kolls. We originally come from a small village called Palamuse in the County of Jogeva and our last name is very old -- it means ghost or "boogey man" and is a holdover from the pagan days. I was not raised with Estonian tradition and always wondered just what that would have been like, given that it is a v...
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