It's amazing! As I sit here working on putting this site together, I can almost smell Effie's pulla and cinnamon rolls baking, and a fresh pot of Arco coffee cooking on the stove!

I bet a lot of you folks reading this have memories of the old days growing up in Oulu and the surrounding area.

Going to school at one of the old schools or at Oulu Elementary. To Gitchee Gumee 4-H club meetings. Church doings, weddings, funerals. Going to the Oulu Branch, or Lehtos Store/Purnells/Harrys Corner for groceries. Haymaking in the summer. Shoveling manure in the winter.

How about the Juhannus Juhlat of past years? Oulu BlueJays baseball games? A lot of stuff comes to mind..

Well, my intention is to stir up some of these memories for you. And to invite you to share them with the rest of the world!

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Things sure have changed in Oulu over my lifetime. A lot of new families have moved in. A lot of young folks have moved out. But it seems no matter how long you have lived here, or how long you have been away, there is some strange, almost spiritual connection we all have with this place.

So come back to OuluWis.us often to share some "Kahvia ja Pulla" with the rest of us.