Marquette, MI – December 3, 2021 – A pair of new documentary films by Dr. Michael Loukinen make their world premiere this Sunday, December 5th, on WNMU-TV.
Thomson said the first film, Finnish American Chip Wood Carvers, airs at 7:30 p.m. He said Loukinen’s ethnographic documentary explores Finnish woodcraft past and present, as he focuses on a handful of Finnish American woodcarvers today in the Upper Peninsula.
The second film, Matikka: American Finlander Lobster, airs at 8:30pm. Thomson said matikka, or burbot, a freshwater cod, is regarded as junk fish by many in the U.S., but Finnish Americans long believed they were the only consumers of burbot.
Loukinen’s film documents Stanley and Joyce Budreau as they lift their home-made net full of burbot in Baraga County. Stanley traces the fishing tradition back three generations.
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Do you have plans to show the Loukinen’s Matikka documentary again in near future?
The Loukinen’s documentry program was not shown on the day and date as it was advertised . I am talking about wood carvers and about burbot. Are you planning to have a rerun??