A Northern Origin The landscape of Alatornio, Lapland, provides the backdrop for the early years of Eetu Isto. Born into a family of farmers on November 28, 1865, he is the youngest of nine children. While his siblings remain tied to the land, he becomes the only one to attend school, though the distance of six kilometers limits his education to the elementary grades. The path leads away from the farm toward Sweden, where at eighteen,…