Heikki Lunta is the Finnish snow god, born in 1970 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. That may sound strange, but it’s another of those things that just snowball when people want to have a little fun. Houghton County, Michigan, has a large concentration of people with Finnish ancestry, and they know how to enjoy snow.
But when you have a snow event planned, and the weather doesn’t cooperate, you have to take things into your own hands.There’s a little town called Atlantic Mine about five miles away from Houghton where they hold an annual snowmobile race every winter. In 1970 the race was at risk of being cancelled because there wasn’t any snow. The race was sponsored by radio station WMPL in nearby Hancock. With no snow in sight, one of the station’s salesmen, David Riutta, composed a song called the “Heikki Lunta Snowdance Song.” It took him about twenty minutes to invent the lyrics….
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