[3] Later, his parents Karl (Kaarel) Naelapää (1856–1938) and Helena "Leena" Naelapea (née Rebane, 1871–1951)[5] operated a farm near Vidrike, where they were breeders of Estonian Red cattle.
[1] Naelapea volunteered in the Estonian War of Independence as a medic in the 3rd Division of the 7th Infantry Regiment.
[7] Naelapea was a member of the editorial board of Vaba Sõna in 1935, editor of Kauni Kodu in 1937, and editor-in-chief of Väljavaade from 1939 to 1940.
[9] Founding, publishing, and editing Olion was Naelapea's greatest achievement; the magazine was one of the highest-quality publications in Estonia at the time, unrivaled in content or form.
Under a new director, Vello Lindsalu (1937–1990),[10] it was decided to name the branch that separated from it Olion [et],[11] even though that name had been used before and had no connection with Eesti Raamat.
[7] He wrote the 1924 novel Metsade laps (The Child of the Forests) under the pseudonym Alfred Georg Saroughe.
[14] In 1921, Naelapea married Alice Rosalie Ojanson (1899–1999),[15] a philologist of Romance languages.