Vesa Ojamaalis 161 minFinglish - Finns in North America 2013Finglish Book and Photo Exhibition completed May 2013 The Finglish-project was finally completed in the spring of 2013, a photo book and ...
Vesa Ojamaalis 91 minKip Peltoniemi Minneapolis 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #37 Kip Peltoniemi lives in Minneapolis. His grandparents had a homestead in New York Mills and he spent h...
Vesa Ojamaalis 21 minMarianne Wargelin Minneapolis 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #36 Marianne Wargelin´s family traces itself to the early Astoria, Oregon Finnish fishing community, minin...
Vesa Ojahelmi 241 minArmi Nelson Minneapolis 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #35 Armi Nelson´s father Aarne Koskinen was from Raisio, Finland. He came to Duluth, Minnesota, to work as...
Vesa Ojahelmi 171 minSaarinens Christ Church Lutheran Minneapolis 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #34 Christ Church Lutheran is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Minn...
Vesa Ojahelmi 101 minFinnish Pioneer Monument Minneapolis 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #33 The Finns of Minneapolis gathered every summer to celebrate “juhannus”, midsummer, in Theodore Wirth P...
Vesa Ojahelmi 31 minHarvey Barberg Cokato 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #32 Isak Parpa (later Barberg) came to Cokato, Minnesota, from Ylitornio, Northern Finland, in 1866.The pr...
Vesa Ojatammi 271 minAliina Charging Hawk Duluth 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #31 Aliina Charging Hawk studies chemistry and American Indian subjects at the University of Duluth. She m...
Vesa Ojatammi 201 minArne Vainio Cloquet 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #30 Arne Vainio is a Finndian. He was born in Chisholm, Minnesota to a full-blood Ojibwe mother and a Finn...
Vesa Ojatammi 131 minThe R.W. Lindholm Gas Station Cloquet 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #29 The R.W. Lindholm Gas Station is a service station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and located in Cloqu...
Vesa Ojatammi 61 minEsko Fire Department Esko 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #28 The Esko Volunteer Fire Department was founded in 1949 by a very dedicated bunch of local men who knew...
Vesa Oja30o joulu 20191 minSalolampi Finnish Language Village Bemidji 201111thFinglish trip August 2011 #27 Tiina Watts teaches Finnish in the Salolampi Finnish Language Village at Concordia College, where Minne...
Vesa Oja23o joulu 20191 minThe Old Kinnunen Store Wolf Lake 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #26 In the southern part of Becker County in Minnesota lies the threemile long Wolf Lake, Susijärvi, deep ...
Vesa Oja16o joulu 20191 minRaymond Bentley New York Mills 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #25 Raymond Bentley's grandmother's place, the old Tapio Farm, is now the Finn Creek Open Air Museum. His ...
Vesa Oja9o joulu 20191 minAnnikki Marttila Savo 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #24 Annikki Marttila nee Visuri came to USA in 1975 to interpret her father as he searched for relatives. ...
Vesa Oja2o joulu 20191 minPeggy Worthy Savo 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #23 Peggy Worthy lives in the town of Frederick, but runs a bed & breakfast in her grandfather’s house in ...
Vesa Oja25o marras 20191 minSavo Hall and Savo Church 201111th Finglish trip August 2011 #22 There are still some forty Finns in the Savo area in South Dakota. Standing in the yard of the Luthera...
Vesa Oja18o marras 20191 minHoward Carlson Rocklake 201111th Finglish trip July 2011 #21 Howard Carlson's grandfather came in 1912 from Kuusamo, Finland to Washington State to work in a mine. A...
Vesa Oja12o marras 20191 minAlfred Juntunen Rolla 201111th Finglish trip July 2011 #20 The Rolla-Rocklake community in Rolette and Towner Counties, initially settled in 1896, evolved into Nor...
Vesa Oja4o marras 20191 minNew Finland - Uusi Suomi 201111th Finglish trip July 2011 #19 Together with their families, David Jeremia Kautonen, John Lauttamus and Matti Mustoma were the first se...