Finglish Book and Photo Exhibition completed May 2013 The Finglish-project was finally completed in the spring of 2013, a photo book and two different versio...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #37 Kip Peltoniemi lives in Minneapolis. His grandparents had a homestead in New York Mills and he spent his youth in nearby W...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #36 Marianne Wargelin´s family traces itself to the early Astoria, Oregon Finnish fishing community, mining towns of Upper Mic...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #35 Armi Nelson´s father Aarne Koskinen was from Raisio, Finland. He came to Duluth, Minnesota, to work as a lumberjack. Armi´...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #34 Christ Church Lutheran is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #33 The Finns of Minneapolis gathered every summer to celebrate “juhannus”, midsummer, in Theodore Wirth Park, west of the old...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #32 Isak Parpa (later Barberg) came to Cokato, Minnesota, from Ylitornio, Northern Finland, in 1866.The previous year, Mathias...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #31 Aliina Charging Hawk studies chemistry and American Indian subjects at the University of Duluth. She misses, however, the ...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #30 Arne Vainio is a Finndian. He was born in Chisholm, Minnesota to a full-blood Ojibwe mother and a Finnish father. He compl...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #29 The R.W. Lindholm Gas Station is a service station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and located in Cloquet, Minnesota. Built...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #28 The Esko Volunteer Fire Department was founded in 1949 by a very dedicated bunch of local men who knew very little about f...

11thFinglish trip August 2011 #27 Tiina Watts teaches Finnish in the Salolampi Finnish Language Village at Concordia College, where Minnesota Finns maintain ...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #26 In the southern part of Becker County in Minnesota lies the threemile long Wolf Lake, Susijärvi, deep in wilderness. In 18...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #25 Raymond Bentley's grandmother's place, the old Tapio Farm, is now the Finn Creek Open Air Museum. His mother was born ther...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #24 Annikki Marttila nee Visuri came to USA in 1975 to interpret her father as he searched for relatives. In Savo, South Dakot...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #23 Peggy Worthy lives in the town of Frederick, but runs a bed & breakfast in her grandfather’s house in the township of Savo...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #22 There are still some forty Finns in the Savo area in South Dakota. Standing in the yard of the Lutheran church is the Savo...

11th Finglish trip July 2011 #21 Howard Carlson's grandfather came in 1912 from Kuusamo, Finland to Washington State to work in a mine. Arriving at Ellis Isl...

11th Finglish trip July 2011 #20 The Rolla-Rocklake community in Rolette and Towner Counties, initially settled in 1896, evolved into North Dakota's largest ...

11th Finglish trip July 2011 #19 Together with their families, David Jeremia Kautonen, John Lauttamus and Matti Mustoma were the first settlers in New Finlan...