7th Finglish trip August 2008 #7 Retirees have time on their hands. Jacqueline Harjula is one of the active women of Finnish Heritage House in South Thomaston, where a large body of material on local Finnish history is stored. The local inhabitants along the road and the pupils of the one-room village school were Finns. Standing next to the present Heritage House is the Finnish Congregational Church of South Thomaston, Maine. Mission statement of the FHH says: "It is the miss

7th Finglish trip August 2008 #6 Art Jura is a 3rd generation “Mainer”, a retired photographer, and the grandson of Finnish immigrants. He sits in the Finnish Congregational Church of South Thomaston. The Finnish Congregational Church and Parsonage is a historic church in South Thomaston, Maine. Built in 1921, with the parsonage (now a Finnish Heritage House) added about 1925, the church represents one of the earliest formal expressions of Finnish-American culture in the regi