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Finnish Pioneer Monument Minneapolis 2011
11th Finglish trip August 2011 #33 The Finns of Minneapolis gathered every summer to celebrate “juhannus”, midsummer, in Theodore Wirth...
Vesa Oja
10.2.20201 min käytetty lukemiseen
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Arthur and Suzanne Koski Morrison 2011
11th Finglish trip July 2011 #10 Suzanne is the descendant of Swedish immigrants, and Arthur Koski comes from Drummond Island, Michigan....
Vesa Oja
26.8.20191 min käytetty lukemiseen
24 katselukertaa
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Old Finntown Detroit 2010
10th Finglish trip July 2010 #4 Old Finntown in Detroit, Michigan is a desolated and sad looking neighborhood, burned down empty house...
Vesa Oja
11.2.20191 min käytetty lukemiseen
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Aino Backstrand Yonkers 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #37 Aino Backstrand was born in Harlem Finntown in 1921. Her mother was from Honkajoki and her father...
Vesa Oja
15.1.20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
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Anna-Liisa Rintala Manhattan 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #35 Anna-Liisa was born in 1928 in Pori, Finland. Anna-Liisa lived with her aunts after her parents got...
Vesa Oja
1.1.20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
60 katselukertaa
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Päivö Tarjamo Brooklyn 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #27 Päivö Tarjamo began his work as a pastor to Finnish immigrants in 1969 in Malmö, Sweden, during a...
Vesa Oja
6.11.20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
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Linda Tani and Henry & Anneli Orava Brooklyn 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #26 Linda Tani and Henry Orava and his mother Anneli live in the Finnish co-operative apartment house...
Vesa Oja
30.10.20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
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Helena Laitinen Brooklyn 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #25 Helena Laitinen feels she is "The Last Finn" in the old Brooklyn Finntown where more and more...
Vesa Oja
23.10.20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
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Lempi Issakainen Brooklyn 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #23 The Imatra Society was a society of Finnish immigrants located in Brooklyn, New York. The society...
Vesa Oja
9.10.20172 min käytetty lukemiseen
53 katselukertaa
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Arno Rafael Minkkinen 2006
4th Finglish trip September 2006 #9 Arno Rafael Minkkinen is an internationally renowned artist who merge his own body with light or the...
Vesa Oja
24.4.20161 min käytetty lukemiseen
12 katselukertaa
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Butte - Piutti 2006
4th Finglish trip August 2006 #2 The Finntown of Butte, Montana gave way to a surface mine. Butte was known in Finglish as Piutti....
Vesa Oja
27.3.20161 min käytetty lukemiseen
59 katselukertaa
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Brooklyn and Harlem Finntowns 2006
3rd Finglish trip March 2006 #2 The former reception terminal for European immigrants in the Port of New York has been converted into a...
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19.3.20161 min käytetty lukemiseen
56 katselukertaa
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