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Finglish - Finns in North America 2013
Finglish Book and Photo Exhibition completed May 2013 The Finglish-project was finally completed in the spring of 2013, a photo book and...
Vesa Oja
16.3.20201 min käytetty lukemiseen
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Kip Peltoniemi Minneapolis 2011
11th Finglish trip August 2011 #37 Kip Peltoniemi lives in Minneapolis. His grandparents had a homestead in New York Mills and he spent...
Vesa Oja
9.3.20201 min käytetty lukemiseen
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El Rancho de las Golondrinas Santa Fe 2011
11th Finglish trip July 2011 #4 Consul Yrjö Paloheimo and his wife Leonora Curtin Paloheimo were friends of Finland. During the Winter...
Vesa Oja
15.7.20191 min käytetty lukemiseen
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Finlandia Motel Mount Shasta 2009
8th Finglish trip June 2009 #34 At the foot of Mount Shasta near the Oregon border in California is the sign of the Finlandia Motel, a...
Vesa Oja
29.10.20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
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Otto Heino Ojai 2009
8th Finglish trip June 2009 #29 ”I like to drive really fast, 130 miles an hour in my Bentley,” says Otto Heino, over 90 years of age,...
Vesa Oja
24.9.20182 min käytetty lukemiseen
28 katselukertaa
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Esko & Rodney Hieta Van Nuys 2009
8th Finglish trip June 2009 #23 Esko Hieta was born in Tampere in 1930, were he also went to school. After studying at Business Institute...
Vesa Oja
13.8.20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
40 katselukertaa
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Niebaum-Coppola Winery Napa Valley 2009
8th Finglish trip May 2009 #12 The Rubicon Estate Winery, formerly Niebaum-Coppola Estate Winery and once again Inglenook, is located in...
Vesa Oja
28.5.20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
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Allan & Sylvi Hentilä Pearl River 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #39 Allan Hentilä was born in New Jersey in the USA and Sylvi Hentilä nee. Oksanen was born in Vallila...
Vesa Oja
29.1.20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
121 katselukertaa
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Ridva Huuskonen Manhattan 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #34 Ridva Huuskonen moved to USA when she was 28 years old in 1962 to work as a cook for the Finnish...
Vesa Oja
25.12.20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
17 katselukertaa
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Anna-Riitta Fuchs Manhattan 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #32 Pioneering endocrinologist and educator, Anna-Riitta Fuchs was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1926,...
Vesa Oja
11.12.20172 min käytetty lukemiseen
35 katselukertaa
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Leena Kuivanen Manhattan 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #28 Leena Kuivanen was 21 years old when she told her parents she would like to move to Australia....
Vesa Oja
13.11.20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
53 katselukertaa
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Norm & Benita Westerberg Mercer Island 2007
6th Finglish trip December 2007 #10 Eric Norman Westerberg (1929-2014) was born in Detroit, MI to Swedish speaking Finns who returned to...
Vesa Oja
17.4.20172 min käytetty lukemiseen
66 katselukertaa
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Carl & Martha Kulla Brush Prairie 2007
6th Finglish trip December 2007 #2 Carl Arthur Kulla (1920-2013), was born to Emil and Ella in Brainerd, Minnesota. Both Emil and Ella...
Vesa Oja
20.2.20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
191 katselukertaa
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