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Työn Temppeli Harlem 2009
9th Finglish trip October 2009 #3 At 15 W126th Street in Harlem in New York City stands a grey building, the Pilgrim Cathedral of Harlem....
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Vesa Oja
- 17. jouluk. 2018
- 2 min
Duke Devlin Woodstock 2009
9th Finglish trip October 2009 #2 Duke Devlin, though not a Finn, is an interesting person. In the Summer of 1969 he hitchhiked up to...
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Vesa Oja
- 5. maalisk. 2018
- 2 min
Dave & Fred Orrik Washington DC 2008
7th Finglish trip October 2008 #44 Dave and Fred Orrik were born into an Estonian Finnish family, their father was Estonian and their...
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Vesa Oja
- 22. tammik. 2018
- 1 min
June Lahti Yonkers 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #38 June Lahti’s father came from Kivijärvi to Michigan with his parents at the age of two. Her mother...
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Vesa Oja
- 15. tammik. 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Vesa Oja
- 8. tammik. 2018
- 1 min
Tuula Malmi and Leena Freyer Bronx 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #36 Tuula Malmi and Leena Freyer live in the old Finnish Co-op apartment house Varma in the Bronx, New...
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Vesa Oja
- 1. tammik. 2018
- 1 min
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...
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Vesa Oja
- 13. marrask. 2017
- 1 min
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....
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Vesa Oja
- 16. lokak. 2017
- 1 min
Pentti & Marja-Liisa Palonen Brooklyn 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #24 Pentti Palonen came from Finland to the Unites States in 1946 to study in Philadelphia Pennsylvania....
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Vesa Oja
- 3. lokak. 2017
- 1 min
Anja & Mauno Laurila Voluntown 2008
7th Finglish trip August 2008 #22 Mauno and Anja Laurila met in the mid-1950s in Harlem in New York City. They now spend their summers in...
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Vesa Oja
- 4. syysk. 2017
- 1 min
Owen Christensen Gardner 2008
7th Finglish trip August 2008 #18 Owen Christensen´s mother Helmi came to US from Ilmajoki in 1918. She met her Danish-born husband in...
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Vesa Oja
- 16. tammik. 2017
- 1 min
Arthur Kahkonen Mecklenburg 2007
5th Finglish trip July 2007 #35 Arthur U. Kahkonen (1913-2008) was born in the town of Plummer, Minnesota, to the late August and Kaisa...
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Vesa Oja
- 19. jouluk. 2016
- 1 min
Lomala 2007
5th Finglish trip July 2007 #31 Lomala (”Vacation Place”) was founded in the 1920s by Finnish tailors, who wanted a summer vacation site...
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Vesa Oja
- 19. maalisk. 2016
- 1 min
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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