2nd Finglish trip August 2005 #3 Askel, Tapiola, Elo, Nisula, Pelkie or initially Kyrö are the names that Finns gave to the places they got their homesteads in late 1800s and early 1900s in Upper Michigan's Copper Country. In 1890 Pekka Tauriainen and Eenokki Pyykkönen heard rumours that in the woods there is a beautiful lake surrounded by good farmland somewhere up the Sturgeon River or Sampijoki in Finnish. They gathered a group of miners who had a dream to farm their own l