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El Rancho de las Golondrinas Santa Fe 2011

15. heinä 2019
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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 War, they organized the Help Finland tour to raise funds for the war-stricken country. An outdoor museum was founded at their ranch Las Golondrinas in Santa Fe. Maintained by the Paloheimo Foundation, the museum area displays life and culture in early New Mexico. One of the examples for the museum was the Seurasaari open-air museum in Helsinki

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Työn Temppeli Harlem 2009

24. joulu 2018
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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. Before it was the Työn Temppeli - Labor Temple, it was built by Finnish American communists in the 1920s. In Harlem there was already the 5th Avenue Hall which was owned by the Finnish American socialist chapter - osasto. The communists, after the Second Schism of the Finnish American socialists, left the 5th Avenue Hall and started to buil

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Allan & Sylvi Hentilä Pearl River 2008

29. tammi 2018
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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 Helsinki in Finland. Both were born in 1924. Before the war Allan´s family moved back to Finland. In Helsinki Allan started to work in the laboratory of the Orion Company. Allan and Sylvi met there since she worked there as well. Sylvi studied at the Ateneum Art College, at the same time she worked at the Arabia factory as a porcelain painter

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Anna-Riitta Fuchs Manhattan 2008

11. joulu 2017
2 min

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, the youngest child of Martti and Ruth Olsson. In 1939, at the age of 13 she enlisted in the junior corps of the women's auxiliary when the country was attacked by the Soviet army in the Winter War. In 1943, at age 17, she joined the regular women's auxiliary corps of the armed forces and served as a communications specialist and air raid obser

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Helmi Lepisto Rock 2007

10. loka 2016
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Helmi Lepisto Rock 2007

5th Finglish trip July 2007 #21 Helmi Lepisto is making strawberry soft cake for Vaino, Mary, Mike and Sarah. Vaino is Helmi's big brother, Mary or Maija is Helmi's daughter, Mike is Helmi's son in law and Sarah is Helmi's granddaughter. Helmi is very active in the local Finnish community, just before we came she had held a meeting with eleven Finnish ladies, they keep the minutes in Finnish. Helmi has worked as a teacher of sign language. Helmi told us about the most famous

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Berkeley 2006

16. touko 2016
1 min

Berkeley 2006

4th Finglish trip September 2006 #13 " The first Finnish Hall, the Toveritupa, was built in Berkeley, California, in 1909. The hall, which became the Finnish American community center for the Bay Area, was the home of the Finnish Workers Association, a chapter of the Finnish Socialist Federation. During the Winter War in 1939 the Workers Association refused to support Finland in her desperate struggle against Soviet Union. After that most Finnish Americans refused to attend e

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