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Vesa Oja
10. helmik. 20201 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
26. elok. 20191 min käytetty lukemiseen
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....
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Vesa Oja
11. helmik. 20191 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
15. tammik. 20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
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
1. tammik. 20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
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
6. marrask. 20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
30. lokak. 20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
23. lokak. 20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
9. lokak. 20172 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
24. huhtik. 20161 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
27. maalisk. 20161 min käytetty lukemiseen
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....
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Vesa Oja
19. maalisk. 20161 min käytetty lukemiseen
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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