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Vesa Oja
16. maalisk. 20201 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
9. maalisk. 20201 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
15. heinäk. 20191 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
29. lokak. 20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
24. syysk. 20182 min käytetty lukemiseen
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,...
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Vesa Oja
13. elok. 20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
28. toukok. 20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
29. tammik. 20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
25. jouluk. 20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
11. jouluk. 20172 min käytetty lukemiseen
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,...
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Vesa Oja
13. marrask. 20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
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
17. huhtik. 20172 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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Vesa Oja
20. helmik. 20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
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...
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