11th Finglish trip August 2011 #37 Kip Peltoniemi lives in Minneapolis. His grandparents had a homestead in New York Mills and he spent...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #36 Marianne Wargelin´s family traces itself to the early Astoria, Oregon Finnish fishing community,...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #35 Armi Nelson´s father Aarne Koskinen was from Raisio, Finland. He came to Duluth, Minnesota, to work as...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #34 Christ Church Lutheran is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #33 The Finns of Minneapolis gathered every summer to celebrate “juhannus”, midsummer, in Theodore Wirth...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #32 Isak Parpa (later Barberg) came to Cokato, Minnesota, from Ylitornio, Northern Finland, in 1866.The...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #31 Aliina Charging Hawk studies chemistry and American Indian subjects at the University of Duluth. She...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #30 Arne Vainio is a Finndian. He was born in Chisholm, Minnesota to a full-blood Ojibwe mother and a...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #29 The R.W. Lindholm Gas Station is a service station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and located in...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #28 The Esko Volunteer Fire Department was founded in 1949 by a very dedicated bunch of local men who knew...

11thFinglish trip August 2011 #27 Tiina Watts teaches Finnish in the Salolampi Finnish Language Village at Concordia College, where...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #26 In the southern part of Becker County in Minnesota lies the threemile long Wolf Lake, Susijärvi, deep...

11th Finglish trip August 2011 #25 Raymond Bentley's grandmother's place, the old Tapio Farm, is now the Finn Creek Open Air Museum. His...

11th Finglish trip July 2011 #18 Sontiainen is an amusing, intriguing and tragic story of home-sickness. The unfortunate Tom Sukanen had...

11th Finglish trip July 2011 #8 Dan´s father Niilo Kamunen was from Kalajoki, Ostrobothnia. Niilo was born in 1884 and died in 1956 in...

11 Finglish trip July 2011 #2 The 28th FinnFest USA was held in Town & Country Conference Center in San Diego, California in 2011....

10th Finglish trip July 2010 #9 On March 16, 1999 in Kaleva, Michigan a large metal sculpture of a grasshopper was dedicated in honor of...

8th Finglish trip June 2009 #26 Times are hard even for the film studios. A pile of film props and equipment have been assembled at...

8th Finglish trip June 2009 #21 Elissa Marie Ketokoski was born in Sparta, Minnesota in the Iron Range area. All her grandparents came...

8th Finglish trip May 2009 #8 Elizabeth "Beth" Kerttula is a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives. She is the...