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Vesa Oja
24. jouluk. 20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
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....
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Vesa Oja
17. jouluk. 20182 min käytetty lukemiseen
Duke Devlin Woodstock 2009
9th Finglish trip October 2009 #2 Duke Devlin, though not a Finn, is an interesting person. In the Summer of 1969 he hitchhiked up to...
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Vesa Oja
5. maalisk. 20182 min käytetty lukemiseen
Dave & Fred Orrik Washington DC 2008
7th Finglish trip October 2008 #44 Dave and Fred Orrik were born into an Estonian Finnish family, their father was Estonian and their...
50 katselukertaa
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Vesa Oja
22. tammik. 20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
June Lahti Yonkers 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #38 June Lahti’s father came from Kivijärvi to Michigan with his parents at the age of two. Her mother...
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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...
75 katselukertaa
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Vesa Oja
8. tammik. 20181 min käytetty lukemiseen
Tuula Malmi and Leena Freyer Bronx 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #36 Tuula Malmi and Leena Freyer live in the old Finnish Co-op apartment house Varma in the Bronx, New...
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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...
60 katselukertaa
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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....
52 katselukertaa
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Vesa Oja
16. lokak. 20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
Pentti & Marja-Liisa Palonen Brooklyn 2008
7th Finglish trip September 2008 #24 Pentti Palonen came from Finland to the Unites States in 1946 to study in Philadelphia Pennsylvania....
80 katselukertaa
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Vesa Oja
3. lokak. 20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
Anja & Mauno Laurila Voluntown 2008
7th Finglish trip August 2008 #22 Mauno and Anja Laurila met in the mid-1950s in Harlem in New York City. They now spend their summers in...
64 katselukertaa
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Vesa Oja
4. syysk. 20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
Owen Christensen Gardner 2008
7th Finglish trip August 2008 #18 Owen Christensen´s mother Helmi came to US from Ilmajoki in 1918. She met her Danish-born husband in...
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Vesa Oja
16. tammik. 20171 min käytetty lukemiseen
Arthur Kahkonen Mecklenburg 2007
5th Finglish trip July 2007 #35 Arthur U. Kahkonen (1913-2008) was born in the town of Plummer, Minnesota, to the late August and Kaisa...
18 katselukertaa
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Vesa Oja
19. jouluk. 20161 min käytetty lukemiseen
Lomala 2007
5th Finglish trip July 2007 #31 Lomala (”Vacation Place”) was founded in the 1920s by Finnish tailors, who wanted a summer vacation site...
108 katselukertaa
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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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