8th Finglish trip May 2009 #6 St. Michael’s Cathedral, the Orthodox church of Sitka, was built by Finnish carpenters in 1848. The church...

8th Finglish trip May 2009 #5 Landscape Geography Professor Arnold Alanen researched Sitka National Historical Park, where Finns and...

8th Finglish trip May 2009 #4 Lois Lakso Munch writes on her homepage http://www.classictours.com: "As a young child growing up in South...

8th Finglish trip May 2009 #3 One of the speakers on the FinnFest USA cruise to Alaska is Don Bibeau. He’s a Finndian, as...

8th Finglish trip May 2009 #2 Sinikka Church, née Pesola, is on a FinnFest USA cruise. She came from Finland to study at the University...

8th Finglish trip May 2009 #1 On May 2009 Holland America’s MS Westerdam left Seattle, Washington for a one-week cruise through Alaska’s...

7th Finglish trip October 2008 #44 Dave and Fred Orrik were born into an Estonian Finnish family, their father was Estonian and their...

7th Finglish trip October 2008 #43 Kalmar Nyckel was constructed in about 1625, and was of a design called a pinnace. The ship was...

7th Finglish trip October 2008 #42 Emma was born in Hancock, Michigan. Her mother Marsha Penti was the director of Archive of Finnish...

7th Finglish trip October 2008 #41 Harju Brothers is one of the large cranberry growing operations in Carver, Massachusetts. Vilho Harju...

7th Finglish trip September 2008 #40 Richard Impola was born in 1923 in Ahmeek, Michigan. Impola's father moved to Michigan from...

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...

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...

7th Finglish trip September 2008 #37 Aino Backstrand was born in Harlem Finntown in 1921. Her mother was from Honkajoki and her father...

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...

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...

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...

7th Finglish trip September 2008 #33 Anneli Alperin, née Jalkanen, was the last editor of the newspaper, New Yorkin Uutiset. She is a...

7th Finglish trip September 2008 #32 Pioneering endocrinologist and educator, Anna-Riitta Fuchs was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1926,...

7th Finglish trip September 2008 #31 Paul-Henry Tirri was born in Jaakkima, Karelia. As a young boy during the war he was in the midst of...