7th Finglish trip August 2008 #10 Sugar River Suomi Park in Newport New Hampshire was a meeting place for Finnish immigrants in the early...

7th Finglish trip August 2008 #9 West Paris, Maine, in the nineteenth century was a center of Finnish immigrant settlement and many...

7th Finglish trip August 2008 #8 Elias P. McKeen Jr. (1936-2015) is buried at the Finnish Cemetery on Porter Road in West Paris, Maine....

7th Finglish trip August 2008 #7 Retirees have time on their hands. Jacqueline Harjula is one of the active women of Finnish Heritage...

7th Finglish trip August 2008 #6 Art Jura is a 3rd generation “Mainer”, a retired photographer, and the grandson of Finnish immigrants....

7th Finglish trip August 2008 #5 Sarah Cummings-Ridge plays Finnish kantele, she has participated Sommelo kantele festival in Kuhmo,...

7th Finglish trip August 2008 #4 Patricia Ktistes nee. Kangas has served at the Brookwood School as a piano and vocal instructor and...

7th Finglish trip August 2008 #3 Hilda Kaihlanen (1919-2013) nee. Ross, shortened from the Finnish name Rossi, wife of the late Lauri...

7th Finglish trip August 2008 #2 Susan is a retired teacher and a volunteer guide at the Rockport Museum. Her grandparents came from...

7th Finglish trip August 2008 #1 Randy and Karen Kangas have seven children, six boys and a girl, David, Joshua, Tim, Peter, Ben, John...

6th Finglish trip December 2007 #12 Saima Hyppa nee. Kuitunen was born in 1917 to a Finnish immigrant family. Her father came from...

6th Finnish trip December 2007 #11 Paul Victor Bjorklund, The Rev. Paul Bjorklund was born in Negaunee, Michigan to Anna Sofia and Anders...

6th Finglish trip December 2007 #10 Eric Norman Westerberg (1929-2014) was born in Detroit, MI to Swedish speaking Finns who returned to...

6th Finglish trip December 2007 #9 Hera Ware Owen has danced in the Martha Graham company, among others. Her family came from Tuohikotti...

6th Finglish trip December 2007 #8 On December 7, 1919, the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church was formed. A week later in 1919, the...

6th Finglish trip December 2007 #7 Lempi Kähönen-Wilson (1926-2015) was born in Karelia, Finland. Lempi survived through the Soviet Union...

6th Finglish trip December 2007 #6 Philip "Phil" Raistakka (1935-2012) was the son of Leo and Sylvia (Nasi) Raistakka, he was born in...

6th Finglish trip December 2007 #5 Wilho Saari is a fifth-generation Finnish American player of the kantele, the Finnish psaltery. Kreeta...

6th Finglish trip December 2007 #4 John Kallunki, a third generation fisherman on the Columbia River, mainly catches salmon and smelt....

6th Finglish trip December 2007 #3 Shirley Kellys father came from Kuusamo, Finland. Her mother was a second generation American Finn...