This included Finnish American Heritage Center Volunteer Oren Tikkanen, who played during the celebration. “I have been playing Finnish music for the past 50 years or so,” Tikkanen said.

HANCOCK, Mich. (WLUC) - Finnish-Americans have celebrated Heikinpäivä in Hancock since 1999.. The mid-winter celebration’s ...

For the first time, the City of Hancock hosted the Finnish tradition of “Juhannus” or summer solstice. The weekend featured a variety of events based in Finnish customs and heritage. Juhannus began on ...

Finnish families, many of whom had dual passports, eventually assimilated — married into American society or moved back to Finland or grew older as their birth rates fell, according to documents ...

The Raivaaja (The Pioneer) was a Finnish-American newspaper published in Fitchburg from 1905 until 2009. All 104 years are included in the digital archive, which is available to use on library ...

He grew up in Minnesota to Finnish-American parents, worked on the East Coast, lived in Finland for a time, met Riikka, and together they moved to the northern Upper Peninsula, ...

Designed by Finnish-American modernist architect Eero Saarinen, the six-story, mirrored-glass building is now home to real offices and retail stores Stay up to date with notifications from The ...

The Finnish Center’s Library/Museum will be open from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., where visitors are welcome to see the collection of Finnish and Finnish American books and artifacts.

Now part of the Cokato Finnish American Historical Society, the ax-hewn log building shows what the earliest saunas in the state looked like through the 1930s. Ely Steam Sauna.