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As Finnish design house Artek marks its 90th anniversary, a Canadian reporter reflects on how its timeless furniture helped ...
It’s been years since I had consistently shitty Wi-Fi in my home. Around the time that Apple discontinued its AirPort routers ...
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 ...
HANCOCK, Mich. (WLUC) - Finnish-Americans have celebrated Heikinpäivä in Hancock since 1999.. The mid-winter celebration’s ...
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 ...
The Finnish American Folk School held its first ever open house and fundraiser Saturday. The nonprofit invited the public to visit its studios on the first floor of the Skyline Commons in Hancock.
Finnish public broadcaster Yle has reported that several people were stabbed near a shopping center in the southern city of ...
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 ...
A press conference was held Wednesday morning at the Finnish American Heritage Center to reveal details about the distinction ...
Finnish writer Ann Toumi's one-act play "The Reading Room" is set in 1968 in the Duluth City Library, focusing on the story of two Finnish men whose dreams as American immigrants dissolve into ...
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.
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, ...