(WLUC) - Heikinpäivä returns to celebrate the Finnish culture in Hancock ... Organizers assured the crowd that any two people were welcome to participate - not just husbands and wives.
The strike helped in dividing Finnish migrants into two hostile groups, conservatives and radicals, which disagreed vehemently on the question of how Finns should be seen by “Americans”, an often ...
Three generations of Finnish-Americans recount how they coped with harsh realities by creating their own institutions: churches, temperance halls, socialist halls, and cooperatives.