This and That about Finland
Translated from Swedish by June Pelo 1984. The country is divided into counties (lan), districts (härad) and parishes (kommun or socken). Districts are subdivisions under the…
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Country Store in Olden Times
Reinhold Heikkilä, Karleby, 5 Jan 1955Karlebynejden No. 42, 2011English translation by June Pelo The following is based on my father’s stories from my childhood. I am approaching…
Castles in Finland
Excerpts from an article by Elias Härö, in “Finland – a cultural encyclopedia”. Translated by June Pelo Finland’s political and social history in the medieval period…
Early Industries in Finland
Excerpts from “Finnish Folk Culture” by Ilmar Talve, ISBN 951-746-006-6June Pelo Tar Burning One of the early industries was tar burning and places can still be found…
Birger Lindqvist’s Unique Mora Clock
By June Pelo. Birger Lindqvist has made several Mora clocks that are in his home in Gamlakarleby, Finland, and his most prized clock required 1000 hours…
Aimo Björklund Saw the Remains of Sorjos Village
By Ole Granholm. Translation by June Pelo. Only the house foundations remain. The birch trees have rotted away. The years 1867 and 1868 were troubled years…
Anders Chydenius
June Pelo reposted various works she found on the internet. Specifics not cited. The Swedish Finn Anders Chydenius was one of the most notable politicians of…
Åbo Cathedral
From The Leading Star, November 2000. June Pelo. Finland’s first bishop was an Englishman named Saint Henry. It is mistakenly claimed that he baptized Finnish pagans into…
Caino and Torp Families in Vetil
By Marjatta Pulkkinen. Translated by June Pelo. Toward the Vetil River Valley A solitary wanderer shuffled through the backwoods with his knapsack. Along the shore of…
Ancestral Farmhouses in Kauhava Parish, Finland
Excerpts from an article by Jorma Kalliokoski in“A New Journey For North American Finns”, July 1999.June Pelo. One wonders what the first farm house looked like…
American Packages of Great Importance after the War
Assembled by Elof Sänkas. Norden 21 Apr 2005. Translated by June Pelo. When my mother died in 2000, I found an old American letter from my…
A German as Finland’s King
By Jonathan Riikonen FAR, January 2019 June Pelo When Finland achieved her independence on December 6, 1917, according to Parliament’s manifest the country was a sovereign…
