Life-cycle rites: Birth & Churching
Excerpts from “Finnish Folk Culture” by Ilmar Talve Translated by June Pelo Birth From time immemorial, the Baltic-Finnic people have divided the period of gestation (40 weeks) into two periods.… Read More
Excerpts from “Finnish Folk Culture” by Ilmar Talve Translated by June Pelo Birth From time immemorial, the Baltic-Finnic people have divided the period of gestation (40 weeks) into two periods.… Read More
Pia Holm will speak at our Annual Meeting & Luncheon on March 9, 2019. The Finnish people have always lived close to nature. To magical forests. To sea and sky.… Read More
John Olin’s logging camp in the summer of 1902. The girl on the ladder is Eva Asp, next to her is Hanna Asp, and next to her is Hanna Olin,… Read More
by June Pelo Photo used with permission from Nordic Food Lab licensed under CC SA-BY 4.0 During times of famine in Finland, our ancestors looked for substitutes to replace the grain which… Read More