Memories of the Winter War
By Art Jura, Norden, 17 April 2008. Translated by June Pelo. Helvi Waisanen Silverman and Paula Waisanen Szabo related their experiences in Kuhmo, Finland during the 1939-40…
Traditions and history
Before Modern Conveniences
Based on the book “Before Modern Conveniences”, by Helmi Kortes-Erkkila. It is about a Finnish farm family 1917-1927.Submitted by June Pelo. The author grew up on…
The Sauna
This is the second and more detailed version of ‘The Sauna’ article by June Pelo. She sites her source as the internet. Anthropologists know little about…
Carl Carlsson Åivobäck-Clemetsöhem (1722-1860)
Published in Vasa 1963. Translated by June Pelo. Some time ago the Vasa newspaper published an article series “Klemetsö Village over 500 Years.” In these historic…
Midsummer
By June Pelo. Sources extracted from the internet. Midsummer has been celebrated for many centuries and some traditions predate Christianity. Traditionally all turning points of the…
The Log Cabin Tradition
By June Pelo, sourced from internet articles. The exact origin of log building is lost, but archaeologists have suggested it started with the Scandinavians and northern…
Erik Cainberg – Sculptor from Nedervetil
By Erik Nygren, from “Nedervetil Kommun Hembygdsbok”. Translated by June Pelo Ostrobothnia has given Finland most of the greatest poets, but has been short of artists…
Elmer Alexander Forsberg 1883-1950
By June Pelo Elmer Forsberg was born in 1883 at Yxpila in Karleby, Finland, son of Adolf Alexander Forsberg and Signe Katherine Bonde, and emigrated to…
Fattiggubben
From an article by Anja Smolander.Translated by June Pelo. Since the time of the 1600’s there were hundreds of carved wooden figures of old men that…
Grand Duchy of Finland, 1809 -1917
By June PeloData as of December 1988Based on information from Hugh Seton-Watson, “The Russian Empire, 1801-1917”, Oxford, 1967, 774. Russia planned at first to annex Finland…
Bombardment of Helsinki
Helsingin suurpommitukset helmikuussa 1944 Sent by Fredrik Forsberg to June Pelo. Finland, which against its will had become involved in the first war, and then a…
Bror and Gunnel Hedman – War Children with Good Memories
From Historiska nedslag by Ole Granholm.English translation by June Pelo. Siblings Bror and Gunnel Hedman from Karleby traveled in 1941 to Gällinge in Halland, Sweden as…
