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…
Traditions and history
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…
The Remarkable Adaptability of Gustav Wilson
Gustav Wilson arrived in Oregon in 1852. According to the records now available Gustav was the first Swedish Finn to settle in Oregon. Of course as…
Forest Finns Still Haunt the DNA of Sweden
by Kimberly Jacobs Identity can be a groan inducing word. Often it is used in a long hyphenated phrase such as, “I identify as something-something plus…
Bark Bread
by June Pelo During times of famine in Finland, our ancestors looked for substitutes to replace the grain which was not available to harvest. During the…
Bark bröd
Text June Pelo Under tider av svält i Finland letade våra förfäder efter substitut för att ersätta säden som inte var tillgängligt för skörd. Under åren…
A Lady Traveling Steerage
The following was written by Mrs. Sadakichi Bartmann, traveling from New York to Paris, and was published in the Boston Evening Transcript on December 21, 1892. Thank…
