With a childlike twinkle returning to his eyes, 77-year-old Arthur Saarinen remembers climbing the chinaberry trees as a toddler on the way to his grandfather's Alachua County home. He recalls having ...

You may think of Embarrass as the town that often posts the cold-weather records in the winter, but it has a unique slice of Minnesota history available for visitors to the area: the Finnish Homestead ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Barbara Payne is part of a crucial link between cultural past and future. As ...

This text was translated from Finnish to English language in June 2012. It originally appeared in Kapinatyöläinen #2 in 1989, but is here translated from the collection of Ari Vakkilainen's anarchist ...

TOIMI, Minn. — Walking into Toimi School is like taking a walk back in time. The two-room schoolhouse, built by and for Finnish immigrants in the unincorporated community of Toimi in 1913, is filled ...

A dramatic era in Finnish history gets an expensive, staid showcase in the true story of a Finn forced to spy on a Russian collective farm. Nations, like superheroes, have origin stories. And it’s ...