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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Kurtti, James

Paperback

Series: Images of America

EconomicsGeneral PhotographyRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 146712978X
ISBN13: 9781467129787
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: Nov 19 2018
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Explore the lasting influence of the Finnish people in the Upper Peninsula.


At the time, Hancock consisted of nothing more than a small cluster of humble buildings, but it was here, on the outskirts of mid-19th-century civilization, that Finnish settlement in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP) took root. Much to the surprise of these new Americans, Midsummer was not a religious holiday marked by feasts in celebration of the season's prolonged sunlight. Rather, the newcomers were immediately hastened into the bowels of the earth to extract copper in pursuit of the American Dream. In short order, hardworking Finnish immigrants became reputable miners, lumberjacks, farmers, maids, and commercial fishermen. A century and a half later, the UP boasts the largest Finnish population outside of the motherland and sustains the determined spirit the Finns call sisu - an influence that remains palpable in all 15 UP counties.

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