Topics include his family history; railroad gangs; machine shop; loggers; steam engines and whistles; the 1913 copper miners' strike; the Italian Hall disaster; work as a carpenter; his first car; and breweries.
Edith (Laine) Koivisto was born in Kuusenkoski, Finland, and immigrated to Spokane, Wash., in 1910. In 1912, she moved to Smithville, Minn., where she worked at and attended Työväen Opisto (Work People's College). In 1913 she married Arvid…
Native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula; graduate of Suomi College and Theological Seminary; military chaplain; Lutheran pastor in North Dakota, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan; pilot; and archivist emeritus at Finlandia University.…
Interview on Andrews's research and publication on the 1913 Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Mich. Includes background information on the 1913-1914 copper miners' strike. Interviewed recorded on radio station WMPL in Hancock, Mich.
Topics include his work as a physician in Hancock, childbirth, midwives, early medical techniques, Finnish Americans and their foods, labor-management relations, and working conditions in the mines.
Topics include selling vegetables; Alfred Pelto; potato harvesting; soil; frosts; fertilization; giving away vegetables; gardening as a youth; and storing vegetables.
Topics include picking blueberries; the Depression; clearing land; logging; early Pelkie, including the coop, creamery, and cheese factory; making hay; school; peddlers and beggars; ethnic relations; working in the mines; copper miners' strike…
Topics include farm and family life; picking berries; Christmas; cross-country skiing; forest fires; schools; and the Lutheran Church and pastors Edward M. Groop, Frans Koski, and Lauri Pikkusaari.
Topics include his family, including his parents who were born in Finland; his career as a judge; his involvement with the Ontonagon County Historical Society and the Upper Peninsula Chapter of the Michigan Archaeological Society; and Ontonagon…
Topics include working as a blacksmith; his father's coming from Canada; clannishness among nationalities; politics in the Copper Country; Democratic clubs in Houghton County; Finnish interest in politics; Democratic Party support; effect of World…