Topics include selling vegetables; Alfred Pelto; potato harvesting; soil; frosts; fertilization; giving away vegetables; gardening as a youth; and storing vegetables.
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.
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.
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.…
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…
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.
Interview also includes Walter S. Holmlund--1908-1993 and Minnie Marsi. Interview relates chiefly to various aspects of life in Jacobsville,Michigan, a sandstone quarrying location at the mouth of the Copper Country's Portage Lake Entry.