Download or read book Maggie Walz and the Early Finns on Drummond Island written by Beth Maki and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie Walz was a Finnish-American lady of many hats. Not only was she a newspaper publisher, teacher, ticket agent, sponsor of many of her countrymen and women, temperance leader, and suffragette, but also a United States land agent.Drummond Island lies the furthest east you can go in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In May 1905, land was available there for homesteading. The dream of many Finns was to own their own land. They no longer wanted to have to work in the depths of the mines with all of its dangers. A number of Finns traveled with Maggie from the Copper Country to Marquette. There she and six others filed homestead patent papers. They all then continued on to Scammon Cove on the Island. They were going to start their "utopian" community. This is the story of those first Finnish homesteaders and the others who followed. The author, Beth Maki, is the granddaughter of one of those first homesteaders, Jacob and Liisa Heikkinen. Six children were born to the Heikkinens while living on Drummond. Among them was Beth's Mother, Allie.Many Finns with Drummond Island connections shared their pictures and stories with Beth. This book, with 259 pictures, 3 fold-out maps, and many family's stories, is a compilation of information received, and data that the author has been able to glean from census records, land patent applications, and other sources.There is still more to the story. It is the hope that this book will continue the conversation about those Finns who are only represented by a name.
Download or read book History of the Finns in Michigan written by Armas Kustaa Ensio Holmio and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time.
Download or read book The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth Century America written by Timothy Miller and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the long-anticipated first volume of a two-volume work that will chronicle intentional communities in the twentieth century. Timothy Miller's chronological account is likely to be the standard work on the subject. Communities of the early twentieth century were often obscure and short-lived enterprises that left little trace of themselves. Historical accounts of them are few, and the ephemera such ventures produced have rarely been collected. Miller first looks at the older groups that were operating until I 900. He explores their impact of the early twentieth-century art colonies, and then turns to a decade-by-decade discussion of many dozens of new groups formed up to 1960. His comprehensive perspective—a synopsis of the first sixty years of this century—has never before been undertaken in the study of communal groups.
Download or read book Drummond Island written by Jill Lowe Brumwell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islands written by Gerry Volgenau and published by Ann Arbor Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people are stunned to learn that there are some 35,000 islands in the Great Lakes, ranging from a large stone with its top above water level to the world's largest freshwater island, Manitoulin. Islands: Great Lakes' Stories focuses on 18 of these islands with their histories and personalities.
Download or read book Sugar Island Sampler written by Bernard Arbic and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building That Bright Future written by Samira Saramo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers’ society. They were recruited by the Soviet leadership for their North American mechanical and lumber expertise, their familiarity with the socialist cause, and their Finnish language and ethnicity. By 1936, however, Finnish culture and language came under attack and ethnic Finns became the region’s primary targets in the Stalinist Great Terror. Building That Bright Future relies on the personal letters and memoirs of these Finnish migrants to build a history of everyday life during a transitional period for both North American socialism and Soviet policy. Highlighting the voices of men, women, and children, the book follows the migrants from North America to the Soviet Union, providing vivid descriptions of daily life. Samira Saramo brings readers into personal contact with Finnish North Americans and their complex and intimate negotiations of self and belonging. Through letters and memoirs, Building That Bright Future explores the multiple strategies these migrants used to make sense of their rapidly shifting positions in the Soviet hierarchy and the relationships that rooted them to multiple places and times.
Download or read book The Early History of Drummond Island written by Sally Landreville and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up on Drummond Island written by Jill Lowe Brumwell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upper Peninsula of Michigan A History written by Russsell M. Magnaghi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Get ready to discover the rich history of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. From its earliest days, it has evoked words of love, beauty, mystery, and legend. Drawing on oral histories, newspapers, census data, archives, and libraries, Russell M. Magnaghi has written the seminal history of a very 'special place' as seen through the eyes of the men and women who have lived here- the famous and not so famous. For the first time in over a century, a complete history of the U. P.- from prehistoric origins to the present- is available. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan: A History is an extraordinary book celebrating this unique sense of place."--Back cover.
Download or read book Women who Dared written by Carl Ross and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Finns in Michigan written by Gary Kaunonen and published by Discovering the Peoples of Mic. This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering the Peoples of Michigan examines the rich multicultural heritage of the Great Lakes State and explores Michigan's ethnic dynamics. Michigan's rapidly changing historical and social structures have far-reaching implications in such areas as public policy, education, management, and private enterprise. Discovering the Peoples of Michigan reveals the unique contributions that different and often unrecognized communities have made to Michigan's historical and social identity.
Download or read book Finnish Diaspora written by Michael G. Karni and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers on Finnish migration and about the life of the ethnic group, expecially in North America and elsewhere.
Download or read book Calumet Copper Country Metropolis written by Dave Engel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated mining town history.
Download or read book Ernest Hemingway Fished Here written by Larry Wakefield and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
