Programs related to Finnish America and Finland, by performers associated with Finlandia Foundation National, a non-profit organization formed in 1953 in Pasadena, California to support heritage and cultural programming in the United States.
1950-60s when finnish peacekeepers were in middle east one of the first things they built was sauna. Even it was allmost +50 degrees centigrade outside 😆
Thank you for this marvelous performance. This has produced so many memories of my youth. I was born in Finland in 1941, I now live in Australia. I met Sibelius by accident in 1956 when I was visiting my grandmother, she lived near Ainola.
Thank you Frank for a most interesting presentation. I was always told my Finnish ancestors were born in the sauna because it was the cleanest place. I wonder if they had savu saunas.
My grandparents (Herman & Hilda Kuona) had savusauna in Marlborough NH on their farm. Unfortunately the farm was sold in the early 1960 and it was destroyed. It had a vent on the side wall where the smoke would go when warming the sauna. As kids we would go in when it was being warmed. You didn’t touch the walls or you would get black. The raised platform where we sat above the hearth was ok to sit. Of course, we had a brook nearby where we jump in after having our sauna. The sauna also was used to dry pole beans.
The forest finn flag is nearly the same as the karelinian flag in Russia (colours, scandinavian cross, but without the black center part) and the colours of tavast icehockey team Ilves, which I support. I am 2nd gen swede finn who moved back to Finland, so I can relate with much of the topics living through the mentioned experiences firsthand. 🖐✡✝️♾0️⃣🐻Many in my family moved also to US, Canada. Some stayed and others moved back. I wish you a good journey to find your heritage and genialogy, roots. 👍😌Language is though the key to unlock finnish culture, finnish local cultures, archives..Gottlund got it right there.
Just little fact for those who have family/ DNA connection to Finland. If you can prove your Finnish heritage, you will be automatically given the right to live, work and study in Finland with the same rights as Finnish citizens. Many young people take this opportunity to finish education as it’s free. So Finland has not forgotten you. 😉
being a descendant of southern scandinavian exodus , from what I found so far , danish or south sweden our roots and background are scattred so thin over the saxons ,romans, slavs etc. We had the advantage to mix our blood with stronger genetic variants... altough still a bit different of our east countries .. we are mostly european now. We learn every day that the population moved every so given time territory .... and we have to remember , it's not only genes that make the person . the american approuch is very narrow orientated , as like nothing changed in thousends of years...
does Harkonnen from dune have any real etymology?:) hark at least is a unique root word present from basque thru old norse to hittite, meaning light/holy/white (possibly distant cognate of sámi 'vilges'=white/ fungarian 'világos'=bright?)
Thank you for your interest. You may want to take your questions to the experts via the Forest Finns Facebook page; we are just the host for their program.
No it is not known. Fiction is fiction. Author just got inspired of the finnish name, which he then butchered to Harkonnen in his book. Härkönen comes from finnish root word Härkä=Oxen. With the -nen addition in finnish means basically a small, smallish oxen ie. probably somebody who was hardworking, stubborn or a man with temper originally. The -nen addition was used in eastern Finland that is Savolax and Karelia. In eastern Finland family names was inherited like nowadays is common practice. In western Finland people did not have fixed family names. Yet eastern finns or somebody with this heritage and with family name Härkönen are most probably relatives wit each other.
Thank you for your interest. Not sure if you are asking this of Finlandia Foundation National or the Forest Finns. Finlandia Foundation was founded in 1953 to connect Finnish Americans in the U.S. If you have questions about the Forest Finns, please go the that Facebook page; we are independent organizations.
Most Finns when they got to North-America arrived at NewYork and form there migrated to mainly Minnesota, Wisconsin & Michigan area there for the most records and data can be found in USA. Also it's also matter of funding for the longest time federal government of USA gave grants to Finlandia foundation Canada has never made similar funding available and the small communities in for example Nova Scotia or Ontario were able to self fund stuff like this.
To give voice? It seems to imply thinking less of a group's ability to communicate, which paradoxically has been espoused by the Foundation because of the importance of what they will communicate and/or because you don't see them as having their own voices without your channel. Or potentially as if some grandiose sacrifice has been made by the foundation to have them on its channel to begin with. If that's the case, perhaps you are underestimating your audience's interest in the topic?
Not certain of your point. This channel is an opportunity to share information from the sources that willingly choose to participate, for those who wish to view the programs.
@FinlandiaFoundationNational This is not a forum designed for angementative debate. As such, I never attempted nor am I inclined to attempt to argue with you over points real or imagined. That said, good luck, as I can only imagine taking up the responsibility of attempting to give voices to people who obviously already have them keeps you very busy. Further, perhaps next time you may find it a net positive experience to instead express profuse gratitude for such an opportunity to convey knowledge, similar to how at least I am grateful despite how embarrassed I am for, but also not on behalf of the Foundation, insofar as how they were introduced, to be able to learn more about my fellow citizen's life stories. Again, good luck and kiitos. That said, I am finished with this discussion. No puns intended whatsoever.
What a rich experience! Thank you Phyllis, for documenting and sharing it with us. Here you are once again, creating meaningful connections in the world. I was lucky to learn to weave from you, and I love the leppä leaf!
My mother Tuula Bjork has been weaving on her looms here in NY for over sixty years. She's going to be 82 and she is still weaving. She would be a great story . If interested contact me here. She taught in Finland and she is still A Finnish citizen.
@@FinlandiaFoundationNational her rugs have been in architecture digest. Most of her career she worked for Elizabeth Eakins . But she recently sold her company to a company in Britain. She does contract work for them now. Her work is beautiful. She also knits and makes clothes. I believe her major was textiles. She immigrated to the USA back in the 60s I believe. Anyway. She's a sweetheart and I don't think she gets the recognition she should get because she's in the background making the rugs and not for front selling them. 🙂↕️
