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Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

By: The Finnish American Heritage Center

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Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

By: The Finnish American Heritage Center

On Midsummer Eve, 1865, more than 30 Finnish and Sami immigrants disembarked from a Great Lakes ship to a place called Hancock, Michigan. 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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Arcadia Publishing

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146712978X

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9781467129787

Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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TIME America’s National Parks

100 Years of Preserving Our Land and Heritage

By: The Editors of TIME

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TIME America’s National Parks

100 Years of Preserving Our Land and Heritage

By: The Editors of TIME

As the National Park Service marks its 100th birthday in 2016, TIME celebrates America’s spectacular, unspoiled natural treasures. Vast in scale at nearly 85 million acres, the park system stretches from Acadia park in Maine to War in the Pacific park on Guam and more than 400 parks in between, visited by 280 million people each year. Highlights of this special edition: * Jewels in the crown: a lavish pictorial tour of the most breathtaking parks, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Glacier and Grand Teton * Founding fathers: the idea of a national park began with Western painter George Catlin and was later embraced by President Teddy Roosevelt after three nights under the stars in Yosemite Valley * A visitor’s guide to the best of the parks and monuments, from the spectacular to the quirky

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Time Inc. Books

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1683302702

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Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula

TIME America’s National Parks

TIME America’s National Parks

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