With a childlike twinkle returning to his eyes, 77-year-old Arthur Saarinen remembers climbing the chinaberry trees as a toddler on the way to his grandfather's Alachua County home. He recalls having ...

You may think of Embarrass as the town that often posts the cold-weather records in the winter, but it has a unique slice of Minnesota history available for visitors to the area: the Finnish Homestead ...

TOIMI, Minn. — Walking into Toimi School is like taking a walk back in time. The two-room schoolhouse, built by and for Finnish immigrants in the unincorporated community of Toimi in 1913, is filled ...

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Stripped down to their underwear — some even beyond that — they belly-flopped into the fountain one by one, deliriously hugging as they paddled around the shallow water. Some climbed light poles, some ...

Since its debut at the Finnish Artists’ annual exhibition in 1903, The Wounded Angel by Finnish artist Hugo Simberg has remained a perennial favorite both among Finns (it was voted the country’s ...

A dramatic era in Finnish history gets an expensive, staid showcase in the true story of a Finn forced to spy on a Russian collective farm. Nations, like superheroes, have origin stories. And it’s ...

We admit it, rock climbing in Finland isn't our expertise. But Tommy Vänskä certainly knows a thing or two. Along with Ville Kurru, Vänskä, has directed Kylmää kiveä (Cold Stone), the film which ...

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen believes that imposing neutrality on Ukraine, as happened in Finnish history after the war with the Soviet Union in the 1940s, will not lead to a peaceful ...

Why is the Finnish mobile games industry leaps and bounds ahead of the competition, and how can everyone else emulate that success? As is always the case, the answer isn't a simple one. It's engrained ...