[Magdalen] Homing Pigeons.

[Jay Weigel]

A friend of ours taught high school up in Aurora, MN, which has a large
Finnish population with a strong sauna tradition. He swore you could tell
which of the kids' families had saunas, because those kids always had the
most beautiful skin and never had acne, whether they were particularly
goodlooking or not.

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I experienced some of that during my year in Traverse City, in
> northwestern Lower Michigan. There were lots of Finnish-Americans and
> even some Finnish exchange students in my German classes. Maki was a
> fairly common name, and also lots of Juntonens and maybe some
> Ronkainens (Hi, Lynn!). Lots of -la names, too (Sikkila, Rutila). But
> I'm sure I didn't hear the Upper Michigan dialects in all their
> variety...a few hundred miles to go from TC to the UP.
>
> The ELCA (but LCA at the time) Lutheran church I belonged to up there
> seemed to have a lot of Swedish names among its members. I think it
> started as a Swedish-speaking church of immigrants. Not sure whether
> there was also a Finnish one or not.
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> > Did you encounter much the "UPer English" from the UP of
> > Michigan?  It's apparently tinged with Finnish.  We had  some
> > of that in my home town.  My best friend had some of it (last
> > name Maki).  He and his entire family spoke Finnish.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>