Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Reed, Lempi

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The following names and terms were used in this interview: Scini, Kungsholm, The Andrea Doria, Forest St. Old Finnish Hall, Valon Leimo, Miriam (Land), Dr. Cohen, Mannerheim, Polka, Tinnaus, Sodis-Finn Hop, Karjala Rice pudding and fruit soup (ursine soppa).

Linda Brayton and David Masters, principal oral historians; Interviewer(s):Linda Brayton.

TRACKS: 1. Mrs. Reed's background, trip to U.S.A., reasons for coming, learning English -- 2. Employment -- 3. Growing up in Finland, subsistence farming, crafts -- 4. Russo-Finnish War memories, Finnish women's role, the economy, aftermath -- 5. Making a home in the U.S.A., adjustments -- 6. Tourism on running the Lantana House, Motif #1 and blizzard of 1978 -- 7. Sisu -- 8.Sisu (cont'd) -- 9. Holidays, Finnish foods -- 10. Visits to Finland, Finnish government and education -- 11. Family structure, contacts with other Finnish people in area, dances, fortune telling and New Year's.

Originally issued on sound cassettes and transferred to compact discs.

Institution: Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library

Massachusetts--Essex (county)--Ann, Cape

Reed, Lempi, Interviewee

Brayton, Linda, Interviewer

1978

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eng

[Gloucester, Mass] : Sawyer Free Library

Anecdotes

Manners and customs

Finnish Americans

Oral history

sound recording-nonmusical

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1 sound disc : digital, stereo

4 3/4 in.

Gloucester Oral History Collection

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