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Saturday, September 19, 2009 was the booya at the Finnish Heritage Site on Little Marais Road near Finland, MN. The booya was a fund raiser for Zion Lutheran Church in Finland. Community leaders from all over northeast Minnesota were there, not only Lutherans and Finns. It was a true feast day, with several area food vendors, and local crafts vendors.

The Finland Area Historical Society, FAHS, is one of the best local historical societies, and has the benefit of close association with the Minnesota Historical Society. The centerpiece of historical interest is the John Pine Cabin, home of one of the settlers in Finland. A new Suomi Museum has professional designed displays showing the heritage over the past thousand years, people who lived here before European immigrants settled beginning in the 1880′s. I’m partial to the links between Little Marais, where I live on the North Shore of Lake Superior, and the various communities a short distance inland, including Finland and Isabella, and other communities that exist only as historical place names, such as Cramer.

Categorize this post under my general theme of 100 Places that top my list. There are plenty of such places in my immediate neighborhood.

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