Enjoy reading how life was for some Finns in New Ipswich. My experience was quite different. My Finnish grandparents were not religious and the women (my grandmother, my aunt and her half sister were not (from my perspective) subservient to their husbands. It looked like an equal relationship. When my aunt & uncle moved in with my grandparents, my grandfather told my father how he was upset on how my aunt was reconfiguring his living quarters against his wishes. I was surprised that the 'history' described today was in the mid 70s. It seemed more like the mid 40s.
Enjoy reading how life was for some Finns in New Ipswich. My experience was quite different. My Finnish grandparents were not religious and the women (my grandmother, my aunt and her half sister were not (from my perspective) subservient to their husbands. It looked like an equal relationship. When my aunt & uncle moved in with my grandparents, my grandfather told my father how he was upset on how my aunt was reconfiguring his living quarters against his wishes. I was surprised that the 'history' described today was in the mid 70s. It seemed more like the mid 40s.