Thank you Patricia for doing those interviews. I now have a more complete view of Finnish life in New Ipswich. I lived in a less religious household and straddled the Finnish and French worlds which were only 3 miles apart. My father and 2 of his friends (Leo Ylonen and Lennie Ypya) married French Canadian women from Highbridge in 1938. In the 60s I also had the experience of visiting a family member at the Concord Hospital.
Thank you Patricia for doing those interviews. I now have a more complete view of Finnish life in New Ipswich. I lived in a less religious household and straddled the Finnish and French worlds which were only 3 miles apart. My father and 2 of his friends (Leo Ylonen and Lennie Ypya) married French Canadian women from Highbridge in 1938. In the 60s I also had the experience of visiting a family member at the Concord Hospital.