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Topics include the Depression; logging; hunting (including deer hunting) and hunting accidents; and trapping.

Topics include personal history; Pelkie and Baraga, Mich.; William Pelkie; Baraga physician Romulus S. Buckland; cabbage as the area's biggest cash crop; the produce trade; the Mineral Range Railroad; logging; lumber camps; his work as a teamster;…

Topics include Finland and the town of Rauma; famous Finnish clergy; living in the U.S. during the Depression; the Russo-Finnish War; World War II and his service as an army chaplain; teaching at Suomi College; conflicts between the Suomi Synod and…

Interview also includes Ilma Niemi. Topics include growing up in Virginia; home life; Fourth of July celebrations; memories of Eveleth and Payne, Minn.; church life; working in mines; and lumber camps and lumbering.

Topics include family history; the reasons her parents came to Copper Country; her father's work as a mine captain; celebrating Christmas and the Fourth of July; school; marriage to physician Addison Aldrich in 1907; life as an physician's wife;…

Topics include her work at Suomi College as a housemother; coming to America; school in Finland; Finnish foods; ethnic conflicts; boardinghouses in Hancock; Fourth of July celebrations; crime; home remedies; midwives; diseases; and ministers.

Topics include her birth in Calumet, Mich., and her family; teaching; problems teaching English; amusements; boardinghouses; the Tamarack co-op; Vertin Brothers department store in Calumet; home remedies; and picnics.

Topics include his religious beliefs and awakening and his involvement with the Apostolic Lutheran Church of America.

Topics include her family history; education; her work as a teacher; and teaching Finnish immigrants English.

Topics include his genealogy; background and schooling; and the use of hydraulic air compressors in mines.