14 Aug

On September 21st and 22nd 1944 four rusting ships left Närpes, a city on the west coast of Finland, and on a stormy night crossed over the Gulf of Bothnia (upper portion of the Baltic Sea) to two cities on Sweden’s eastern coastline, It...

02 Sep

Hibbing, Minnesota, was a melting pot for all the European immigrants -- Czechoslovakia, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland, Greece. All kinds of foreign tongues were spoken, and the Johnson family had friends of every nationality....