Toward an oral history of Cape Ann : Erkkila, Sulo

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The following names and terms were used in this interview: Kalasjari, Sikkakyla, Hautamaki, Cheves, Miss Rowley, Muna, Barry, MacNerny, Leonard Johnson, Pulkka, Fitxgibbons, Poole, Helsinki, Dr. Pomeroy (Herb), Young's farm, Ahola, Rowe, George Einar Ray, Waino Band, Sylvester Ahola, Andrew Jacobson, Miss Sherburne, Miss Hayden, Rockport Band, Wainola Hall, Finn hops, Bay View Brotherhood, Puuko, Pulli.

Linda Brayton and David Masters, principal oral historians; Interviewer:Linda Brayton(4/11/1978)

TRACKS:1. Mr. Erkkila's family background -- 2. The Finnish sauna, a family business -- 3. Learning English in school -- 4. Working in the quarries, mother's employment -- 5. Raising food for the family, hard work done by women, no longer any dairy farms on Cape Ann -- 6. Finnish music, Mr. Erkkila's musical background -- 7. Finnish dances, costumes -- 8. Immigration, dates, stonecutter's consumption -- 9. Groups that immigrated to area, Temperance Society, Lutherans, Socialists -- 10. Rink Hall, Workingmen's Hall (New Hall) -- 11. Family learned Finnish, trip to Finland -- 12. Sports in Lanesville, dance halls -- 13. Finnish names, meanings, Finnish language classes, end of Waino Band -- 14. Socialists in Lanesville and Rockport -- 15. The Finnish family structure, saunas -- 16. Finnish bakeries, grocery store.

Originally issued on sound cassettes and transferred to compact discs.

Institution: Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library

Massachusetts--Essex (county)--Ann, Cape

Erkkila, Sulo, Interviewee

Brayton, Linda, Interviewer

1978

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eng

[Gloucester, Mass] : Sawyer Free Library

Anecdotes

Manners and customs

Finnish Americans

Emigration and immigration

Oral history

sound recording-nonmusical

Sound recordings

1 sound disc : digital, stereo

4 3/4 in.