Basic Info
First Air: June 27, 2019
Status: Returning Series
Seasons & Episodes
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 3
Last Episode
Name: Part 3: A Farewell to Dairy Farming
Season: 1, Episode: 3
Air Date: 2019-07-11
Runtime: 44 min
The descendants of the Finnish immigrants move away to the cities to go to school and find work. Big box stores pushed out the small dairy farm. Finnish culture deteriorated in Pelkie. Mennonites and strangers moved in while a couple Finns remained.
Pelkie: 100 Years of Finnishness in Michigan's North Woods
2019
1 seasons
3 episodes
Overview
Finns became the most rural of all European immigrant groups. They created “havens in the woods,” cultural islands surrounded by forests where their ancestral language and customs persisted for 100 years. Pelkie, Michigan is one of these havens.
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