The residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have a unique dialect, one that Dr. Wil Rankinen has studied in depth. Currently Dr. Rankinen is a linguistics professor at Grand Valley State University. This presentation will be free and open to the public.
Festival Ruska kicks off Wednesday, September 27
The color season is nearing its peak in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, and with that we’ve arrived at Festival Ruska 2017! This is meant to be a guide to your day one, which is the busiest day of the third annual festival that’s hosted by Finlandia University.
Finlandia University’s Finnish American Heritage Center is host to two of the three events during Festival Ruska’s opening day.
All three of the opening day [...]