Pieces of the Past: Memoir recounts the amazing two-floor school and other charms of second-generation rural immigrants

This memoir about immigrants in the rural parts of our country during the Depression should be very interesting, seeing what they went through compared to now.     - - Donna Poisl

from Carol Kammen

Not all Finger Lakes Finns live in Newfield and Spencer. There was also a small migration to Dryden in the 1920s.

Elias Huhtanen came to the New World from Finland by way of Canada, then slipped across the border into Minnesota. He worked in the iron mines.

In 1906 he instructed his son George, about age 12, to join him, and George followed the same route. He too, worked in the mines and also as a lumberjack.
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20120324/NEWS01/203230326/Pieces-Past-Memoir-recounts-amazing-two-floor-school-other-charms-second-generation-rural-immigrants?odyssey=nav%7Chead
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