Finnish Organizations Around the Finger Lakes

Lydia Mackie’s booklet “The Spencer Finns” has several articles on Finnish organizations. It is listed under menu item 2. Finns in Spencer and Van Etten

Churches

• Lampila, Aili Rantanen (1943). The Finnish Church in Van Etten. 30th anniversary of St. John's Finnish Evangelical Church. Church booklet,  North Van Etten, New York. 

• Frandsen, Jeanne Pakkala. The Finn and the Church.

• Alve, Jean. (1997) The North Van Etten Church. Looking Back 1, 

page 51.

• Långstedt, Rainer (2015). The Church Finns. Finnish-Americans in War and Peace (pages 13-16).  Helsinki:St. Magnus Press.

Political Division

• Mackie, William (2000). Red/White Clash Shapes Local History. Random Harvest 1/12/2000

• IWO Lodge holds American Soviet Rally. Spencer Needle 11/11/1943.

• Alve, Jean (1992). The Finnish International Workers Rally in 1942 to benefit Russia, China. Sounds of Spencer newspaper column ??published in Spencer Needle?? November 1942

• Långstedt, Rainer (2015). The Red Finns. Finnish-Americans in War and Peace.  Pages 16-21.

The Spencer Co-op Society

•  Alve, Jean (1994).  66 Years of the Spencer Co-operative Society.

    Looking Back 1. Pages 167-169. 

•  Rångstedt, Rainer (2015). The Co-operative Movement. Finnish-Americans in War and Peace. Pages 22-26.

• EXPERIMENT - PDF version of The Co-operative Movement entry

• Spencer- farmarien osuusliike [video file](1940s) Finnish language film of Spencer Co-Op, Spencer Finn hall, and Nichols Park gathering shown on Finnish TV. Retrieved from https://areena.yle.fi/1-50162953