| Show spots in I 1 0 n america that resist the melting pot festivals of various kinds call aff attention antion f to 0 bits of europe here it takes celebrations like a tulip festival to call ones attention to the many bits of europe scattered throughout the L united states says a bulletin from the national geographic society recently thousands of flower loving americans descended on holland michigan to witness the towns annual tulip festival the gay blooms stretching for eight miles lure visitors each spring to this largely dutch community sprinkled with dutch names and for the festival period with residents in dutch costumes A little greece in florida holland is one of the largest dutch communities in the united states until recently many of its factory workers spoke only dutch and neighboring farmers wore wooden shoes tarpon springs about half way down the west coast of the florida peninsula is the home of many s swarthy w a r t h y mustachioed greek sponge divers and their families they came to the warm blue waters of florida fisheries from the sponge fishing grounds of the mediterranean and have made tarpon springs famous as a sponge city their brightly painted diving boats are patterned after those used in greek waters the town supports a greek orthodox church and on january 6 annually celebrates greek cross day a religious fete brought from the homeland northwestern pennsylvania has its russians nearly half a century ago some old believers descendants of se ceders from the russian church in the seventeenth century settled in erie the russian s an colony now numbers about 2000 inhabitants folk songs are sung g to balalaika accompaniment by bearded men and long haired women finns settled in forest lands although fa finns ains dwell in small numbers in eve every ry state in the union they have not found the south appealing and have settled chiefly in michigan minnesota massachusetts and washington from finland the land of a thousand lakes they have been especially drawn to minnesota their physical stamina and experience as lumberjacks lumber jacks in fin lands vast forests have fitted alny nit ny of them particularly well to take part in americas lumber industry the finns retain their love of education flocking to schools and night classes As in their home land they build log bathhouses bath houses in which to take steam baths and carve from birchwood skis which carry them over the fields in rigorous winters finland suomi and toivola t are goat desota place names that i finnish population shipping lures dadnia for centuries 1 either tilled the SOU soil or tan sau der and other fi a over the world today these spirited people with blood c sea rovers in their veins ag man the orange oran gesa sailed aed j boats off 03 the dalmatian c chai they man Amei american kaii ship work in fisheries or of 14 lou i florida and california 4 from green vineyards viney arall ardi olive groves figa bigand and or br alt an g chadds steep steeped d in ili almost pt ani al sunshine along the daunai coast have hav e come mandof manyd large commercial fruit grown grovr the pacific coast parti par ticul those in santa cruz an and Ss clara counties 1 I 4 of san francisco francis co nali ha a edh almost entirely Yugoslav Yugo faiL 0 o T the majority ot of provincetown Province town massachusetts portuguese their anat sailed there on whalers chalers from and the azores the directory is filled with nam cam sound strange among tho thoa most new england dofis towi is names such as silva ramos tado costa zora dutra I 1 cat almeda agna and cre corea so 7 |
