Fleeting Farms blog and photos of Minnesota Saunas

Link to http://fleetingfarms.wordpress.com/ a blog about small farms, and the towns they supported has some great pictures, and many of the posts remind me of my life, growing up in a small farming town, and how things have changed considering giant agribusiness. I really enjoy the content and pictures on this blog, and have been searching for photos of small dwellings and saunas in Minnesota.  Here are a few of my favorite Minnesota Sauna pictures:

:"A Finnish immigrant family in front of their first shelter in which they lived and bathed while the house was being built. Later it was a sauna." Photograph and caption from the papers of University of Minnesota Duluth geographer Matti Kaups, who studied Finnish immigration in North America. The photograph depicts the Aho family of Karvenkylä, north of Chisholm, Minnesota, around 1905. Courtesy of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.
Text excerpts and photographs taken from The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition by Michael Nordskog, photography by Aaron W. Hautala. Published by the University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Copyright 2010 by Michael Nordskog. Photographs copyright 2010 by Aaron W. Hautala.

The Cokato savusauna, built in 1868, was moved from its original roadside location because non-Finnish neighbors complained about public nudity and demanded its removal. It is now a proud monument to Finnish pioneers at a well-traveled rural corner.

More pictures after the jump:

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Sauna etiquette sometimes requires explanation: Maplelag Resort in Callaway, Minnesota, a popular crosscountry skiing destination, offers guests a choice between "suit" and "no suit" saunas, and this list of guidelines.

"A Finnish immigrant family in front of their first shelter in which they lived and bathed while the house was being built. Later it was a sauna." Photograph and caption from the papers of University of Minnesota Duluth geographer Matti Kaups, who studied Finnish immigration in North America. The photograph depicts the Aho family of Karvenkylä, north of Chisholm, Minnesota, around 1905. Courtesy of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.