Category: Stories

  • Karjukallio

    Karjukallio

    Near Immalanjärvi lake is Karjukallio [Boar Hill], assumed to have been named after the wild…

  • Wonders of Immalanjärvi Lake

    Wonders of Immalanjärvi Lake

    There was human habitation on the shores of Immalanjärvi lake as early as the 4000s…

  • Fierce storm at Immalanjärvi lake

    Fierce storm at Immalanjärvi lake

    Nature displayed its power on the lake in July 1957, when a tornado several kilometres…

  • Rautjärvi, summer 1943

    Rautjärvi, summer 1943

    The boy stares straight at me, eyes dark with fear and glued to my battered…

  • The subversives

    The subversives

    During the Winter and Continuation Wars, motley gangs of saboteurs and spies were active in…

  • A jump off the rock

    A jump off the rock

    Along the Kuokkalammi road, about 20 metres off, is a rock with one side a…

  • Spirits meet in Purnujärvi

    Spirits meet in Purnujärvi

    The Purnujärvi cultural landscape contains ancient military history exemplified by the fiefdoms and endowed lands…