Mimisms
"You only go around ____ in life"
What is "Once"?
Al was born in this year.
What is 1937?
The Aho name was shortened from this original Finnish surname.
What is Lamminaho.
Meaning "extraordinary resilience or grit".
What is "Sisu".
Al was born in this Copper Country city.
What is Hancock?
"_____ these days."
What is "kids"?
The number of brothers Al had.
What is 7?
Before moving to Finland, the Aho ancestors hailed form this country.
What is Sweden?
A common swear word referring to the excrement of bovines.
What is "harrambuska"?
Al graduated from this Copper Country high school.
What is Houghton?
"There's no ______ on earth."
What is "heaven"?
Al's nickname as a child.
What is "Abbie"?
Aho means this in Finnish.
What is "clearing" or "meadow"?
Meaning Salty Fish.
What is "sulla gulla"?
Al and Laverne honeymooned here in 1957.
What is the Porcupine Mountain State Park?
"Tell me all your ______".
What is "Problems"?
The school where Al attended kindergarten.
What is the Ryan School in Hancock?
Mim's family, the Gabas, immigrated to the U.S. from this country.
What is Czechoslavakia?
Meaning "good boy"
What is "hyva poika"?
Al also attended this Copper Country School, when living at the Pilgrim River Farm.
"The old gray ____, she ain't what she used to be."
What is "mare"?
Al was born on this day of the week.
What is Monday?
Samuel Lamminaho moved to the U.S. in this year in order to avoid being drafted into the Finnish military in its war against Russia.
What is 1892?
A baked pancake
What is "pannukkakua"?
Al and Laverne were married in this Copper Country Town.
What is Dollar Bay?