From birthing to smoking to healing - Hometown Focus | Northland news & stories
Andrew (Antti) and Hedvig (Saima) Saari (Peräsaari) built their sauna in the Town of Pike on their farm homestead in 1906, two years after the house was started. It was a smoke (savu) sauna at first with a stone enclosure of the heating rocks without a chimney. The fireplace, (kiuas) was replaced with a brick
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