This was in the shed
According to Wikipedia, Punkaharju, Finland was chartered in 1924, which had to be just about the same time the temperance hall was built.
Photos from the municipal website look gorgeous - lots of water and green. Looks like we'll need to brush up on our Finnish to get any more, though.
Sign is a lot newer than 1924 though, and no apparent nearby locations named Punkaharu or Punkaharju, so we'll have to imagine a lot of the story.
....and I thought perhaps the added 'J' was a fishing hook!
(Looks like a nice bridge to fish off, doesn't it!)
I noticed birdhouses in the bottom right corner of the Punkaharju website and they reminded me of the birdhouse photo you posted earlier.
ReplyDeleteI also wonder if "har" is a Finnish morpheme (word particle with meaning attached), since it appears in this word and in the title of your blog. Off to investigate some Finnish linguistics!
Thanks for the adventure! :)
To translate Finnish to English, go to:
ReplyDeletehttp://translate.google.com/?hl=en#fi|en|
type in your url and click Translate. Babblefish here we come!