Editor's note: This is the second installment of a weekly column by Maynard residents about the town they call home. The Finnish bath, or sauna, was an integral part of daily life in Finland, and when ...

H alf a century ago, European immigrants and shipyard workers would head to a half-brick, half-wood building at 81 Copeland St. in Quincy and trudge up a flight of stairs to Finland Steam Baths on the ...

Half a century ago, European immigrants and shipyard workers would head to a half-brick, half-wood building at 81 Copeland St. in Quincy and trudge up a flight of stairs to Finland Steam Baths on the ...

Under the direction of Coach Jakko Mikkola, nine members of the Harvard cross-country squad journeyed to Quincy early yesterday morning where they were initiated into the mysteries of the Finnish bath ...

KAJ are tipped to win Eurovision with a song about saunas – so it’s appropriate that they made a guest appearance at a Finnish bath at the event on Wednesday. Their song, "Baru Bada Bastu", is a ...

THE ADVENTURER (377 pp.) — Mika Waltari—Putnam ($3.50). The standard formula for making a historical novel sell merrily nowadays is: violence plus sex equals success. Finnish Novelist Mika Waltari has ...