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yes">&nbsp; </span>The potluck suppers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Looking for the Real Thing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Well we have the Real Thing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>Hard work, good food, and the <b> Good Sauna</b>.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">In 1926 the world our grandparents lived in was quite different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>They thought different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>They talked about different things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thrown into our world of <i><b> sheer complexity</b></i> with cellphones, web, credit limits, and drive-ups at the donut empire (to say nothing of a <b> $3.59 gourmet coffee</b> we leave with) they would gaze in wonder with some <b> measure of consternation</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>To the Finns of West Quincy and the South Shore, while 1926 was the boom days of the stock market, for the most part their share in the <i><b> speculative wealth</b></i> was pretty much nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>However the Finnish shopkeepers, mothers, workmen, and engineers of Quincy were indeed expanding their businesses, putting good food on the table, building new homes, and most importantly raising good kids with solid values.&nbsp; And being active in the community of <b>Quincy</b> ...</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <img border="0" src="images/photos/history/aholacartpushsingle.jpg" width="425" height="640"><br> <b><font face="Arial" size="2">Kalle Ahola won the bet that Ross would win the Quincy Mayoral Race</font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">However those UKTS members of 1926 were also smart and forward-thinking.&nbsp; On a tip from a Pembroke local, the members of the Uljas Koitto Temperance Society of West Quincy also checked out and staked a plot in Pembroke Massachusetts at a former hunting lodge as a place for a summer camp and (of course) set out to build a <b> wood-fired sauna</b> beside your basic glacial-drag pond.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">When you drive into the temperance camp parking lot Pembroke while sure all you see is the gravel and perhaps the grass could use a trimming (my fault).&nbsp;</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">But I see and sense something different at times ...</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">Since 1926 many, many, good persons and contributors to our (and hopefully your future) Uljas Koitto Temperance Society have driven, walked, biked, run with the vigor of youth into this simple parking lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>They all contributed to the welfare and well being of the society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Their toil over the years and <i> just as important</i>, good times make possible what is here today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Their echoes are still here across the simple gravel parking lot, into the loft pines, the outdoor benches by the porch, the woodpile, all the way into the <b>sauna</b>.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <img border="0" src="images/photos/072305/newsaunastoveline.jpg" width="596" height="447"><br> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">Men's Side of the UKTS Sauna - rectangle marks the new firebox.&nbsp; Average temperature 190F.</font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2">Over the years they washed the impossible pans with escalloped potato on 'em, pulled chainsaws out trucks to work the woodpile, fixed a flat tire or two enroute from Quincy (the tires of the 1930&#8217;s were very prone to blow-out) pulled fish out the pond, made the coffee a little stronger, threw logs in the firebox to keep the boys warm, stood up to the cold winds of November with the drone of the splitter, ever-building they pushed the sauna woodpile as wide and high as possible, cooked awesome apple pies, enjoyed their saunas, cut cake in the pantry, filled the soda machine, washed the hand towels, sold the tickets ... it goes on.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><font face="Arial" size="2">Apologies but our history section is being reworked at this time to correct some HTML problems.</b></font></span></p> <hr> <HR> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD width="100%" bgcolor="#E0DEDA"> <P align="center"><font face="MS Sans Serif" size="2"><b>Uljas Koitto Temperance Society Phone: 781-293-8434 (inactive during the Winter)<br> Email: <A href="mailto:semassuser@aol.com">semassuser@aol.com</A></font></TD></TR> </TBODY></TABLE> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD width="29%" height=26></TD> <TD class=smallblue width="69%" height=40 bgcolor="#E0DEDA" bordercolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" align="left"> <SPAN class=smallwhite>2002 Copyright Rights 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