Arnold Alanen will be selling and signing his latest book, ” The Scenic Route: Building Minnesota’s North Shore.“

The Scenic Route: Building Minnesota’s North Shore” is a newly published book, May 2025, from the University of Minnesota Press. Alanen welcomes the opportunity to meet and talk with people who use this opportunity to support FinnFest as well as purchase tthe book. Portion of the sales will become a donation to the festival.

Arnold Alanen, a frequent and popular FinnFest speaker was born, raised, and educated in Minnesota. He is professor emeritus of planning and landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town (Minnesota, 2007) and Finns in Minnesota; coauthor of Main Street Ready-Made: The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin; and co editor of Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America.