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Houston Polish Festival To Be Held On May 4th – 5th

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Houston Texas Polish Festival - Our Lady Of Czestochowa ChurchHouston’s 7th Annual Polish Festival will be held on Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm and on Sunday, May 5, 2013 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. The festival is a celebration of all things Polish – the food, the music, the language, the customs and the culture of the Polish people and will be held on the grounds of Our Lady of Czestochowa Church conveniently located at 1731 Blalock Drive, in the Spring Branch area of Houston, about 1.5 miles north of the Katy Freeway.
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The Land of the Free Documentary Film

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The story about Polish Texans from the east-central Texas.

Synopsis
There is a very unique community living in the United States today. They speak Polish, even though they have never been to Poland. They consider themselves Polish, even though there is a golden eagle on their passports and their ancestors moved to this country almost 160 years ago. They strove to create a new place for themselves in the vast and diverse lands of Texas, which they believed to be “the land of the free”. …

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An Evening Of Heritage Banquet In Bremond

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On the evening of April 20, 2013, over 400 people gathered in St. Mary’s Recreation Center in Bremond Texas for “An Evening Of Heritage”, an event sponsored by the Bremond Historical Society that celebrated Bremond’s Polish community and the Polish Oral History Project. In February of 2012 the Bremond Historical Society was awarded a grant from the Baylor University Institute of Oral History to record oral histories from the Polish Community.
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Marshall Family, Friends and Traditions Reunion In Plantersville

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Marshall Family, Friends and Traditions Reunion In Plantersville TexasFun, food, fellowship, music and dancing, what more could you ask for? Saturday, May 13, 2013 was a beautiful Texas spring day as hundreds of people from all over descended on Ronnie and Hazel Dutka’s beautiful big red barn in Plantersville, Texas to celebrate their Polish heritage at a fun-filled family reunion. The crowd was made up of members of the Marszalek/Marshall, Borek, Maduzia, Filar, Zabawa and Bartkowiak families along with many of their close friends.
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Bremond Historical Society Continues Work On The Polish Oral History Project

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Bremond Historical Society Polish Oral History ProjectPicture in your mind walking to church in the dark, cold night of Christmas Eve with your family and neighbors; a little girl making your escape from school to the dime store to buy a bag full of candy; soldiers home from WWII meeting the train at the Bremond Depot to retrieve the casket of a fallen comrade; or a little girl attending the funerals of those fallen heroes during the school day at St. Mary’s. These are just a tiny portion of the oral histories recorded from the Bremond Historical Society Polish Oral History Project.
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