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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2012 Koledy Polskie In Chappell Hill

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Koledy Polskie Polish Christmas Carolers In Chappell Hill TexasAt 12:45 PM on December 29, 2012, an enthusiastic group of kolednicy or Polish Christmas carolers began singing old time carols on the steps of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, a historic Washington County parish that was founded in 1889 by early Polish immigrants to Texas. The weather was windy and cool but overall it was a beautiful day for the 5th annual Kolędy Polskie in Chappell Hill. St. Stanislaus’ pastor, Father Jozef Musiol, a native Polish speaker with a great singing voice, helped Mike Addicks, Dr. Jim Mazurkiewicz, Mike Kurtin and Brian Marshall lead the group of about 75 singers of all ages.
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Koledy Polskie Scheduled For December 29 In Chappell Hill

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2012 Koledy Polskie In Chappell HillFriends and family (Przyjaciólmi i rodzina):

On behalf of the “Kolędy Polskie” organizers, we want to invite you, your families and friends to join “Kolędy Polskie” on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 12:45 p.m. in Chappell Hill, Texas at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church. This will be our fifth annual “Kolędy Polskie” and we hope that you will invite your families and friends to join in this historic Polish tradition. Everyone is encouraged to attend and participate celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ and embracing our Polish culture.
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Brian Marshall and The Texas Slavic Playboys Play the BlackPot Festival in Lafayette, LA

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Polish Music at BlackPot Festival in Lafayette, LAIn October of 2012, after a short visit in New Orleans, I drove two and a half hours up to Lafayette, Louisiana, to play at the annual BlackPot Festival. Each year, the South Louisiana BlackPot Festival & Cook-Off is held at Lafayette’s Acadian Village, a living history park. In addition to presenting many kinds of roots music, the festival holds a “cook off” (hence the name “Blackpot”) in which contestants serve their best versions of Louisiana gumbo, cracklins, and jambalaya. Visitors sample the wares (mmmmm!) and leave tickets at the booths of their favorite chefs. The cooks who get the most tickets from satisfied customers win cash prizes, but nobody seemed overly competitive at this friendly festival.
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