Worcester County's Polish Community
Worcester County's Polish Community

Author: Barbara Proko

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738554549

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Polish settlement in Worcester County had humble beginnings: a small group of German Poles in the 1870s. Over the next decades, thousands of Russian and Austrian Poles, fleeing economic and political hardship, pinned their hopes for a better life on jobs in the burgeoning industries of central Massachusetts. Practicing their religion in their native tongue was vital to these devout Catholics. New Englands first Polish parish was founded in Webster, with others following in Worcester, Gardner, West Warren, Clinton, Southbridge, and Dudley. Polish clubs served as central gathering places in Gilbertville, Uxbridge, and South Grafton. Worcester Countys Polish Americans share an intricate web of relationshipsfamily, religious, business, social, cultural, educational, political, and athleticthat celebrates their heritage and sustains them today as one of the regions largest ethnic groups.

The Polish Community of Worcester
The Polish Community of Worcester

Author: Barbara Proko

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738513386

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Near the beginning of the twentieth century, thousands of Polish immigrants embarked upon the American Dream in Worcester as the city's lowest-paid mill workers. Slowly, they carved out their own "Polonia," with Millbury Street as the center. By the 1920s, Worcester's Polish community had built a parish with the largest parochial school in the county, established several civic associations, and become an influential group in the city's economy and ethnic composition. The Polish Community of Worcester celebrates the resilient and patriotic spirit of Worcester's Polonia from 1870 through 1970, with rare photographs from private collections and family albums.

America's Communal Utopias
America's Communal Utopias

Author: Donald E. Pitzer

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780807846094

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From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The co

Ordinary People
Ordinary People

Author: David Wagner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-03

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1317254945

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David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of "poverty" as people's lives change over the course of time.