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interesting overview of Polish people moving and settling here in MN, Polish Americans have been part of Minnesota history since before the state's founding, Taking up farms along newly laid rail networks, Polish immigrants fanned across the countryside in small but important concentrations, In cities like Winona and St, Paul, Northeast Minneapolis and Duluth, as well as on the Iron Range, Polish American workers helped drive a growing industrial and agricultural economy, In this highly readable volume, author John Radzilowski tells the story of the Polish Americans, many of them political refugees, who created and sustained community institutions across Minnesota.
He describes how they developed a significant literary tradition, published newspapers, and built distinctive churches that still adorn the landscape, and he traces the career of individuals who immigrated with little and built businesses and new lives.
This deft overview, filled with intriguing details, shows how Polish Americans established their own cultural identity within the state, I was attracted to Poles in Minnesota by John Radzilowski's work

with the history of Lincoln County, Minnesota, My ancestors were among the firstfamilies who bought land from the railroad near Wilno,

The benefit of this book is it places my personal history in a broader context of Polish immigrant life in the Midwest.


Must reading for anyone interested in the history of immigration from Poland to Minnesota, Bill Holm was an American poet, essayist, memoirist, and musician, Holm was born on a farm north of Minneota, Minnesota, the grandson of Icelandic immigrants, He attended Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota where he graduated in, Later, he attended the University of Kansas, Holm won a Fulbright and went to Iceland for a year, which stretched into longer, He continued to visit Iceland so regularly that his friends there helped him find a house in Hofsós, His last book, The Windows of Brimnes, is about his time in Iceland, He was Professor Emeritus of English at Southwest Minnesota State University, where he taught classes on poetry and literature until his retirement in, Though Minneota was his home, Holm had travel Bill Holm was an American poet, essayist, memoirist, and musician, Holm was born on a farm north of Minneota, Minnesota, the grandson of Icelandic immigrants, He attended Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota where he graduated in, Later, he attended the University of Kansas, Holm won a Fulbright and went to Iceland for a year, which stretched into longer, He continued to visit Iceland so regularly that his friends there helped him find a house in Hofsós, His last book, "The Windows of Brimnes," is about his time in Iceland, He was Professor Emeritus of English at Southwest Minnesota State University, where he taught classes on poetry and literature until his retirement in, Though Minneota was his home, Holm had traveled the world, teaching English in China, spending summers in Iceland and late winters in Arizona, and visiting Europe and Madagascar.
Holm was a frequent guest on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie "Home Companion" radio show and some of his poems were included in Keillor's "Writer's Almanac.
"Holm was a McKnight Distinguished Artist in, an award that honors Minnesota artists for their life work, sitelink.