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PGST Announces Travel Notes

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Travel Notes
by Stefan Nesterowicz
translated from
Notatki z Podrozy
Toledo, Ohio
1910

In 1909 Stefan Nesterowicz was sent as an agent by the weekly Ameryki-Echa (Echoes of America) to the South and Southwest of the United States to visit Polish settlements. His journey covered four states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Mr. Nesterowicz published his writings as Notatki z Podrozy in the next year.

Nesterowicz's original Polish version and the English translation by Marion Moore Coleman (1969) have been out of print for many years.

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The Polish People Of Thurber

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Foreword

There are perhaps a half-million people scattered throughout America who have ancestral ties to Thurber. This is the “Thurber Diaspora.” When Thurber was shutting down from 1921 to 1933, about 3,500 people had to relocate. The majority of Thurber’s coal miners moved to the Illinois coal fields or other jobs in northern cities. Others went to potash mines in New Mexico. Some went to California where there were a viriety of job opportunities. Many chose to remain in nearby Thurber Junction (Mingus) because they owned homes or they might have been involved in bootlegging. Those connected with Thurber’s oil operations moved to Fort Worth offices or to other T P Oil Co. locations in Texas.

Shutting down Thurber meant the foreign-born miners would be starting over again. But this they did with the same determination which brought them to America. With the exception of my book “The Back Road To Thurber”, the literature has been virtually void on the immigrants’ contributions to Thurber’s development. Indeed, without this predominant, industrious Eastern European work force (85% of the coal miners), Thurber might not have succeeded. By looking at some of the individual sacrifices and efforts of the early Italian and Polish Thurber immigrants we attempt to set the record straight.

Leo S. Bielinski, March 2003

Thanks to Pete Galik, Daryl Berezik and Gen. Tut Daskevich

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Sweepstakes Winner Announced

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Sweepstakes Winner Announced
August 31, 2007

A big thanks to everyone who entered our sweepstakes for $100.00 worth of Polish Heritage apparel and gifts from either the Polish Heritage Gift Shop or the Polish Texan Gift Shop.

From June 22nd to August 15th, we received 2615 entries. Each entry were assigned a number from 1 – 2615 in the order that they were received and a random number generator was used to pick the winner which was number 2448. The winner is

Gracie Napierkowski
La Habra, CA

Our next sweepstakes will begin on October 1st and end on November 30th.

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