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Newly elected Czech Heritage Club president presents local history
Using a probing rod, Fred Simon searched around his great-grandmother’s headstone in the Czech Republic. All of a sudden, he hit something. About a foot below the surface, Simon had found the footstone of his great-grandfather, Josef Polacek. This would be the first of several discoveries about Czech heritage by Simon, who became president of the Czech Heritage Club on Wednesday and presented to a roomful of people at the Rice County Historical Society on Thursday. ...
Newly elected Czech Heritage Club president presents local history
Fred Simon coined the phrase “the Bohemian Triangle” to describe the area that includes Rice, Le Sueur and Scott counties where many Czech immigrants settled in the mid-to-late 1800s. Bohemian is essentially synonymous with Czech, Simon told a roomful of…
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