![]() STANLEY: So it was, then, that the village began. He came to Pulaski and then decided to build, first of all, a monastery, then to build a church, and in that way to give the foundation for our present very thriving community. And our founder, Brother Augustine Zeitz, was enticed by that inducement. At any rate, he offered an inducement of 120 acres free to any community that would come to Pulaski and establish a church. 4:00įULGENZ: This is exactly sixty-seven years ago, sixty-seven to seventy. Hoff was a businessman who knew that whenever there was a church in a community of Poles, that community would grow rapidly, he advertised in Chicago and Milwaukee newspapers, and also in papers further east for a religious community to come to this community of Pulaski. ![]() Father Fulgenz presents the record, the first beginnings of Pulaski, a large pinpoint on the real estate dealer's map.įULGENZ: And because Mr. STANLEY: That's the voice of the village historian, a young man in the brown robe of a Franciscan monk, Father Fulgenz, staff member of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Monastery, O.F.M., Order of Friars Minor. John Hoff, the real estate man, wanted to get Poles to settle in this neighborhood, and so he put pinpoints on the maps that he used as advertisement and he named one Sobieski, and one Kosciusko, and of course the third one, a very large dot, was Pulaski. 3:00įULGENZ: We've often been asked why Pulaski, Wisconsin is called Pulaski. But the names on the mailboxes in Pulaski tell the story of the village and the family tree transplanted to this soil. The only names of pure American origin in Wisconsin sound like "Potawatomi," or "Sissabagama", and there's a mouthful for you. ![]() What are any of us here but a family tree transplanted from a foreign soil. What's that you say-strange-it's foreign? Sorry, friend, you're wrong, it's strictly U.S.A. Take that one, Nievzwiecki, spell it-N-i-e-v-z-w-i-e-c-k-i. And look at the names along the highway, Polish names on the billboards and the mailboxes, names like Czybowski, Goska, Karcz, Czezinsky, Kubiak, and Nievzwiecki. That one's, a rich mouthful of Polish K's. ![]() STANLEY: That's Jim Brusky, young fellow playing the accordion he plays the Polish songs strong and gay. Now with narrator, Ray Stanley, we travel to Pulaski, Wisconsin, a village founded on the marshlands of Brown County years ago, twenty miles northwest from Green Bay. We give you the people of Pulaski, Wisconsin, 900 strong, a case in point of the "American way of life."ĪNNOUNCER: The State Radio Council presents the documentary story of "Wisconsin Communities," an actual record of life in the cities and crossroads of our state, prepared from tape recordings made on the spot, to bring you the real sounds and voices of our neighbors at work and at play. Here it is for the record: what they believe, what they're doing about it, what makes them think maybe folks can live happily together. We want you to know these people, how it is for them living on Main Street of a real American town in this troubled year of 1950. We've got a sample of these people, just a few hundred of them, living in a village where two state highways meet in their 1:00wanderings through farmlands. Around here they call it the "American way of life." We'd like to tell the world about it, about the real people of the U.S.A. So, what do we do? Well, most folks are digging down and hanging on to what they've got in their corner of the earth. But there's an atom of truth in what they say. "We'd better dig down deep and hang on tight and maybe do or die." That's not much consolation. They're not smart enough to live here happily together." Some say it's all bad. You know lots of folks say, "People are no good " "They've made a mess of things here on earth. ANNOUNCER: This is a program about people, real people.
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