May 31: Wheeling's Polish Community
On Tuesday, May 31 at noon, Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library will welcome William Hal Gorby, a PhD Student and Graduate Instructor in history at West Virginia University. Mr. Gorby will tell us about his recent article titled, “Subcultures in Conflict in Polonia: Class, Religion, and Ethnic Tensions in the Formation of Wheeling’s Polish Community, 1895–1917,” which was published in the Fall 2010 edition of West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies. Mr. Gorby, whose research has been focused on South Wheeling’s Polish American community, majors in U.S. Social and Working Class History and Progressive Era-New Deal history. His research interests include the intersections of Catholic religion, ethnicity, and the working class during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, specifically the social history of the new immigrants working in the steel mills, coal mines, tobacco factories, breweries, and smaller manufactories of Wheeling, West Virginia. Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are provided. Please call the library at 304-232-0244 for more information.
On Tuesday, May 31 at noon, Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library will welcome William Hal Gorby, a PhD Student and Graduate Instructor in history at West Virginia University. Mr. Gorby will tell us about his recent article titled, “Subcultures in Conflict in Polonia: Class, Religion, and Ethnic Tensions in the Formation of Wheeling’s Polish Community, 1895–1917,” which was published in the Fall 2010 edition of West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies. Mr. Gorby, whose research has been focused on South Wheeling’s Polish American community, majors in U.S. Social and Working Class History and Progressive Era-New Deal history. His research interests include the intersections of Catholic religion, ethnicity, and the working class during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, specifically the social history of the new immigrants working in the steel mills, coal mines, tobacco factories, breweries, and smaller manufactories of Wheeling, West Virginia. Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a bag lunch and free beverages are provided. Please call the library at 304-232-0244 for more information.
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