2 Ergebnisse.

The story of three centuries of one family, the Poliachek/Pollock Family from Lida, Belarus, is a universal story but with some surprises. Research reveals authors and merchants, musicians and lawyers, artists and teachers, but there's also the first knighted taxi driver, a gold panner, an early Chicago Zionist leader and a manager of an international pop singer. Five brothers of one family served in World War I. A Pollock might have taught Be...

The Colonel Peter Vroman house of Schoharie, New York reflects the history of its times - from the Mohawk Iroquois who first inhabited the land to Dutch slaveholders, from the Revolutionary War patriot Colonel Peter Vroman to millers establishing saw and grain mills, from an enterprising widow building an antiques business to a folk artist creating the on-site Easter Egg Museum, each lends a voice for telling the story of this house and of thi...