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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/program-at-music-box-explores-how-imm
 igrants-built-cleveland/
SUMMARY:Program at Music Box Explores How Immigrants Built Cleveland
DESCRIPTION:\nThu 3/20 @ 7PM\nThe current wave of demonizing immigrants —
  far from the first in a country that’s had xenophobic eras before — i
 s discouraging\, especially when viewed through the lens of local history.
  Without Slovenians\, Cleveland wouldn’t have been the polka capital of 
 North America. Italian stonecutters and bricklayers created Lake View Ceme
 tery and many other local monuments and supercharged the city’s produce 
 business. More recently\, Ukrainians put down roots in Parma\, where they 
 built several dazzling Ukrainian churches. And at one point in the late 18
 70s\, 10% of the population was Irish. These immigrants worked in steel mi
 lls\, established service businesses\, opened stores\, paved the streets a
 nd fought fires. And yes\, they were looked down on as bringing crime\, di
 sease and social dysfunction.\nSomehow\, we survived.\nDr John Grabowski\,
  recently retired from the Western Reserve Historic Society and the Case W
 estern Reserve University Department of History\, founded the Cleveland St
 ories programs at the Music Box Super Club. A lot of them focus on light\,
  popular topics such as crime\, disasters\, sports and “Haunted Clevelan
 d.” But tonight Grabowski himself will be center stage talking about “
 The Immigrant Groups That Built Cleveland\,” his own research specialty.
  The description of the program says he’ll talk about “the Slovenians\
 , Polish\, African Americans\, Germans\, Italians\, Puerto Ricans\, Irish 
 and many others who arrived in different waves… when they came to Clevel
 and\, and what their major contributions were to this magnificent city.”
  So how many hours long is this going to be??? That history is encyclopedi
 c.\nDoors open at 5 for dinner\; storytelling begins at 7. The program is 
 free\, but you’ll want to make a reservation here.\n[mappress mapid="259
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