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      The Grasinski Girls

      Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series

       Series Editor: John J. Bukowczyk, Wayne State University

      Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, edited by Bożena Shallcross

      Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939, by Karen Majewski

      Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979, by Jonathan Huener

      The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish-Americans, 1939–1956, by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann

      The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made, by Mary Patrice Erdmans

      SERIES ADVISORY BOARD

      M. B. B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University

      Robert E. Blobaum, West Virginia University

      Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin–Superior

      Bogdana Carpenter, University of Michigan

      Mary Patrice Erdmans, Central Connecticut State University

      Thomas S. Gladsky, Central Missouri State University (ret.)

      Padraic Kenney, University of Colorado at Boulder

      John J. Kulczycki, University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.)

      Ewa Morawska, University of Essex

      Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University

      Brian Porter, University of Michigan

      James S. Pula, Purdue University North Central

      Thaddeus C. Radzilowski, Piast Institute

      Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg

      Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University

      Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University

      The Grasinski Girls

       The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made

      Mary Patrice Erdmans

       With the Grasinski Girls

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

      ATHENS

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

      © 2004 by Ohio University Press

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved

      Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper

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      Vignette photograph of Angela Helen Grasinski Erdmans and figure 7 by Andrew Erdmans.

      Cover: Top, left to right: Angel, Gene, and Mary at their home, Christmas 1956. Bottom, left to right: Fran, Caroline, Mari, Nadine, Angel, and Elaine (widow of Joe Grasinski), 1990.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Erdmans, Mary Patrice.

      The Grasinski girls : the choices they had and the choices they made / Mary Patrice Erdmans.—1st ed.

      p. cm. — (Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 0-8214-1581-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8214-1582-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      1. Polish American families—Michigan—Case studies. 2. Women, White—Michigan—Case studies. 3. Grasinski family. 4. Erdmans, Mary Patrice—Family. 5. Michigan—Social life and customs—20th century. I. Title. II. Series.

      F575.P7E73 2004

      305.8'9185'073—dc22

      2004015018

      ISBN 978-0-8214-4161-9 (e-book)

       Publication of books in the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series has been made possible in part by the generous support of the following organizations:

      Polish American Historical Association, New Britain, Connecticut

      Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish

      American Studies, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut

      Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan

      The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Inc., New York, New York

      The Piast Institute: An Institute for Polish and Polish American Affairs, Detroit, Michigan

       To Nathan Frances I pray you learn to sing

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Series Editor’s Preface

       Guide to Pronunciation

       INTRODUCTION

       The Grasinski Girls

       Part 1: Migrations and Generations

       Introduction: St. Stan’s Cemetery

       1. The Mothers of the Grasinski Girls

       Frances Ann: The Lights of the City

       2. Ethnicity in the Belly of the Family

       Part 2: Choices Given, Choices Made

       Introduction: Nuns and Moms

       Nadine née Patricia: I Gave My Youth to Jesus Christ and My Old Age to Bob

       3. What’s a Polish-American Girl to Do? Working-Class Girls in the Convent

       Angela Helen: The Best Time in My Life, and the Worst Time

       4. Mothers on Boone Street

       Mary Marcelia: I Thought I Was a Superwoman

       5. The Importance of Being Mothers

       Part 3: Learning to Sing

       Introduction: Agency and Resistance

       6. Fate and Faith

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