Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The weeklong Pulaski Days celebration kicks off Sunday in Grand Rapids. It’s a celebration of ...

NOTE: A previous version of this story indicated classes would not be held in Chicago Public Schools Monday. That statement has been corrected in this version, as classes will take place as scheduled.

On the first Monday in March, Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago’s Polish Museum of America honored the “Father of American Cavalry,” 280 years after his birth Eli Wizevich - History Correspondent The ...

In 1777, a young nobleman from Poland ventured across the Atlantic to join the fight for American independence. Known as the “Soldier of Liberty” and the “Father of the American Cavalry,” the ...