It was the most consequential election in the city’s history, yet there has been no commemoration of the anniversary. Not a ...

He studied in Krakow and Vienna before arriving in California in 1899 to visit his aunt, the Polish actress Helena Modjeska, eventually moving to New York in 1902, where he spent the rest of his life.

Modjeska helped him with money, made him give a concert in Cracow at which she recited. Some years later Baroness Helena became Paderewski’s wife. Fortnight ago she died in Switzerland (TIME ...

Near the Depression-era statue of famed 19th century actress Helena Modjeska is where a former girlfriend broke up with me. In the northwest corner is a dense cactus garden where I scratched and ...