OT: Polka folk

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/19/2010 01:20 PM, Eric Nielsen wrote:
>Not in the winter, of course, but did Polka bands play on the boardwalk?

Perhaps on the boardwalks on the coast of the (also beautiful blue?)
Vltava of Smetana's Bohemia.

But was Bohemia ever a "country"?  At most, I think, it was a
relatively autonomous state in the HRE, although at one point Charles
IV King of Bohemia became the HRE Emperor.

Joel


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