 American history is steeped in diversity, and in central Arkansas, that includes a sizable Polish community. Danielle of Sorda, community outreach archivist for the Central Arkansas Library System, spoke on Wednesday about Pulaski County's often-unmentioned Polish history. Settlers migrated to the state largely to escape anti-Catholic and Eastern European sentiment further north. However, at the outset of World War I, she says anti-Polish rhetoric came to Arkansas.