49 Voices: Ivan Simonek of Wrangell

Ivan Simonek of Wrangell (Photo by Aaron Bolton, KSTK – Wrangell)This week we’re hearing from Ivan Simonek in Wrangell. Simonek emigrated from Czechoslovakia in the 60s.
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SIMONEK: Well the thing is that I’m probably somehow American, but born in the wrong place, ’cause I always look up to the United States as [a] land of unlimited opportunities where dreams can come true. So I wanted to become American, but in Communist system, there was no way to peacefully emi