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You dont have to stay indoors during winter in Cleveland. There are festivals, skiing, holiday events and lots more.

A sure sign of Spring in any Polish community is the arrival of the paczki (pronounced "punch-key"). These jelly-filled, deep-fried pastries, dusted with powdered sugar (something like American jelly doughnuts), are traditionally served the Thursday before Ash Wednesday. In America, the delicious pastries start appearing in bakeries and neighborhood food stores about a month in advance.

Clevelands Slavic Village offers a wonderful selection of paczki. Try the Seven Roses Deli, on Fleet Avenue.

February is Black History month and its fitting to spend this month looking at some of Clevelands African-American favorite sons. Among the most prolific is writer, poet, and playwright Langston Hughes, who spent a portion of his youth in Cleveland and who graduated from Clevelands Central High School.Hughes, born on this day in 1902, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. He also spent a time with the Paris expatriate community between the wars, with such writers as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.Perhaps his greatest contribution to the Cleveland community was his collaboration with Karamu House founders, Russell and Rowena Jeliffe. He wrote several plays for the young theater company, including the "Black Nativity," which is still performed each holiday season and has become a Cleveland tradition.