The immaculate park as maintained by Joseph Hayak, an old soldier of the Indian Wars. Those crisp borders around the flower beds and sidewalks didn’t happen by machine alone. They would have required hours of hand labor with edging tools, shears, hoes, and a reel mower. Tender care and hard work created this beautiful space.
Joseph Hayek, a man worth remembering
Many a person has probably passed by a tombstone in Table Rock’s Bohemian Cemetery that marks the graves of Joseph and Johanna Hayek. That simple stone draws little more than a passing glance. Yet it marks the resting place of an ordinary man who is worth remembering. Let me brush some of the dust from his memory.
Joseph Hayek was 75 years of age when the people of Table Rock first learned that yea…
