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PERIODICAL POSTAGE PAID AT BOSTON, NEW YORK BOSTON, AT PAID PERIODICAL POSTAGE Make Plans to Attend Jamestown Ceremony • Polish Contributions to the English Language Stephen Morse to Speak at PGSA Conference • Folk Ensembles Meet in Rzeszow • Moving Day in Hamtown Kosciuszko’s Aide, Agrippa Hull • Astronomers Follow Copernicus • A Connecticut Yankee in Poland NEWSMARK Whatever Lola Wants ... Majcherczyk Leads Puru Poland Defends Georgia Expedition Clinches Missile Deal by Robert Strybel, PAJ Warsaw Correspondent Hopes to Answer How WARSAW—Poland recently found itself in the midst of a big-po- Colca Gorge Canyon wer stand-off between Russia and NATO, ostensibly over the territorial and Valley Formed integrity of Georgia, a small, mountainous ex-Soviet Republic. Unex- pectedly, the brief military conflict helped finalize protracted 18-month- NEW YORK—Renowned inter- long Polish-U.S. negotiations on installing an American anti-missile national explorer Jerzy “Yurek” Ma- base on Polish soil. jcherczyk will lead an expedition to The confrontation was triggered the Peru’s Colca Gorge, recognized by the Georgians’ attempt to re-as- as the world’s deepest canyon, on a sert their control over the break- trip that has been compared to the away area of South Ossetia. Russia, conquest of Mt. Everest. The group which considers itself the region’s will depart from New York August “peacekeeper,” retaliated by 18, 2008. launching a military attack against Georgia. Poland was the first to re- act, and President Lech Kaczyński got the leaders of the three Bal- tic States to join him in issuing a harshly worded memorandum con- demning Russia’s aggression and calling on the European Union to forcefully oppose it. When Russian hackers silenced Georgia’s Inter-

“We have crossed The discovery of the canyon 27 the Rubicon.” years ago was recognized as one of Polish Prime Minister the greatest geographic discoveries Donald Tusk of the 20th century, and has gener- Jane Krakowski, pictured here with Sean Hayes, recently played ated much recognition and astonish- net portals, Kaczyński offered that the sexy temptress Lola in the Encores! production of the musical ment. By 2001 the canyon became country the use of his presidential Damn Yankees at City Center in New York. She appears in the sum- the second most popular tourist at- Web site, enabling Georgians to mer film Kit Kittredge: An American Girl and will begin shooting the traction in Peru, only behind the get their side of the story across. third season of the Emmy Award winning 30 Rock. See “Expedition,” page 4 Warsaw also lost no time in dis- patching planeloads of humanitar- ian aid to the mountain republic St. Stan’s, Archdiocese Polish and American Genealogical and the return flights were used to Reach Temporary Societies Begin Collaboration evacuate Polish citizens and other stranded nationals from the war- Agreement torn country. ST. LOUIS—In a compromise “The Russians should have Kaczyński also mounted a five- with the Archdiocese of St. Louis, nation solidarity mission to Tbi- St. Stanislaus Kostka elected a new been told that imperial lisi (Tiflis), the Georgian capital, board, but put off a vote on new times have ended and to lend moral support to the belea- bylaws governing how the church that if Russia does not guered Georgian people and call will be run. the world’s attention to their plight. That compromise came after a want to find itself in Poland and the Baltics were joined court hearing on August 6. international isolation, it by Ukraine which is also wary of Under the temporary agreement, the Kremlin’s imperial ambitions. the archdiocese withdrew its legal must abandon such At a massive rally outside the efforts to stop the church from elect- policy ... and that’s that.” parliament building, some 150,000 ing a new board in return for the Polish President Lech Georgians gratefully chanted “Po- church agreeing to delay the vote on Kaczynski, saying the European land, Poland, friendship, Georgia,” the bylaws. Union should have been more when the Polish head of state ad- Among other things, the pro- critical of Russia’s military dressed the crowd. He condemned posed bylaws say the Polish-heri- assault on Georgia. Moscow’s armed incursion into tage parish is independent of the St. Georgian territory, said that Russia Louis archdiocese and authorizes had again shown its true face and called on NATO, the UN and other parishioners to hire and fire their KRAKOW, Poland— 24 of this zne (Polish Genealogical Society international bodies to mount a united front in defense of Georgia’s pastor. The parish’s current bylaws year marked what is believed to of Malopolska) gathered in Krakow sovereignty and territorial integrity. Since the 18th century, both Poland say the pastor can be hired and fired be the first cooperative activity be- to hear a presentation, in Polish, and Georgia have been repeatedly subjected to Russian aggression and only by a majority vote of the par- tween a U.S.-based Polish American delivered by Prof. Jonathan Shea domination. ish’s lay board. genealogical society and one based (standing) of the Polish Genealogi- Russia’s armed intervention in the Caucases spurred the Polish gov- “The Concerned Parishioners of in Poland. Members of the Malo- cal Society of Connecticut and the See “Missile Deal ...” page 2 See “St. Stan’s” page 4 polskie Towarzystwo Genealogic- See “Collaboration,” page 4

Look for our special Christmas Bookstore Christmas is just around the corner! pages in next month’s PAJ. Three pages OPLATEK KOLEDY CDs DECORATIONS CHRISTMAS CARDS of Christmas and Holiday items to BOOKS CALENDARS T-SHIRTS and much more! make your Christmas a Polish one!  www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2008 Boston Churches Find QUOTES / compiled from news sources ALMANAC New Life as Condos SEPTEMBER BOSTON—Since the Roman WRZESIEÑ Catholic Archdiocese of Boston A Strikingly Familiar Invasion shuttered 65 parishes in a consoli- Jest to cnota nad cnotami, “... Putin is putting Russia on a Ukraine. this issue within Poland. However dation move in 2004, more than 30 trzymaæ jêzyk za zêbami. course that is ominously similar —Zbigniew Brzezinski on the there is no question that this has of the vacated buildings have been It is a virtue above all virtues to Stalin’s and Hitler’s in the late Russian invasion of Georgia, from some significance on the political sold. Many of those have gone to to keep one’s tongue 1930s. Swedish foreign minister the The Huffington Post, August level.” developers eager to turn the beau- behind one’s teeth. Carl Bildt has correctly drawn an 10, 2008. —Jim Yrkowski from TGC Cor- tiful properties into housing. The analogy between Putin’s ‘justifica- v v v porate lawyers, on a U.S. Congress transformations do not take place 1 1939. Without declaring war, tion’ for dismembering Georgia— “I had similar problems with resolution urging Eastern European without thoughtfulness, though. Nazi Germany attacks Po- because of the Russians in South Russia in the ’90s, but after Wash- land, which becomes the first nations including Poland to make Developer Tony Pace sought the country in Europe to resist Ossetia—to Hitler’s tactics vis a vis ington’s plea, I restrained from progress on legislation regarding blessing of a parish priest before armed aggression. World War Czechoslovakia to ‘free’ the Sude- making moves in that direction ... the restitution of private property. converting the 100-year-old former II begins. In time, some 900,000 ten Deutsch. That game has to be played differ- The U.S. resolutions are nonbind- Sacred Heart Catholic Church, built “Even more ominous is the anal- ently. President Saakashvili picked Americans of Polish descent ing. by Polish immigrants in 1908, in would serve in the global coun- ogy of what Putin is doing vis-a-vis wrong strategy. When a president is v v v Ipswich, Mass. “I needed to be sure ter attack. Georgia to what Stalin did vis-a-vis making such a move, he has to con- “Maybe an act of God or some- it was OK,” said Pace, 45, who was 1683. John II Sobieski led Finland: subverting by use of force sider the consequences before draw- raised Catholic in Medford. “He one was looking over our shoulder allied forces to victory over in- the sovereignty of a small democrat- ing the nation into war.” told me that if I treated it with re- vading Turks at Vienna. ic neighbor. In effect, morally and —Former Polish president Lech at Holy Trinity that it wasn’t worse Birth of poet and writer spect, there was nothing wrong with 4 1809. strategically, Georgia is the Finland Walesa, criticizing Georgian Presi- than it currently is.” Juliusz Slowacki. it.” Catholic canon law requires that of our day. dent Mikhail Saakashvili for “irre- —Elaine Kubik of Holy Trinity a church be stripped of religious 6 1921. Birth of Korczak Zi- Polish National Catholic Parish in olkowski, American sculp- “If Georgia is subverted, not only sponsibly drawing the country into items, including altars, statues, and tor best known for beginning will the West be cut off from the war after being put up to it by West- Lackawanna, N.Y. The church stee- crucifixes, before it is sold. And a monumental tribute to Crazy Caspian Sea and Central Asia. We ern politicians.” ple was hit by lightning and was set once all the items have found new Horse in South Dakota. can logically anticipate that Putin, if v v v ablaze. There was extensive dam- homes the building is available for 8 Birth of the Blessed Mother. not resisted, will use the same tac- “Well I don’t think that this par- age to the choir loft and stairway, secular use. In Polish custom, today’s birth tics toward the Ukraine. Putin has ticular document is going to have but the cross atop the steeple was In Ipswich, for example, Sacred of the Virgin is considered the already made public threats against any concrete influence on resolving undamaged. Heart was divided to make room for best day for Fall planting. two 5,000-square-foot condos. The 10 1897. Seeking collective bargain- ing and civil liberty, immigrant back unit, where the altar and sac- miners on strike were marched Missile Deal Angers Russia Lech Walesa risty once stood, was gutted to make room for a mahogany staircase. A in protest from Harwood to Lat- continued from cover its former role of one of the world’s timer, Pa. They were met by Backs Missile Deal side altar was turned into a kitchen, armed deputy sheriffs, who fire ernment to agree to host elements of two superpowers. And the stretegic, GDANSK, Poland—Lech Wale- with a special wine refrigerator. shots, killing 19 and wounding a US global anti-missile system af- energy-rich Black and Caspian Sea sa, whose Solidarity union co-ordi- “This was a 100-year-old church many others. Among the dead ter Washington consented to throw basins are an especially coveted pri- nated strikes in Poland which sent with a lot of space,” said Mike Gi- were Poles. a battery of Patriot missiles into the ze. shock waves through the Commu- rouard, a Burlington developer who 11 1382. Jadwiga d’Anjou bargain. The anti-missile shield, de- As a result, Russian troops were nist bloc, backed the U.S. weapons built the back unit. “We needed to crowned queen of Poland. signed to prevent attacks by rogue in no hurry to withdraw from Geor- deal. define the space.” 12 1921. Birth of science fiction states such as Iran and North Ko- gia even though Moscow had signed write Stanislaw Lem (d. 2006). Walesa, who won the Nobel Assured by a priest he would not rea or groups such as al-Qaeda, is as cease-fire, brokered by French Peace prize for his defiance of Com- risk God’s wrath, Pace agreed to de- 14 1951. Death of painter and illus- to include 10 interceptor missiles President Nicolas Sarkozy. And all munist regime, told London’s Daily velop one of two units at the newly trator Artur Szyk. installed in northern Poland and indications were that Russia would 15 1777. General Casimir Pu- Telegraph: “I have always support- renamed Bell Manor. The match- linked to radar installation in the continue to stir up trouble by arming laski appointed general in the ed the shield in Poland. I’m glad ing condos are on the market for American Army as result of his neighboring Czech Republic. and backing separatist movements that the thing is finalized now. There just under $700,000. “God knows,” role in the Battle of Brandy- Moscow angrily reiterated its alle- in Georgia’s break-away regions of are so many weapons on the planet Pace said, smiling, “We’ve tried to wine. gations that the anti-missile shield South Ossetia and Abkhazia, even that the Earth could be destroyed 10 do everything right.” 16 1736. Death of Gabriel Dan- was aimed against its national se- though in the eyes of international times over. iel Fahrenheit, German sci- curity and threatened to take reta- law they constitute integral parts of entist born in Gdansk in 1686, “It’s obvious we don’t need a Gypsy-Only liatory steps. The Russian foreign the Georgian Republic. new arms race but in the end, I’m and who identified himself as a minister cancelled a planned visit The Russians had hoped the Classrooms to Close Pole. in favor of the shield. The pros for to Warsaw, and one Russian general region’s instability would prevent Polish security outweigh the cons. WARSAW—Poland will close 17 1939. Soviet Russian troops actually warned that his country wo- Georgia from being admitted to attack Poland on the east bor- It’s good that the Americans will be Gypsy-only classrooms after com- der, in violation of Nazi-Soviet uld aim nuclear warheads at Poland. NATO—something they fiercely op- here.” plaints that such classes are dis- non-aggression pact. Soviets be- Nobody took the threats seriously, pose—but that plan may have back- Poland’s negotiations with Wash- criminatory. In 2004, the Council gin occupation of western terri- because an attack on Poland would fired. At NATO’s April summit in ington have been guided by fears of of Europe asked Poland and other tories. amount to an attack on NATO, to Bucharest, Romania, “old Europe” a newly resurgent Russia, an anxi- countries with Roma (Gypsy) mi- 18 St. Stanislaus Kostka. which Poland belongs, and on the gave Georgia and Ukraine only a ety that intensified with the military norities to terminate segregated After a meeting in Scran- 1900. United States, the alliance’s chief vague promise of possible member- offensive in Georgia. Polish leaders classrooms. It was revealed by Po- ton, Pa., several Roman Catholic power. ship at some unspecified future date, argued that the fighting in Georgia land’s Dziennik newspaper howev- church leaders decided to split But there seemed little doubt while a Polish-led group of alliance from Rome and form the Polish justified their demands for addition- er, that separate Gypsy classes were that the Georgian flare-up was but newcomers forcefully lobbied for al security guarantees from Wash- maintained this year in five southern National Catholic Church. a symptom of Russia’s resurgent enlargement. But following the re- 21 1945. General Dwight D. ington in exchange for allowing the and eastern Polish towns. Those in- imperial designs. The Kremlin once cent clashes, Germany’s influential Eisenhower visits Warsaw. anti-missile base on its soil. volved said that the Gypsy children 22 1980. Workers approve the again seems to regard the former Chancellor Angela Merkel flew to Not all Poles are happy with the were enrolled in separate classes be- charter of the Solidarity Labor Soviet republics such as Georgia Tbilisi and also echoed Warsaw’s missiles. Professor Karol Sikora, cause they did not speak Polish. Union. and Ukraine and to some extent for- long-standing position that Georgia medical director of CancerPart- Deputy Minister of Education 23 1947. Birth of Fr. Jerzy Pop- mer Soviet satellites such as Poland should join the North Atlantic Alli- nersUK, whose Polish father came Krzysztof Stanowski said all chil- , pro-Solidarity priest ieluszko and the Czech Republic as its sphere ance. And Sarkozy has also begun to Britain during the second world dren will be placed together re- murdered by Communist police of influence. 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JUST BETWEEN US / Mark Kohan Stephen Morse to Speak at PGSA Conference Make Plans to Attend Jamestown Ceremony CHICAGO—Stephen P. Morse, The Polish American Congress reserved and the room rate will ap- Jamestown. Phd., co-recipient of the 2008 Wi- is sponsoring a special event to pay ply to Sept. 30 and October 3, as On Thurs., Oct. 2, the bus group gilia Medal will also speak at this tribute to the Polish presence in the well as to the Oct. 1-2 dates: The begins its return to South Jersey. For year’s conference of the Polish Ge- New World. hotel is ideally situated near Colo- more information, or to make your nealogical Society of America, Sept. The commemoration will mark nial Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yor- reservation for the three-day trip, 19-20. the 400th anniversary of the Octo- ktown and Busch Gardens. call Pat Kwoka at (856) 310-1783. Morse is best known as the archi- ber 1, 1608 arrival of the first Polish Representatives of both the Unit- tect of the Intel 8086, predecessor of craftsmen to the Jamestown settle- ed States and Polish governments SPECIAL HERITAGE MONTH today’s Pentium Processor. In recent ment. The PAC’s ceremony will be and Labor Union representatives are EDITION. In addition to the 400th years, he has focused much of his held on Wednesday, October 1 at expected to attend this event, which anniversary of the arrival of Poles energies on genealogical endeavors. historic Jamestown, Virginia. will include: a wreath laying cer- on our shores, next month’s paper Most of the 15,000 people who visit Polish craftsmen, skilled in the emony at the remains of the original also pays tribute to Polish Heritage his website every day do so for his production of potash, soap, tar and glasshouse; placement of a com- Month, a national celebration of well known Ellis Island tools. More glass manufacturing, arrived at the memorative plaque at the historic Polish pride held each October and and more, however, are discovering first English colony in the New Jamestown site; indoor ceremonies sponsored by the Polish American his other gems, including one-step World at the invitation of Captain with prominent speakers and musi- Congress. The PAJ is planning a search forms for census records and John Smith, who had become ac- cal selections provided by the Polish special edition, which will feature the SSDI converters for 1920/1930 quainted with them in Europe and Singers Alliance of America; and a stories about the Jamestown settle- enumeration districts, and tools for Ted Pieczko, who was born in knew of their skills and industry. concluding reception. Publication of ment. To help offset the cost of the converting dates of the Jewish cal- Poland, and will tell of his long and Eleven years after their arrival in a commemorative journal is planned edition, we are soliciting patron ad- endar. arduous childhood sojourn from Po- 1619, the Poles successfully led as well. vertising. To show your support for Morse will present three ses- land to Siberia, Kazahkstan, Uzbeki- the first strike in the New World for All Polonia is invited to partici- a unified Polonia, we encourage you sions: “One-Step Webpages: A stan, Iran, Pakistan, India, Australia, equal rights. They had contributed pate in this historic event. For more to be part of the October paper. Give Hodgepodge of Lesser Known New Zealand, California, Mexico, so much to ensure the survival of information, contact Chairperson Arlene a call today to reserve your Gems”; “From DNA to Genetic and once again to America, growing the colony that, when advised by Debbie Majka at dziecko2@com- ad! (716) 649-3188. Genealogy: Everything you wanted up at St. Hedwig’s Orphanage in the Governor that they would be ex- cast.net or call the Polish American to know but were afraid to ask”; and Chicago. cluded from voting in an upcoming Cultural Center Museum in Phila- VETS! THE PMA MILITARY AR- “What Color Ellis Island Search Saturday’s Luncheon honors the election, said, “no vote, no work.” delphia at (215) 922-1700. CHIVES WANTS YOUR STORY. Form should I use?” PGSA’s Wigilia Award winners. This Such was their value to the colony The Polish Museum of America Also at the conference: year the honorees are Steve Morse that they were granted the right. BUS TRIP TO VIRGINIA. The Pol- encourages all veterans to submit • Larry Mayka, administrator of and Virginia Hill for their contribu- To coincide with the com- ish American Congress, South Jer- concise versions of their experi- the Polish Project, will be join- tions to genealogy in general and memorative ceremonies, the Pol- sey Division, is sponsoring a bus ences for placement in the Military ing Robert Sliwinski in his talks. Polish genealogy specifically. ish American Congress will hold trip to the Jamestown Settlement Archives of the PMA. One or two He will also explain more about Other conference features in- its Fall National Council of Direc- commemoration. The bus will be photos (scanned or copies are ac- the Polish Project, sponsored clude a Media Room, which will tors Meeting and Elections in Wil- leaving South Jersey on Sept. 30. ceptable) and/or supplemental ma- by Family Tree DNA, which at- have a wide range of products from liamsburg, Virg., on Thurs., Oct. 2, Participants will stay at the Wood- terials could be included. Send your tempts to help those of Polish the numerous vendors, and a Re- and Fri., Oct. 3, if needed. Rooms lands Hotel in Williamsburg, VA. information to: Polish Museum of ancestry understand the history search Area. at the Marriott Williamsburg (50 On Wed., Oct. 1, they will tour America, “For Your Freedom and of their families and their nation For more information, contact Kingsmill Road, Williamsburg, VA Colonial Williamsburg, and at Ours” Project, 984 N. 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Some found the letter of the 120 kilometers of the canyon, lite phones, backed up by advanced Concerned Parishioners of St. Stan- the same parish-governance struc- taped to their front doors. leaving behind the first 20 kilome- land-mobile radios. islaus Kostka. “The judge is not al- tures as others in the archdiocese. ters untouched. The prestigious Explorers Club Richard Lapinski and Janice lowing a vote to occur on the new The archdiocese and six St. Stan- “As a member of the 1981 expe- recognized the importance of the Merzweiler were the two new pa- by-laws that Mr. Marek Bozek and islaus parishioners sued the parish, dition it is time for me to come back expedition goals and awarded the his group had drafted to replace our seeking to have the parish revert to rishioners voted onto the new board to this first 20km segment, named group the Club’s Expedition Flag. existing by-laws.” its 1891 bylaws, which would give Sunday. According to Hermann’s ‘Cruz del Condor,’ which is unex- This is a very significant recogni- Bach, referring to excommu- the Roman Catholic bishop author- letter, they now face excommunica- plored to this day and remains one tion, as the Flag has been taken on nicated Roman Catholic priest Fr. ity to name the pastor and the parish tion. of the last wild fronts in our world,” various famous expeditions, such as Marek Bozek as “Mr.,” said Bozek corporation’s board. In the letter, Hermann noted said Majcherzyk. “Its exploration the moon landing, journeys to the took all references to a Roman The lawsuit says the archbishop that a Vatican decree in May said may help answer questions on the deepest parts of the ocean, and the Catholic Church out of the by-laws. has the right to appoint the pastor holding a seat on the St. Stanislaus many mysteries concerning the ge- highest of mountains. ology, hydrography and history of The results of the expedition can “That would allow them to and the board. It also would allow board “constitutes an ‘evident’ act this region.” also be very useful and important to affiliate with whatever church the St. Stanislaus corporation to of schism,” or refusal to submit to they would be interested in maintain control of the building, fi- In order to make this explora- the future establishment of the Colca the pope. affiliating with,” Bach said. “We nances and other assets. tion fruitful in all aspects of science Canyon National Park, a project that Hermann asked all the candi- want to stay Roman Catholic.” and history, Majcherczyk organized has been undertaken by academia St. Louis Circuit Judge Bryan HELLBOUND? However, at PAJ dates to withdraw their names from a team of professionals from Po- from Poland and Peru since 2003. Hettenbach approved the compro- presstime, the Associated Press re- consideration for the election, add- land, the United States, and Peru, “In addition, our exploratory ex- mise after hearing arguments in a ported the archdiocese’s interim ing “you are in danger of losing the which contains specialists of cer- pedition may play a large role in es- courtroom packed with 120 parish- leader warned parishioners running eternal salvation of your soul.” tain necessary disciplines; geology tablishing this part of the Colca Can- ioners. for the board positions at St. Stan- —compiled from news releases and hydrogeology, topography and yon’s future, as Peru is yet unknown hydrography. They will be joined to “canyoneering,” a discipline by a electronic engineer, who will gaining much popularity throughout Collaboration Begins Between Genealogical Societies be recording all measurements into the world,” said Majcherczyk. continued from cover family comes from the Lomza and nealogiczne, Mr. Zbigniew Szybka. data using state-of-the-art technol- The expedition is being sponsored ogy, such as GPS, laser rangefinder, by the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and the Northeast. Shea spoke about Bialystok areas of Poland, present- Future activities include a possible major American sources, both ar- ed the Polish Society with a copy electroscope and electromagnetic Classic Travel, Victoria Consulting genealogy teleconference between equipment. & Development, and sponsors in the chival and those on the internet, to of his newly published genealogy the two societies. the Polish audience, many of whom textbook Going Home: A Guide to “We will also carry a small labo- United States and Poland, including The Krakow-based society is one were searching for lost relatives who Polish American Family History ratory for initial analyses of water, the Polish American Journal. emigrated to the United States near- Research. The 400+ page book pro- of several regional Polish genealogi- air and rock,” said Majcherczyk. ly a hundred years ago. For some vides Polish Americans with a com- cal societies which have emerged in “Our team in- audience members, who ranged in prehensive guide to tracing ancestry the past few years. Interest among cludes a profes- age from 17 to senior citizens and to Poland. It includes sections on Poles about their roots, once a sional rock climb- er and two world included faculty members from Ja- language, using American archival frowned upon topic under Commu- giellonian University, all the infor- sources such as church records, fed- class kayakers/raf- nist rule, has been growing rapidly ters. The progress mation was new and being heard eral censuses, citizenship papers and in the past decade. for the first time. Others exhibited immigration passenger lists. A por- of our expedition a great familiarity with certain of tion of the work is dedicated to the will be reported the on-line sources such as U.S. historical geography of Poland and Police Ban Facebook by two profes- census returns, ships’ passenger the many border and jurisdictional sional cameramen, WARSAW—Poland’s police lists and the Social Security Death changes which took place over the a photographer Index. New to most was Shea’s ex- centuries. Another major portion of headquarters has banned officers and a professional planation of the holdings of Polish the textbook covers sources in Po- from using Facebook-type sites journalist—a long American parish archives and the land and how to translate documents during working hours because time editor of pad- geographical information contained that family historians will unearth in they were spending too much dling/kayaking magazines.” within to help researchers connect the research process. Further infor- time chit-chatting on it instead of back to a specific point in Europe. mation about this publication can be A d d i t i o n - working. ally, an outside Also a revelation for many, were re- found on the website www.pgsctne. Other Polish state agencies cords of fraternal organizations such org. support team, have also blocked usage of web- as the PRCUA, which often contain The lecture was arranged by the which includes a certain biographical information Connecticut Society’s European cor- sites like YouTube at the work- radio/press cor- and documentation about the policy respondent and researcher Aleksan- place to ensure that workers respondent and holders. dra Kacprzak and the president of focus on performing their profes- film director, will Shea, whose maternal side of the the Malopolskie Towarzystwo Ge- sional duties. report the prog-

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AMERICAN POLONIA AT A GLANCE Another Busy Actress go to the church. will hold its Annual Meeting, Octo- the famed Lakota leader. The me- DELAWARE MINNEAPOLIS—An evening ber 5, at PACIM’s headquarters and morial celebrated its 60th anniver- WILMINGTON— St. Hedwig’s of listening to Polish poetry in the Library at 2514 Central Avenue NE sary in June. Parish Polish American Festival original Polish and in English trans- at 1:30 p.m. There will be a review (along the Riverfront in Wilming- lations will take place September of the year’s activities and an elec- ton, Delaware), will be held Mon., 21. Poems from Adam Zagajewski, tion of officers. If you are interested PENNSYLVANIA Sept. 15 to Sat., Sept. 20, 5:00- Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Wi- in becoming more involved with PHILADELPHIA—Polish Lan- 10:00 p.m. Parking, Admission & eslawa Szymborska and others at the organization, please call Steven guage Classes will be taught at the Entertainment are free. Under the Gasthof Zur Gemutlichkeit Restau- Ukasick at (612) 822-2322 for more Polish American Cultural Center, giant tents enjoy Polish and Ameri- rant starting at 7:00 p.m. For more information. 308 Walnut Street in historic Phila- can Food, the best polka bands and information, contact Irene at (612) MINNEAPOLIS—A bus trip is delphia for the fall/winter semester. the Philly Horn Band. The festival 729-5911 being organized for the Sobieski Two levels of the Polish language also features carnival rides, games MINNEAPOLIS—Local author Lions Annual Polish Meal and focusing on conversation will be and the midway. Complete details Anthony Bukoski will be reading Dance. October 11 in Sobieski. offered. Classes will be held on on the Internet at www.PolishFes- and signing his latest book Sept. Twenty Polish dishes will be served Wednesday evenings from 6:00- tival.net. For more information call 27 at the Polish American Library, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dance from 8:30 p.m. The cost of the twelve- (302) 594-1400 2514 Central Avenue NE, beginning 7:00-11:00 p.m. to Dave Novak & week program is $135 plus book at 7:00 p.m. For more information, the Polish Choice. Dinner, dance fee. If you are interested, call for an MINNESOTA call Steven at (612) 822-2322. and bus ticket for $30.00. Leave application, Mon.-Fri. between 9:00 MINNEAPOLIS—The Pol- ST. PAUL—The Chopin So- from the North Air Event Center a.m. -5:00 p.m., (215) 922-1700. In addition to Jane Krakowski ish American Cultural Institute of ciety presents 21-year-old Sara (former Fridley KC Hall) at 6831 PHOENIXVILLE—Sacred (see cover), another busy Minnesota will bring Polish art- Daneshpour, who studied with Leon Highway 65 NE at 3:00 p.m. and re- Heart Parish Annual Festival, 148 Polish American actress is ist Joanna Sułek-Małinowska to Fleisher at The Curtis Institute for turn after the dance. It is necessary Church Street, Sat., Sept. 6. Noon to Christine Baranski (in dress), Minneapolis for a showing of her five years. Her stunning virtuos- to make reservations. Call (763) 8:00 p.m. Food, games of chance, who plays Tanya Chesham co- work at the Northrup King Gal- ity and intense musicality win the 428-9649 or email: edbudzinski@ chances for Eagles/Giants game starring with Meryl Streep in leries, 1500 Jackson St. NE, Sep- accolades of audiences and critics embarqmail.com. tickets, silent auction and much the musical romantic comedy tember 19. The opening reception and have garnered her international MINNEAPOLIS—October 26 more. Music by the Naturalistix. film— Mamma Mia! She is will be in Gallery 332 from 6:00- awards as well, including Second is the date for the Annual Polish Rain or shine. Info (610) 933-3830 also currently on Broadway in 9:00 p.m. The gathering is open to Prize at the 2007 William Kapell Soup Festival. or SacredHeartPhoenixville.net. Boeing Boeing. the public. For more information, Competition in Maryland and the The location of the Festival has PHILADELPHIA—St. Adalbert —Staś Kmieć contact Irene at (612) 729-5911. Gold Medal and Audience Prize at changed to Kolbe Hall, lower level Polish Language School Registra- ST. PAUL—The Polish Genealogi- the 2007 International Russian Mu- of John Paul II School, Holy Cross tion will be held Saturday, Septem- Registration will be held Sat., Sept. cal Society of Minnesota has a pro- sic Piano Competition in San Jose. Church complex. PACIM will be ber 6 at the Martyred Sisters’ House, 20 at the Associated Polish Home, gram on Saturday, September 20, at Since her early teenage years, she serving at least a dozen different Edgemont Street & Allegheny Av- 9150 Academy Road, Northeast the MGS Library, 1185 N. Concord has been featured in solo recitals at Polish soups with bread and desserts enue, Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, 10:00 a.m.-noon. St., South St. Paul, which will fea- Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. If there is any Philadelphia, 9:00 p.m. Call Maria Classes will resume Sat., Sept. 27. ture genealogist Danuta Jampolska, and the Smithsonian American His- soup left over at that time, it will be Koleda (610) 368-1604 for details. Info call Irene Ruczynska (215) Foreign Exchange Co-coordinator tory Museum, as well as all over sold. Tickets are $10 at the door. Do- DOYLESTOWN—Our Lady 639-5148. for the Ochota Cultura Center in Europe. lina Polish Folk Dancers (gifts) and of Czestochowa Polish Language DOYLESTOWN—Polish Fal- Warsaw. Information: Terry Kita The performance will be held Sacred Heart Church (pierogi) will School Registration will be held cons of America Day at the Na- (612) 927 0719 or terrykita@earth- Sept. 28 at 3:00 p.m. at the Janet have tables. PACIM is looking for Saturday, September 13 at the Na- tional Shrine of Our Lady of Cze- link.net. Wallace Fine Arts Center130 Ma- volunteers to make soup and also to tional Shrine of Our Lady of Cze- stochowa, Ferry Road, Doylestown, MINNEAPOLIS—The Holy calester St., (1 block west of Snel- work at the event as servers, greet- stochowa, Ferry Road, Doylestown. will be observed Sun., Sept. 28. Cross Fall Festival is looking for ling Avenue and 1½ blocks south of ers, kitchen help, table cleaners, etc. 10:00 a.m. Info call Jadwiga Koz- Mass 12:30 p.m. All are welcome to volunteers and donations for the Grand Ave.). Free parking is avail- Please call Steven Ukasick at (612) dra (215) 429-6161 or Fr. Dominik attend. Info (215) 345-0600. fancy booth, mystery gifts, and able. Single tickets: $20 / $17 FCS 822-2322 for more information. (267) 885-8834. PHILADELPHIA—A Proclama- theme baskets for its annual festi- member / $12 student (with ID). All ANDALUSIA—Sun., Sept. 14 tion Ceremony for Pulaski Day and val, September 20-21. Call the rec- tickets are for general admission is the day for St. Valentine Parish Polish American Heritage Month tory weekdays (612) 789-7238. The (open seating). To inquire about NEW YORK Family Picnic at Pulaski Park, 875 will be presented at noon on Wed., Polish Rosary is looking for new ticket availability or to make a ticket NEW YORK—NBC “Today” Mill Rd. 1:00-6:00 p.m. Music. For Oct. 1, at the Polish American Cul- articles that you perhaps received as reservation, please leave a message anchor Ann Curry climbed Korczak info call rectory (215) 535-4978. tural Center Museum, 308 Walnut gifts and didn’t need. They will be at (612) 822-0123 or e-mail chopin- Ziolkowski’s Crazy Horse Memo- Everyone is invited. St. The same day, the 400th Anni- wrapped up and sold at the Mystery [email protected]. rial, and later set off a blast on the PHILADELPHIA—Adam Mick- versary of the First Polish Settlers Gifts booth. All of the profits made MINNEAPOLIS—The PACIM mountain that will be a carving of iewicz Polish Language School in America, from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Admission is free and the public is invited to both events. PHILADELPHIA—Pulaski SUPPORT THE PAJ PRESS FUND Memorial Parade activities kick n 1971, a voluntary fund-raising campaign was launched by a group off with a Pulaski Dinner Dance, of loyal readers of the Polish American Journal entitled “We Love the Sat., Oct. 4, 2008 at the Associated PAJ Press Fund” in order to help cover rising postage, material Polish Home Ballroom, 9150 Acad- and production costs. emy Road. Cocktails at 5:00 p.m. IDonations to the PAJ Press Fund are also used to support our reader and dinner at 6:00 p.m. For info call services (postage, telephone, research, etc.), provide newsclippers with PAC at (215) 739-3408. stamps and envelopes, and cover extraordinary expenses in producing On Sunday morning, a Pulaski the paper. The Polish American Journal is not a profit-making ven- Observance Mass will be held at ture. Thanks to its dedicated staff, the PAJ is published as a “public 9:30 a.m. at the Cathedral of Ss. service” for American Polonia. Peter & Paul, 18th and the Benja- Donations to the PAJ Press Fund will be acknowledged in the paper min Franklin Parkway, Center City unless otherwise directed by the contributor. Philadelphia. This will be followed by a Tribute Ceremony. The Parade A sincere “THANK YOU” for their donations to the PAJ PRESS then steps off at 12:15 p.m. from FUND: John Dylag, West Hartford, Conn.; A.J. Jankowski, Erie, Pa.; 20th and the Parkway. Free seating Rev. Martin Stillmock, Minneapolis, Minn.; Dean Yazak, Pensacola, Fla.; at Logan Circle in the area of tele- Adam Ziemba, Utica, N.Y.; and two “Friends of the PAJ.” Dziekujemy! vision coverage on WPVI TV-6, The PAJ thanks all who donated to the Press Fund. 12:30-2:00 p.m.

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RELIGION / Benjamin Fiore, S.J. Following the Faithful Rev. John Kowalczyk, Jr., pas- campuses will replace seven exist- Beiter, a social studies teacher at Ware, Mass., celebrating 80 years. the 30th anniversary of his election tor of St. Michael the Archangel ing parish schools in Dorchester/ Springville Middle School. Anna Fr. Senior Fryderyk Banas, the to the papacy will be erected at the PNCC church for the past eight Mattapan. The school will be named Kloza, the Polish recipient, is a high pastor, celebrated the anniversary Wawel Castle cathedral in Kraków, years, is moving his parish 17 miles Pope John Paul II Academy and school teacher from Białystok in Mass. ... Msgr. A. Jaworowski of Poland in October. His former sec- south of its original location in East expects to enroll about 1,500 stu- north-eastern Poland. Sacred Heart RC Parish in Swedes- retary Stansław Cardinal Dziwisz Chicago, Ind., to Cedar Lake, where dents in September. San Francisco philanthropist Tad burg, Pa., celebrating his 64th year commissioned the work which is his congregation largely moved. Taube established the Irena Send- since ordination ... Fr. Edward being created by Gustaw Zemia, a Plans for the new church include a Steven Spielberg Honored lerowa Memorial Award to remem- Kaczorowski, St. Stanislaus Kostka Kraków Fine Arts professor. 150-seat church, a hall of the same in Kraków. The Jagiellonian ber Poland’s “Righteous Gentile.” RC Church, Wilmington, Del., on size with five classrooms and- of University has conferred an hon- The award is given to a non-Jewish the 50 anniversary of ordination and Holocaust Exhibit at fices. Despite the Polish origins of orary doctorate on film director Pole who has worked to preserve the his 80th birthday ... Msgr. Bernard Marytown. Marytown in Liber- the church, Rev. Kowalczyk’s con- Steven Spielberg in recognition Jewish heritage in Poland. The re- A. Przybocki, pastor of St. Deme- tyville, Ill., opened a mini-museum gregation dropped the designation of his fundamental humanistic val- cipient this year is Janusz Makuch, trius RC Church in Gallitzin, Pa., on chronicling the life of St. Maximi- “Polish” from its title. He says the ues, attachment to tradition and his the creator and head of the Jewish his golden jubilee ... Fr. Leo Engel, lan Kolbe. To arrange for a tour church is “open to everyone. We contribution to the preservation of Cultural Festival in Kraków. OMI, celebrating the 70th anniver- call (847) 367-7800, ext. 225. The don’t want people to think you have the memory of the Holocaust. He sary of his ordination and the 75th Franciscan friary in Libertyville is to be Polish to join.” filmed part of his film “Schindler’s Matching Grant for Plaza. anniversary as an Oblate of Mary the national shrine to St. Maximil- List” in Kraków and is a founder of The Polish Roman Catholic Union Immaculate. Born in Manitoba, ian Kolbe. Papal Calendars. The Vatican the “Survivors of the Shoah—Visu- of America agreed to match their Canada, Fr. Engel was ordained in newspaper L’Osservatore Romano al History’ Foundation” at the Univ. members’ contributions to the Car- Obra, Poland. He currently resides ADAMCZYK RECOGNIZED. In has created two calendars for 2009: of North Carolina and the “Steven dinals Square, planned for the Feli- at Mazenod Residence in Saska- recognition of her outstanding work one from the pontificate of Benedict Spielberg Film and Video Archive cian Sisters’ Madonna University. toon, Saskatchewan after working in the Polish community, the South XVI and the other from the Servant of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Walter Knysz, Jr., PRCUA mem- in Toronto and in Rome. Brooklyn Pulaski Parade Commit- of God John Paul II’s papacy. Each Museum.” ber and Chair of the Foundation tee selected Bozena Adamczyk as calendar contains 13 close-up im- Spielberg was previously award- Board at Madonna U. has pledged Sto Lat to… Lois Wonsiewicz of its Contingent Marshal. Adamczyk ages of the two popes. They can ed Poland’s International “Order of $15,000 to the matching grant fund. Good Shepherd School, Camp Hill, arrived in the United States in 1980. be ordered by e-mail by contacting the Smile” for his film work bring- Pa., on receiving the Golden Apple She currently sits on the board of the [email protected] and they cost 5 ing joy to children. MACHALSKI TO CHAIR PAPA Award honoring teachers with a Friends of Pope John Paul II Foun- euros (about $7.75). MEETING. The Polish American special devotion to Catholic Educa- dation. This year’s parade is Octo- Irena Sendler Inspires P r i e s t s tion ... Kristin Lukowski, a writer ber 5th. Pope John Paul II Name for Awards. Irena Sendler, the re- A s s o c i a t i o n for Detroit Archdiocese paper The New Schools. The RC Archdio- cently-deceased Polish World War named the Rev. Michigan Catholic, on receiving Vatican Paper Lauds Film cese of Philadelphia broke ground II rescuer of thousands of Jewish Canon Thomas a third-place award for her feature on Katyn Massacre. The of- for a new high school in Royersford, children in Poland, was remem- M a c h a l s k i , writing. ficial Vatican newspaper has offered Pa., to replace two existing high bered in two awards given to teach- pastor of St. high praise for a film on the Katyn schools, St. Pius X in Pottstown and ers in the United States and Poland. J o s a p h a t ’ s Mostly Catholic at Hart- massacre. Kennedy-Kenrick in Norristown. The awards are given to teachers Church in ford Radio Station. The Cath- The Oscar-nominated film, enti- As part of the reconfiguration of for whom teaching about the Ho- B a y s i d e , olic-owned WJMJ-FM has decided tled simply “Katyn,” is a story based the Catholic school system in the locaust and Irena Sendler’s mes- Queens, as to replace most of its non-Catholic on the historical realities of 1940, RC Archdiocese of Boston, a new sage became a mission in life. The chairman of the 2009 convention, programming with programming when Soviet troops killed thousands regional school operating on five U.S. recipient this year was Andrew which will be held in New York. from EWTN Global Catholic Net- of Polish military officers and intel- The next convention will be held work, as archdiocesan spokesman lectuals. When the mass graves were April 20-24 in Brooklyn. Fr. John Gatzak explains. About discovered in the Katyn forest, the Margaret Jusko 80% of the programming had been Communist regime made the claim Licensed Sales Associate Happy Anniversary to… produced by Protestant organiza- that Nazi troops had committed the Fluent in Polish Our Lady of Sorrows RC Church tions before the change. Despite atrocity. That claim was never ac- 1127 Wehrle Drive in Farmington, Mich., celebrating the new Catholic orientation, not all cepted by many Poles—including Williamsville, NY 14221 80 years. Joining the anniversary the Protestant programming will be director Andrzej Wajda, whose fa- 716-204-2294(office) ceremony with Adam Cardinal Mai- eliminated and Fr. 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It is a simple Hugo Kollataj and Ignacy Potocki square, Kościuszko and his battal- ka sent a letter to thing: my soul is not thankless, and and then left for Paris to engage ion swore allegiance to the uprising Kościuszko: it was you who evoked in me the first assistance. He received no back- in front of a large crowd: “Cast an eye, dear feelings of caring and love.” ing from the Girondists, a political “I, Tadeusz Kościuszko, swear friend on the date of It was not until five years after re- faction in France during the French before God and the Polish nation this letter and you turning to Poland, that the King, ex- Revolution. that I shall not use the power en- shall see that I am ecuting the law passed by the Great trusted to me for private gain, but at a place of remem- Seym, enlarged the army to 100,000 Catherine II was displeased only in defense of our borders in brance. I can not leave and appointed Kościuszko to the po- with increase in Polish regaining our independence, and in it without sending you sition of Brigadier General. solidifying the general freedoms, so news of myself and The Russian Empress Catherine military power. In 1792 the help me God!” not expressing that I II was displeased with this increase. Russian Army crossed into Besides the main motto” “Free- wish to hear the same In 1792 the Russian Army crossed Polish territory in order to dom, Entirety, and Independence” from you. I’ve been into Polish territory in order to force force the King and the Seym (Wolność, Calość, Niepodległość), here for three weeks, the King and the Seym to bend to to bend to her will. there arose another motto: “Death cast in thought of the her will. The result was a clash of or Victory!” places which evoke arms with a victorious battle in Ziel- News from Poland and procla- On April 1, Kościuszko began a such strong memories ence, lead by Kościuszko. He was mations of him as a leader of the march to Warsaw and on route pre- – both bad and good. awarded the first “Virtuti Militari” uprising obligated Kościuszko to vented two Russian armies under There are more of cross. make certain preparations. General Generals Tormasov and Devisov Part III the former, as you know well, dear Kościuszko was a sensitive com- from combining forces. by Staś Kmieć Antoni Madaliński gave the signal friend. My visits here always move mander who knew how to take ad- for the uprising to begin. He refused On April 4, 1794 the historic me to tears, and I spend hours think- vantage of the terrain and fortifica- Battle of Raclawice was fought. The Fight in Poland. to reduce his brigade and set off for ing about the past. tions in defensive battle—a method Kraków. Russian army units fol- Kościuszko was well aware the peas- Kościuszko returned to Poland a Now let me speak about you. of resistance characteristic to him. ants, armed only with scythes were richer man and swathed in glory. lowed. Prior to my departure from Warsaw Following this conquest, the Kościuszko arrived through a unbeatable in a fight against Russian Most important, he returned with there was talk of you. The king re- news that the King had agreed to artillery cannons, which could only the experience of war, and the abil- roundabout route on March 23, called the print you once gave him join the Targowica Confederation 1794. He brought with him the In- fire once during an extended pe- ity to profess his ideals of freedom and was much moved. He praised and had ordered the termination of riod of time. At Kościuszko’s com- and democracy. He reached Siech- surrection Act that he had prepared your accomplishments in America all military activities against the with Kollataj and Potocki—the doc- mands—“Capture those cannons” nowicze on August 12, 1784 and and said he absolutely has to ar- Russian Army came as a complete and “Faith to the fore,” they began would spend the next five years ument that was to be the motto for range an army commission for you. surprise. After making certain his the entire nation. running and did not allow a second there. He received no proposition The present Princess Rozalia soldiers were safe, Kościuszko re- salvo to be fired. Wojciech Bartosz from King Poniatowski, and at his The following morning at 9:00 Radzwill often speaks of you. She re- signed from his post. He left Poland he attended mass, after which he of Rzadowic even extinguished a modest family estate awaited word inforced the king’s fine temperament under the pseudonym “T. Bieda” cannon’s fuse with his own cap. of a commission in the Polish Army. pledged that he was ready to give by supporting your cause. I shall be (poor)—which was how he signed his life for his country—for the in- The heroic unit of scythe bearing He kept himself occupied by mak- content if you are convinced that no his farewell letter to his friend, Prin- peasants earned the honorable title, ing his own tools and tending the sulted majesty of the republic—for one under the sun cares about your cess Izabella Czartoryska. liberty—for independence. “Kraków Grenadier Regiment.” garden. fate as genuinely as I do. I never He went to Leipzig to discuss Next month: The Insurrection On May 22, 1789, his beloved At approximately 10:00 the same think of you without my soul and strategy for a planned uprising with morning, in Kraków’s main market and Final Chapter

KULTURA / Staś Kmieć Polish Language and Culture Classes COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, US Groups Participate in Rzeszów Festival Minn.—The Columbia Heights The XIV World Festival of Po- structured were the norm. Sister Cities Committee holds free lonian Folk Ensembles recently Today with unlimited resources informal Polish classes from 6:30- took place in Rzeszow. Attending (books, DVDs, CDs, and internet) 8:00 p.m. in the Gauvitte Room were song and dance groups from available, along with Poland’s pro- of Murzyn Hall on the second and third Monday of each month start- Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Czech motion of folklore in highly modern Republic, France, Germany, Great ing in September. Ania Antus will be techno terms, it appears there are teaching. This year, instead of start- Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, many troupes that are now interest- Romania, Sweden, Ukraine, a re- ing at the beginning, there will be ed in stylization without substance, cord twelve from Canada, and seven a couple weeks of review. Lessons from the United States including: and present glossy imaginative will then continue with Lesson 9 in Krakowiak (Boston), Krakusy (Los renditions with disregard to valid the We Learn Polish text by Barbara Angeles), Polanie (Detroit), Po- source material; however there are Bartnicka. The group expects that lonia (Chicago), Wawel (Detroit), still groups that cling to maintain any new students will have some Wesoly Lud (Chicago) and Wici true and original work. basic familiarity with Polish and (Chicago). It is an unfortunate trend. There will be able to start at that point. This year’s festival was very had always been three levels of stan- For information call Gil Mros at different for me, personally, said dards for stage presentations of Pol- (763) 571-1166. Andrea (Pierce) Haber, the direc- ish folk material: professional. Styl- MINNEAPOLIS—Polish 1101 tor of Krakowiak of Boston. “It’s Krakowiak Polish Dancers of Bos- Chicago’s Wici Ensemble in an ized, theatrical companies such as Beginning Polish (5 credits) will be the first time I’ve attended as the ton in an Opoczno Suite at the American Cold Mountain Suite in Mazowsze and Śląsk, regional and offered by the University of Min- nesota in Folwell Hall on the East director of a group, with all the ad- XIV World Festival in Rzeszow. Rzeszow. student folk companies, and Polonia ditional responsibilities that entails, Bank on Tuesdays from 6:10-9:30 director. Haber. “Their hospitality inspires ensembles around the world, which p.m. beginning September 2. The and because I couldn’t stop compar- promoted Polish song and dance, as ing it to the first festival that I at- “The groups have improved over our dancing and makes us long for instructor is Professor Leonard Po- best as they could, and with the goal tended in 1969. Going to Poland at the years and are now better techni- the next festival.” lakiewicz. Senior citizens 62 and that time was exotic, an adventure, cally and musically. It is gratifying to educate audiences abroad of the older wishing to audit the class for a step into the unknown. People to see the work of other groups.” Comment: Upon viewing 4 beauty of Poland’s true folk culture - $10 per credit should attend the first warned us that we’d be brainwashed At the festival a conference took hours of footage of the national and a culture which was threatened with class and get the instructor’s permis- by the Communists! Most of the place regarding aspects of Polish gala concerts on TV Polonia, I have complete extinction during the peri- sion to attend before registering. For Krakowiaks at that time were born dance culture and its promotion. In concluded that there has been a no- ods of World War and Communism. registration information, call (612) in the USA. We had no idea what addition to speakers from Poland, ticeable and distinct evolution of the —S.K. 624-4000 or 625-1384. to expect when we got off the plane. Sweden, and Russia, Misia and Rzeszów festivals. In 1971, when I This year it was a return to visit old Richard Jamiński, directors of Weso- first attended as a child spectator, friends, both from Rzeszów and ly Lud of Chicago spoke on “Ameri- ensembles presented Polish folklore Andzia’s Amber from Polonia around the world.” can Association - the popularization with very limited resources. They The groups presented dances from of folk ensembles.” “How can we were proud and eager to exhibit and Jewelry P.O. Box 468 various regions of Poland, along revive Polish folk dance,” which ad- share their work and to grasp any Chincilla, PA 18410 with a special program of dances dressed the emminent demise of Pol- knowledge of authentic presentation from the homeland residence. Chi- ish folk dance as a recreational activ- offered to them by folk authorities 877-586-6599 cago’s Wici Ensemble exhibited a ity, was presented by Andrea Haber. and regional experts. always toll free stylized American Cold Mountain “The festival is a colorful, hectic, Later, when I attended as a direc- International callers Suite. exciting frustrating and exhaust- tor with my ensemble, Lubliniacy in 570-346-4568 “This is our second time to the ing week. 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Polish Arts Club Hosts Artists. (l. to r.): Co-chair “Fire and Ice” Benefit. (l. to r.): Alicia Dutka, PMA PNA officers and honorees of 2008 “25 Club.” Jolanta Pawlowski, First Place winner Urszula Lelen, and president Maria Ciesla, and Mary Anselmo. president Vivian Walkosz. CHICAGO—On August 3, with $100 to numerous Honorable and collections. Kudos to Co-chairs iow (26 years). Each of the honorees ing composition was presented to the Polish Arts Club of Chicago Mention artists. This collection of Mary Anselmo and Alicia Dutka for received a certificate of appreciation Chicago’s classical music-loving opened its 72nd Annual Fine Arts fine arts will be on exhibit at PMA making this benefit a success. from the national officers along with public. The overflow crowd heard Exhibition and Sale at The Polish until August 30, 2008. a special gift. They join other cur- Rachmaninoff’s “The Bells” sung Museum of America (PMA). Ap- PNA EMPLOYEES JOINS THE 25 rent employees who have already proximately 250 patrons had the “Fire and Ice” Benefit. The CLUB. On July 3, a special celebra- reached this 25-year milestone. by renowned Polish soprano Joanna opportunity to view outstanding Polish Museum of America held its tion for employees of the Polish They include Bozena Karkowski (29 Kozlowska along with American artwork of twenty-nine Chicago “Fire and Ice” soirée to benefit the National Alliance (PNA) was held years), Mary Srodon (30 years), and tenor and baritone Bryan Graffie and area artists as they exhibited over 80 Museum’s Paderewski Room Reno- at its national headquarters in Chi- Robert Jadach (35 years), as well as Darren Stokes. This performance, paintings and sculptures. vation Project. On July 25, approxi- cago to induct ten employees into Caroline Dybowicz and Halina Or- as are all Grant Park Music Festival A jury, comprised of Jerzy Kenar mately 100 guests had the pleasure the PNA’s 25 Club, which honors zel Orlicz who have served the PNA concerts, was held in the Jay Pritzker and Jan Brud, internationally known of tasting an array of Polish Vodkas employees who have served with for over 50 years. Congratulations Pavilion located in Chicago’s Mil- sculptor and artist, along with art- donated by Stawski Distributors the PNA for over 25 years. PNA to all. ist and scenographer Jan Sliwin- and enjoy desserts, also donated, by Pres. Frank Spula, Vice-Pres. Paul lennium Park. New since 2004, this ski, awarded Urszula Lelen of Des Eli’s Cheesecake Company, both of C. Odrobina, and Treasurer Marian Chicago Polonia’s Rare state-of-the-art music pavilion, de- Plaines, Ill. with First Place recogni- Chicago. Additionally, guests had Grabowski, honored the following Cultural Opportunity. On signed by internationally renowned tion, Antonia Radzieda of Chicago the opportunity to view and pur- for their years of dedicated servic- July 11, Chicago Polonia had a rare architect, Frank Gehry, has been a with Second Place, and Charlotte chase outstanding Polish and Czech es: Halina Biezychudek (30 years), and wonderful opportunity to hear popular summer destination for tens Sussar of Glenview Ill. with Third Republic crystal. Naturally, newly Anna Rylski (27 years), Maryla Karol Szymanowski’s “Stabat of thousands of Chicago area music Place. Vivian Walkosz, President digitalized Paderewski recordings Slomski (27 years), Barbara Koryt- Mater” performed by the Grant lovers. First conceived in 1931, this of the Polish Arts Club and Jolanta were played during the evening’s kowski (27 years), Joan Oskorep Park Symphony Orchestra and Cho- Pawlikowski and Lidia Rozmus, event. The Museum hopes to raise (27 years), Victor Modlinski (27 rus. What made the performance so music festival is the “nation’s only Co-chairs of this event, presented $250,000, the cost of renovating years), Maria Sloniec (26 years), special was the fact that this entire remaining free outdoor classical monetary awards of $500, $300, and the Paderewski Room, as well as Jadwiga Grcic (28 years), Sophie masterpiece was sung in POLISH. music series.” Each concert attracts $200 to the placed winners, along conserving its priceless artifacts Gajda (28 years), and Robert Stan- Again, on July 25, another outstand- about 5,000 to 8,000 attendees. Grant Will Help Polish Immigrant Women in United States “Angels on Our Shoulders” CHICAGO—The Legion of count on. Many of PAA’s clients are Since 1922, the Polish American BRICK, N.J.—There are many Doma Export, who offered a cor- Young Polish Women (LYPW) an- troubled women, single mothers or Association has been providing a angels among us. Each and every ner of his warehouse. nounced the availability of a $5,000 domestic violence victims, trying to comprehensive range of bilingual one of us has a guardian angel, but Eventually, after its entrance grant in support of the Polish Amer- adapt to life in a new country while and bicultural human services to surely, there are those angels who into the European Union, Poland ican Association’s program to con- struggling with various personal is- the Polish community and others in watch out for the less fortunate, had to adhere to the regulations tinue providing vital counseling ser- sues. The grant from LYPW will be need. Major program areas include the sick, and those who need help. concerning medical supplies and vices to Polish immigrant women. used to partially defray the costs of Social Services, Education, Employ- And so, for the twenty-three equipment as required by the For hundreds of newcomers try- counseling services for 300 women years of its existence, the Polish European Union. This caused a ment, Immigration, Information and ing to overcome cultural, language, this year. Children’s Heartline has accumu- change from purchasing from U.S. and financial barriers, the PAA, a By renewing their commitment Advocacy. Each month, more than lated many angels who care about manufacturers to buying from Pol- non profit human services organi- to PAA’s Women Services Program, 3,000 individuals receive assistance the little angels in Poland who ish or European companies. Thus zation located on south and north the Legion demonstrates its strong from the non-profit organization’s need help—the medical aid which far, Polish Children’s Heartline has side of Chicago , is often the only ties to the Polish community and a 31 programs. For more information, will make them healthy. been successful in providing the place of hope and support they can fierce sense of social responsibility. please visit www.polish.org. From its humble beginning, this Polish hospitals with their needs organization has sent shipments to through purchases made mainly in several hospitals in Poland. Ship- Poland, thus not only helping the St. Stephen the King Celebrates Centennial ments which, at first, consisted of hospitals, but also Poland’s econo- OSWEGO, N.Y.—Ethnic pride dinner at the Oswego Country Club who established an enclave here on desperately needed surgical masks, my. And so, the angels continue to and a century-long commitment to the same evening. At the dinner, the the picturesque southwest corner of gloves, and disposable syringes, all watch over us. God are the hallmarks of St. Stephen centenary was honored by a Papal the city where they could build a of which were repeatedly re-steril- The success of the Polish the King parish, Oswego, which cel- Blessing from His Holiness, Pope new way of life in freedom. They ized until they could no longer Children’s Heartline in provid- ebrated its centennial in June 2008. Benedict XVI, presented by Rev. came mostly from the southern part serve their purposes. Gradually, ing a second chance to thousands This milestone was commemo- Amedeo G. Guida, parish Admin- of Poland, the province of Galicia. equipment such as heart monitors, of children in Poland was—and rated with a special Mass of Thanks- istrator, followed by a special proc- Each family had their own veg- defibrillators and infusion pumps is—only possible because of the giving on Sat., June 21. Rev. Arthur lamation read by the Mayor of the etable and flower gardens and farm were purchased (in some cases, patronage it receives from Polonia Hapanowicz, the last living former city of Oswego, Randolph Bateman. animals to keep touch with the land, donated) and shipped to Poland. and many generous individuals. It pastor of St. Stephen the King parish In his proclamation, the mayor hon- while also working in the many fac- Word spread about the angels is estimated that over $15 million and present pastor of Holy Trinity, a ored the founders of St. Stephen’s tories and mills in Oswego. They of Polish Children’s Heartline dollars in medical and surgical large ethnic Polish parish in Utica, for their hard work, determination also founded their own businesses and others wished to assist them. supplies has been provided to the N.Y., was the celebrant. The Very and strong faith. as artisans, carpenters, masons and American hospitals, which were hospitals. Reverend James Moynihan, Bishop Founded by Polish immigrants in shopkeepers. Numerous groceries, refurbishing their own equipment, One of the major fundrais- of the Diocese of Syracuse, hospital- 1908 in what was then a busy port two bakeries and many busy tav- donated items. Now, volunteers ers for Polish Children’s Heart- ized with an illness, was represent- and railroad center bustling with erns crowded their neighborhood were needed to pick up the do- line is its Annual Luncheon, held ed by his secretary, Rev. Andrew booming industries, St. Stephen’s called Polska Gora, or Polak Hill, nated goods at the hospitals and every September at the Robert Baranski, who concelebrated and has grown into a cosmopolitan par- by which it is still known today in a truck had to be rented for each B. Meyner Reception Center in read the Second Reading in Polish. ish where people of all backgrounds these “politically correct” times. pick-up. Again, more angels ap- Holmdel. This year the event will Fr. Hapanowicz delivered a homily are welcome. Newcomers are at- St. Stephen’s present Adminis- peared to give aid. take place Sunday, September 14. in both Polish and English. At the tracted by the strong faith communi- trator, Fr. Amedeo G. Guida, is of Since all of these supplies had Hopefully, many more angels will conclusion, Fr. Baranski presented a ty and its pious approach to religion Italian descent and the first non-Pol- to be inventoried and packaged be- appear and join us at this event. personal message and blessing from coupled with the colorful Polish tra- ish pastor. He has been a champion fore shipment, a space was needed For more information please Bishop Moynihan. ditions which they find here. of preserving the Polish character of where this could be performed. call Alexandria Patras at (732) The Mass was followed by a re- Church founders were mostly of the parish while welcoming new- A new angel appeared in the per- 341-5044 or Ron Syslo at (732) ception in the church hall and a gala peasant stock, workers of the land, comers into the parish family. son of Mr. Ludwik Wnekowicz of 680-0680.

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Former Erie County of reference materials concerning of St. Faustina. ber edition) at: POLEGL, P.O. Box Stanek is president and founder Legislator Ray Dusza was recog- Polish Americans and their family Toronto’s Bialy Orzel White 223, Niagara Square Station, Buf- of Stand Advertising. nized for his efforts in securing the histories ... St. Adalbert’s Parish Eagle Song & Dance Ensemble falo, N.Y. 14201-0223. My e-mail Active in the community, here funding for the Lt. Col. Matt Urban in Buffalo marked the centennial of performed on the Pizza Pizza In- address is: [email protected]. participation has included serving Memorial in Downtown Buffalo ... its achieving “basilica” status with ternational Stage at the Canadian For more information on what’s on the gala board for the Make-A- Corpus Christi Parish hosted the a Mass of Celebration on August 10 National Exhibition on the 25th ... going on in the Polonia of the East- Wish Foundation, an organization Ychtis Girls’ Song and Dance En- ... Also on the 10th, the Kosciuszko On August 30 and 31, the Broad- ern Great Lakes, including a calen- for which she raised money by liv- semble from Katowice on July 24 Club and Dom Polski in Dunkirk way Grill Reunion II took over the dar of upcoming events, an organi- ing on a billboard for 30 hours. In and 25, and celebrated Matki Boski held their joint picnic at the East Lamm Post Grove. This year’s in- zational directory and interesting addition, she’s on the UBMD Board Ziejnej (Blessed Mother of the Town Firegrounds. stallment provided the music of the links, visit my website at: www. of Directors and is artistic director Herbs) on August 15 ... Erie County Jack and Carol Kopczynski Boys From Baltimore, Knewz, Da- polegl.org. of the Harmony Polish Folk En- Judge Michael Pietruszka has been and Walter Wozniak were granted vid “Scrubby” Seweryniak, Larry semble. endorsed by all five of Erie County’s Honorary Life Memberships in the Trojak, Dave “Nigel” Kurdziel, Al political parties and is running unop- North Tonawanda History Museum Piatkowski, Tom Wanderlich, Tom posed in his bid for re-election to the in recognition of their significant Picciano, Mike Burka and Jerry St. Stephen the King Celebrates Centennial county court in November ... Ray contributions to the museum ... Darlak & the Touch ... Anyone inter- OSWEGO, N.Y.—Ethnic pride Blessing from His Holiness, Pope Serafin’s Brass Magic performed WNY’s Polish veterans marked ested in joining the Bishop Turner and a century-long commitment to Benedict XVI, presented by Rev. at the St. Stanislaus Kostka Polish Polish Soldiers’ Day with a Mass High School Alumni Association God are the hallmarks of St. Stephen Amedeo G. Guida, parish Admin- Festival in Rochester on August 1 at St. Stanislaus Church in Buffalo should contact Tom Ahearn at (716) the King parish, Oswego, which cel- istrator, followed by a special proc- and 2 ... The Buffalo Bisons Base- on August 17 ... Holy Trinity Par- 681-2414 or Hank Stahl at (716) ebrated its centennial in June 2008. lamation read by the Mayor of the ball team honored Jackie Schmid ish in Erie, Pa., held its 15th Annual 822-2676 ... Ronald Brodowski of This milestone was commemo- city of Oswego, Randolph Bateman. as their Polish American of the Year Polish Summer Festival, with the Elma has become the newest Na- rated with a special Mass of Thanks- In his proclamation, the mayor hon- for 2008 at the team’s “Polish Festi- music of the Knewz and Dynabrass, tional Director of the Polish Union giving on Sat., June 21. Rev. Arthur ored the founders of St. Stephen’s val Night” on August 5. during the fourth weekend of Au- of America. Hapanowicz, the last living former for their hard work, determination Hon. Diane Finley, the Canadi- gust ... That same weekend, Buf- The General Pulaski Associa- pastor of St. Stephen the King parish and strong faith. an Minister of Citizenship and Im- falo’s Corpus Christi Parish hosted tion will hold its 36th Annual Ban- and present pastor of Holy Trinity, a Founded by Polish immigrants in migration, was the keynote speaker its 29th Annual Dozynki Polish quet at the Creekside Banquet Facil- large ethnic Polish parish in Utica, 1908 in what was then a busy port at the Canadian Polish Congress’ Harvest Festival. The festivities ity in Cheektowaga on September 7. N.Y., was the celebrant. The Very and railroad center bustling with Annual Fundraising Dinner at the included a special Dozynki Mass This year’s event will honor WNY Reverend James Moynihan, Bishop booming industries, St. Stephen’s John Paul II Polish Cultural Centre of Thanksgiving and performances Polish Americans involved in athlet- of the Diocese of Syracuse, hospital- has grown into a cosmopolitan par- in Mississauga, Ontario on the 7th ... by Al Kania’s Polka Smile Eastern ics: Hon. Ed Rutkowski, Hon. Hen- ized with an illness, was represented ish where people of all backgrounds The Polka Variety Club’s monthly Style, Those Idiots, Joe Macielag ry Nowak, Thomas Tarapacki, Hon. by his Secretary, Rev. Andrew Ba- are welcome. Newcomers are at- meetings have been moved to the & the Pic-A-Polka Orchestra, Ivan Bill Stachowski, Dr. Edward Gice- ranski, who concelebrated and read tracted by the strong faith communi- Lily of the Valley Hall, located at Docenko, Mary Kate O’Connell and wicz, Bob Pacholski, Len Jankie- the Second Reading in Polish. Fr. ty and its pious approach to religion 2379 Union Road in Cheektowaga the Krakowiacy Dancers ... August wicz, Mike Buczkowski, Hon. Gus Hapanowicz delivered a homily coupled with the colorful Polish tra- ... On August 8 and 9, the Queen 24th brought the 20th Annual Owl Franczyk, the White Eagle Soccer in both Polish and English. At the ditions which they find here. of Peace rectory on Buffalo’s East Family Picnic to Williamsville’s Team, Lauren Korniczky, Joshua conclusion, Fr. Baranski presented a Church founders were mostly of Side held an estate sale. This is one Lamm Post Grove. This benefit Jesowowski, Carlene Sluberski, personal message and blessing from peasant stock, workers of the land, of the parishes closed during the for local charities featured the Ed- J.J. Pincoski and Gene Mruk ... The Bishop Moynihan. who established an enclave here on Buffalo Diocese’s Journey in Faith die “O” Orchestra, New Yorkers WNY Division of the Polish Amer- The Mass was followed by a re- the picturesque southwest corner of and Grace ... The Polish Genea- with CJ Luksch, Jerry Darlak & ican Congress will hold its Fall ception in the church hall and a gala the city where they could build a logical Society of NYS (PGSNYS) the Touch, Nickel City Notes, City 2008 General Membership Meeting dinner at the Oswego Country Club new way of life in freedom. They marked its 20th anniversary and Side, Buffalo Concertina All Stars, at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in the same evening. At the dinner, the came mostly from the southern part the opening of the Michael Drabik Rare Vintage, Tony Krew, Danny Rochester on September 13. centenary was honored by a Papal of Poland, the province of Galicia. Memorial Library Collection at the Neaverth, Accordion Bill, David If you have an item for this col- Each family had their own veg- etable and flower gardens and farm Polish-English animals to keep touch with the land, Translator while also working in the many fac- tories and mills in Oswego. They • Official documents, letters, also founded their own businesses e-mails, etc. • Reasonable rates. as artisans, carpenters, masons and • Fast, reliable service by e-mail shopkeepers. 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HAMTRAMCK BEAT / Michelle Odrobina-Jiompkowski It’s Moving Day, Sooner or Later, for a Number of Groups Across Hamtown The Piast Institute is in the pro- Texas. stone. Thanks to Heide Zdral and and his wife Lori Ulman moved the St. Albertus National Historic cess of moving to its new headquar- Founded in early 2006, HATCH Chris Wilinski and other cat lovers, from Hamtramck to Hawaii several Site is preserved for future genera- ters at the old Pieronek Studios in plans for the renovation of the old the group has secured the medical years ago and recently paid a visit tions. Hamtramck. The organization will police station are ambitious. Sch- treatment the animals need, along to the area. A professional magician, have more space in which to house neider said, “We would like to turn with finding foster and permanent Al The Only performed his magic PERSONAL MUSINGS. I had a a library and conduct classes for it into an art center.” Art gallery, stu- homes for the felines. H-CAT may act for the crowd at the Orchard chance to take in the July 26 perfor- children in art and other subjects. dio, kiln, printing press, all figure in be reached at hamcat.org. Lake Schools Founders Day and at mance of the youth who attended the the OLS alumni association picnic. As a Piast board member, Joann his vision for the makeover. Bau- week-long Polish National Alliance Pieronek of Hamtramck facilitated mann said that HATCH already STO LAT. Following the Centen- summer course at OLS. Among the the group’s moving into what was has a purchase agreement with the nial Observance Mass at 11:00 a.m., GRANT WIN. According to Mat- her family’s long-standing photog- city. Schneider added that the Ham- Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008, St. Florian’s thew Baka of the Polish Ameri- 154 students who attended was my raphy business. tramck City Council already agreed Centennial Banquet will be cel- can Historic Site Association, on niece Katrina Odrobina of Chicago, to the purchase site option - this was ebrated at the American Polish Cen- May 28, 2008, the association was formerly of Hamtramck. AVAILABLE ONLINE. The Citizen, in February of this year. Starting in tury Club, 33204 Maple Lane Dr. in awarded a $7,500 grant by the Na- I remember attending a PNA Hamtramck’s 74-year-old news- June 2008, the HATCH board de- Sterling Heights. For more informa- tional Trust for Historic Preserva- Jamboree at Alliance College one paper can now be viewed online at cided to start work on the rehabilita- tion, visit www.stflorianparish.org tion from its Cynthia Woods Mitch- summer years ago, and meeting hamtramckcitizen.com. tion of the building themselves and or e-mail the office@stflorianpar- ell Fund for Historic Interiors. This many new friends, with whom I still to work on funding through apply- ish.org. seed money will be used for the St. keep in touch like Kasia (Sosnows- HATCH HATCHED. Hatch, a Ham- ing for grants, and other sources. Albertus Historic Site Interior Res- ki) Fogarasi of Philadelphia. It was tramck Art Collaborative, is busy PNA YOUTH COURSE. Polish toration Plan. Founded in 1872, St. a wonderful experience. working on renovations to the old Schneider, originally from Nebras- American youth came from eight Albertus is Detroit’s oldest Polish Back to this summer and OLS: Hamtramck police station The po- ka, said, “The idea is to help Ham- states to the Orchard Lake St. Mary Catholic parish. Praise goes out to all who pass on lice department is located in the tramck develop a reputation as a hub campus to study Polish history, cul- The Polish American Historic their love of Polish heritage and tra- Hamtramck City Hall. for artists.” Baumann, a Hamtramck ture and traditions, Polish song and Site Association is a 501-c(3) non- ditions to the youth. During a steamy July night at Cafe resident for eight years since mov- dance, and crafts such as Pysanki profit organization established to 1923, the president of the arts group, ing from Clarkston, Michigan, said, from July 19-July 26 in the city of preserve the St. Albertus Historic Also, if you’re in Michigan on Chris Schneider and the group’s “We do (art) gallery crawls,” and Orchard Lake. site. St. Albertus Church Parish was Labor Day, Monday, September 1, secretary, Suzanne Baumann, spoke added that artists can sell their wares Sponsored by the Polish National closed in 1990 and now operates as come out to watch our annual Polish about the short and long-terms plans at different sites, including the Ham- Alliance, approximately 150 youth a museum of cultural history. Day Parade that begins at 1:30 p.m. for HATCH at their regular meeting tramck Labor Day Festival. She studied and learned about their Pol- PAHSA is excited and believes at Joseph Campau and Holbrook. spot. On the coffeeehouse walls, an showed a visitor an impressive ex- ish heritage and customs. A PNA that this money will actively ensure Until my next column, Happy exhibit called “Cranbrook Moves ample of her cartooning skills with a National Vice President Teresa N. that the heritage and architecture of trails to you from Hamtown! South” spotlighted the varied and series of small sketches. ”We would Abick began the program over nine striking artwork by the instructors love to have new members,” Sch- years ago, according to Michigan and staff at the Cranbrook Acad- neider added. To contact HATCH, PNA Director Barbara Martin. HISTORY emy of Art’s Summer Art Institute visit www.hatchart.org. This was the seventh PNA Youth in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Sch- Incidentally, the St. Rose Quil- Course offered since every fourth neider and a colleague, Tim Eads, ters Club comprised of seniors, year a dance festival is presented Kosciuszko’s Aide, Agrippa Hull taught a summer art course geared meets at the coffeehouse, according instead of the course, Martin said. toward teenagers at institute. to Sean Kowalski of Cafe 1923. The PNA Directors Martin, Art Trybek by Ed Dybicz Schneider focuses on photogra- club uses the backroom to work on and Mary Srodon coordinated and General Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a phy while Baumann concentrates on their quilts on a weekly basis. For supervised the week-long course Polish engineer officer in the Amer- cartoons. Eads, originally from Tex- more about Cafe 1923, visit www. which was capped by a program at ican Revolutionary Army, designed as, studies full time at Cranbrook cafe1923.com. the St. Mary’s Athletic Complex/ the fortifications of West Point, now and specializes in design ceramics Dombrowski Fieldhouse, July 26. the United States Military Academy, and screen printing. His artwork of H-CAT ANNIVERSARY. Ham- Martin noted that Aleksandra among others. two blue-colored zebras was on dis- tramck’s cat rescue group, the Prochor and Allison Kramer of- When Kosciuszko came back to play as part of the exhibit. He taught Hamtramck Cat Assistance Team, ficially opened the course with the the United States in 1797, he wrote art in high school while living in H-CAT, marked its fifth year mile- singing of the Polish and American a will pertaining to the freeing of national anthems. Wanda Penar blacks, a first recorded instance. worked with the teachers and over- The will written May 5, 1798 in part POLISH AMERICAN saw the books and classroom events. read: Anna Kokoszka and Mariusz Sza- “I do hereby authorize my friend, jnert taught Polish history, culture Thomas Jefferson, to employ the CULTURAL CENTER whole thereof in purchase of Ne- 308 WALNUT STREET and traditions. Szajnert serves as the president of the Polish American groes from among his own, or any PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 Congress, Michigan Division with others, and give them liberty in my Hamtramck headquarters. Sher- name, giving them education, in An 1840s oil painting of Agrippa (215) 922-1700 ry Cauchon and Wendy Chrobak trade and otherwise, and in having When You’re in Philadelphia’s Historic Hull, based on a March 18, 1844 taught Pysanki. Dorota Suchocka them instructed for their new condi- daguerreotype by Anson Clark. District, Visit The Polish American and Bozen Jedlinska taught sing- tions in the duties of morality, which Cultural Center Museum Exhibit Hall ing. Dance teachers were Kazimi- will make them good neighbors, was patriotic and joined the Ameri- Featuring Polish History and Culture erz Gorczak and Halina Misterka. good fathers and mothers or hus- can Revolutionary Army when Gen. bands and wives, and in their duties John Patterson of Lenox, Mass. OPEN 10:00 a.m. TO 4:00 p.m. • FREE ADMISSION Other assistance came from nurse January through April • Monday to Friday Anna Wierzbicki, sports coordina- as citizens, teaching them to be de- called for volunteers. Hull went with May through December • Monday to Saturday tor Leszek Jedlinski and assistant fenders of their liberty and country. Gen. Patterson to West Point where Gift Shop is Open During Regular Exhibit Hall Hours Suzanne Mierzejewski. I make said Thomas Jefferson my he was named an aide to Kosciusz- Closed on Holidays executor of this will.” ko and to Washington and Lafayette Visit Us on the Internet: www.polishamericancenter.org FROM HAMTOWN TO HAWAII. The will provided for the educa- when they visited there. Professional magician Al The Only tion and emancipation of the blacks, After the American Revolution, a first such action. Thomas Jefferson Kosciuszko returned to Poland to www.polishamericanstudies.org filed the will in Albermarle County fight for that country’s freedom. He PAHA Circuit Court. The matter of adjudi- took Agrippa Hull with him. In the cation was eventually transferred to Philadelphia Gazette, dated June 8, The Polish American Histocial Association the Orphan’s Court of the District of 1796, the following news item ap- was established in December 1942 as a special Columbia. peared: “Kosciuszko and his friends commission of the The Polish Institute of Arts An administration paper was remain prisoners at St. Petersburg, and Sciences in America to collect, compile and later issued by the Orphan’s Court Russia. In his misfortune, one com- publish information about Polish Americans. in Washington, D.C., to Benjamin panion remained with him, and that In October 1944, it was reorganized as a na- tional American society to promote study and L. Lear, an attorney, who made an is a Negro who came with him from research in the history and social background of agreement with a group called “The the United States of America and has Americans of Polish descent. The Association, African Education Society” by been an inseparable companion.” which was incorporated under the laws of Illi- which he would turn over to them Agrippa Hull returned with Kos- nois in 1972, strives to assist and cooperate with funds left by Kosciuszko if they ciuszko to Philadelphia in 1797 all individuals and organizations interested in would raise an equal amount. where they received a hero’s wel- Polish American life and history. Contributions in support of the work of the Association This never came about and liti- come. Hull then went to his native are tax-exempt. Regular one-year membership to the Association is $30.00. gation continued for many years. Stockbridge. Records show that in ___ I am interested in becoming a member of PAHA. Enclosed is a check or money Kosciuszko’s proposal to “purchase 1825 in Stockbridge, Agrippa Hull order for $30.00 made payable to the Polish American Historical Association. the Negroes and give them liberty in was included in the company invit- my name” was never carried out. ed to the great ball held on Wash- In connection with Kosciuszko, ington’s birthday. General Lafayette NAME there was an interesting story about also was a guest. his aide, a black man, named Agrip- v v v ADDRESS pa Hull, a soldier. Hull was a butler Ed Dybicz is a member of the to the distinguished Sedgwick Fam- Historical Society of Montgomery CITY, STATE, ZIP ily of Stockbridge, Mass. County and the Valley Forge His- MAIL TO: PAHA, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050 Born a freeman in 1759, Hull torical Society. POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2008 www.polamjournal.com 11

POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL Ethnic Jazz Has POLKA PATTER “A Bright Idea” Prepared and Distributed by the CLEVELAND—Jimmy K & Polonia Media Network Ethnic Jazz announce the release of their latest recording, which is now • The “Polka Party Express” with available on CD. Wackie Jackie Z and the Polka “A Bright Idea” features four- Crew on WMNF (88.5 FM) in teen songs, including thirteen vo- Florida paid tribute to Frankie cals, with original songs sprinkled Yankovic on July 13, 2008. Ida DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION AND CONTINUANCE OF POLISH AMERICAN MUSIC throughout the project. Yankovic joined the show to cele- Led by veteran Jimmy “K” Krz- brate and honor her late husband’s eszewski (accordion & vocals), the music. Rounder Records Thomas Miniszewski Passes recording features plenty of vet- • A judge on “America’s Got Tal- Releases Sturr’s eran talents, including Jason Uzl ent,” the TV show with no-talent Member of Several Popular Buffalo-area Bands (trumpet and vocals), Joe Rosinski judges, asked on the show’s July “Let the Whole BUFFALO, N.Y.—Musician (drums), Verne Maddie (concertina 15, 2008, edition “what is worse Thomas J. Miniszewski died Mon., and bass), Rich Benkowski (concer- than an accordion is two accor- World Sing” Aug. 11, 2008 at a hospice facility tina), and some great guest work by dions?” A week earlier a polka BURLINGTON, Mass—Seven- in Cheektowaga, N.Y. Dave Pietrzak (sax and clarinet). dance couple, who had received teen-time Grammy award winner, A long-time Buffalo-based clari- The CD offers a mix of Polish numerous awards for prior perfor- polka bandleader and entertainer net and saxophone player—known & English vocals—even a song mances, received the same treat- Jimmy Sturr & his Orchestra return to his friends as “Peanut”—Minisze- in Finnish. From the first song, an ment. with a new album on Rounder en- wski was the member of many bands original titled “Not So Much,” each • It was “Christmas in July.” Keith titled “Let the Whole World Sing!” in his career that spanned over four track adds its own distinct personal- Stras invited listeners of his show It was released on August 5, 2008. decades. Among them were Richie ity to the recording. on the Polka Jammer Network to “Let the Whole World Sing!” Kurdziel’s Hi-Notes, Happy Rich- This CD will be available at sit back, relax on the patio and is a varied collection that features ie’s Polka Band, Jerry Darlak & the all Ethnic Jazz performances, and grab a nice ice cold bottle of piwo Sturr’s orchestra both on its own Touch, and Nickle City Notes. through Jimmy K Polkas. (www. and enjoy four hours of holiday and in support of such special He was a member of Happy jimmykpolkas.com) polkas. The program featured guests as Ray Price, Raul Malo, Richie’s band for almost 20 years. DJs and IJs can contact Ethnic Charm City Sound, Polka Family, and Charlie Prose. Showcasing the Miniszewski recorded on over a Jazz for a promotional copy at: Versatones, The Touch, Maestro’s full range of Sturr’s musical inter- dozen singles and albums. These in- Jimmy K Polkas, P.O. Box 360855, Men and others for a Christmas ests are songs such as the traditional clude the popular “Strike it Happy, recorded with the Hi-Notes, defined Strongsville, OH 44136, call toll Music Extravaganza on July 17. polka song, “Wojenko,” sung by Strike it Rich,” with Happy Richie’s his straight-forward style. free (866) 454-6695 to order by • Longtime polka musician, pro- Sturr band member Johnny Karas; Polka Band, and “For Our Friends,” He is survived by two sons, and phone, or e-mail at info@ethnicjaz- moter and DJ Ed Potoniec of two polka-tempo covers of classic with the Touch. was laid to rest from Our Lady of zohio.com. Cleveland, Ohio, passed away in country songs “Heartaches by the His clarinet work on Li’l Wally’s Perpetual Help Church in Lake- Ethnic Jazz’s web site is www. late July. Number,” featuring a rousing vocal “Drunk in the Garden” oberek, re- view. ethnicjazzohio.com. • The Patrick Henry Show disap- from progressive country star Raul peared from the airwaves, but is Malo, and “I Love You Because,” now heard on the Polka Jammer offering a tender vocal performance Celebrating Seven Years of “All Things Polish” Network live every Tuesday from by country music legend Ray Price. 9:00-10:00 p.m. (CT). All the cur- There are also more recent songs ALBANY, N.Y.—The Albany instrument as well. After his dis- food favorites: kielbasa, golabki, rent shows are archived and you deserving wider exposure, such as area’s premier celebration of Polish/ charge from the military, he studied pierogi, international desserts, and can listen anytime you want. Go “The Wedding Song,” written by American culture, PolishFest ’ 08, and taught at the Troy (NY) Conser- Polish beer to name a few. to and Australian songwriter Ian Better- steps off on Friday, Sept. 19 through vatory of Music during the ’50s. Saturday’s music starts at noon. just click on the link. idge. Sunday, Sept. 21. This year’s hon- Brother Al, fifteen years younger DJ Mark Ives, Maestro’s Men, the • The Boys From Baltimore were Two versions of instrumental orees, The Rymanowski Brothers than John, was interested in becom- Mass Brass Polka Band, and the together for a short eight years. standards on this album are char- Polka Band, start up the music on ing a clarinet player. While at Os- Matt & Elaine Dance Duo grace the acterized by imaginative arrange- Friday at 5:00 p.m. wego, John won a clarinet in a dice stage under the big tent. A pierogi Many recall their albums entitled ments: a stunning rendition of the The festival, in its 7th year, game, and sent it home to his little eating contest will hopefully stimu- “Boys are Back” (1980), “Polka big band composition “Manhattan features free polka lessons, craft brother, Al. In addition to taking late your appetite; there’s plenty of Menagerie” (1982), “The Boys Spiritual” and a charming version of vendors, cooking demonstrations, lessons locally, Al received money treats to eat all day. Just Want To Have Fun” (1984) Floyd Cramer’s popular instrumen- a number of contests and competi- from John, enabling him to travel Sunday begins with a Polka Mass and “The Boys Nite Out” (1988). tal hit, “Last Date.” tions, a wooden dance floor, and of weekly to New York for private in- in Blessed Virgin Mary of Czesto- They returned for appearances on course, plenty of good food. struction. John returned home, Al chowa Polish National Catholic August 30 in Williamsville, N.Y. The Rymanowski Brothers are was ready and waiting, and the Ry- Church at 10:00 a.m. with the Eddie and then on August 31 in Ludlow, It’s Polka Time! well known in music circles in manowski Brothers took the stage. Forman Orchestra; They will also Mass., with six of the bands origi- the Capital District. The band was Today, the band continues, with nal members. Expands to close out the day’s music at 6:00 formed in 1947 by Al and John Ry- John’s sons Dennis and Gerry at the • “It’s Polka Time!” with Craig p.m. North Dakota! manowski of Cohoes N.Y., first as a helm. The band is probably play- Ebel made its debut in North Winners of the annual Chopin It’s Polka Time! with Craig Ebel trio, then gradually growing to nine ing at golden anniversary parties Dakota July 27, 2008. The show competition will present a piano re- makes its debut in North Dakota men. The original band played polka for couples who danced to John and will be heard there every Sunday cital in the church. The grand prize on July 27, 2008. The show will be dances and hundreds of weddings Al’s music at their weddings. from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. CST heard every Sunday from 10:00 a.m. throughout the 1950s and ’60s, In addition, the Brothers host of $5000 will be drawn for the Cash over KHND (1470 AM) in Har- to noon. CST over AM 1470 KHND and went on to record songs for the their weekly “Polka Spotlight” ra- Bonanza raffle. Children’s activities, vey. KHND is a 1,000-watt full in Harvey, North Dakota. KHND is Lamb, Decca, and Stella labels. dio show (Sundays 9 AM till noon; genealogy lectures, cooking demos, service radio station that covers a 1,000-watt full service radio sta- John started private accordion WVCR, 88.3 FM). Their efforts to an auction, a polka contest, crafts, a large area of Central North Da- tion that covers a large area of Cen- lessons at age 21, playing with some preserve polka music and Polish and vendors will fill the day for Fest kota. Known as “The Mix”, the tral North Dakota. Known as “The local trios. He was drafted into the heritage are being duly recognized attendees throughout the weekend. station’s signal reaches the people Mix,” KHND’s signal reaches the Army during World War II, playing at this year’s Polish Fest. Visit PolishFest ’08 at 250 Max- of Wells, Sheridan, McLean, Ben- people of Wells, Sheridan, McLean, accordion in the Army Band at Ft. Friday’s activities also include well Rd., Latham N.Y. For more son, McHenry, Kidder, Pierce, Benson, McHenry, Kidder, Pierce, Oswego. He filled in as the company free polka lessons, vendors, ethnic info call (518) 453-2258, or check Foster and Eddy Counties. Foster and Eddy Counties. bugler and eventually mastered that crafts, and Polish and American out www.polishfest-ny.org. • Polka Family’s brand new CD, “Hungry For More” was avail- Polka Jukebox / by Steve Litwin able in only a limited edition ver- sion of 200 at Pulaski Polka Days. General release copies will be available at the bandstand in the Twin Cities Soundz Does it Brassy following weeks. Sample tracks Twin Cities Soundz does it ka music. Covering everyone from saxophones. polka. can be heard at . “Time To Change” with the title tune to Zosia, Kristine, Andrea and Erika Mrozinski, Time to Change on the net, sax and trumpet), Dennis Paner • You don’t expect polka music and some dynamic arrangements Piotrowski to the Langners to Bar- Aleatoric label was recorded by in Colorado? Well, think again. of a few Randy Koslosky penned bara Zielinski to Dee Dee Ogrodny Hank Guzevich of Wizzears Stu- (trumpet), Larry Chadwick (bass), Claude Wiatrowski’s Planet Pol- songs. The band easily shifts to Pol- and many more, this extensive mu- dios and mixed by Gary Rhamy of Mike Kurdziel (drums), Casey ka, the only horn-based Chicago- ish vocals on “I Love You Not” and sical anthology will fill your heart Peppermint Studios. Contact: Peter Klizak (concertina) and Mike style polka band in the Colorado a nice version of “Bandit” polka. and mind with grand memories and Mrozinski, 17325 Henna Ave. N., Nowakowski (piano/keyboard). Springs area, performed at the With a great blend of drive tunes, appreciation for the contributions of Hugo, MN 55038. All of these Nickel City Boys are International Dance Club on July honky, and excellent vocals, this these polka stars. Robyn’s vocals on 26 and in concert at Soda Springs all of the age to remember the Buf- Minnesota based group presents a this medley and throughout the re- SPARE CHANGE. If you have Park on July 31. well-produced musical package on cording easily demonstrate the need some spare change you should con- falo Nickel (see the CD label) and • Steve Ostash passed away July this 11 track recording. for more recognition of her talent in sider spending it on “Spare Change” also remember when polka music in 10, 2008, at age 86. He was an Now before you wonder why our industry. by the Nickel City Boys of Buffalo, Buffalo could be heard seven days inductee of the Michigan State only 11 tracks, it should be men- Behind the drums is Peter Mroz- NY. This group of veteran Nickel a week. “Spare Change” is a throw- Polka Music Hall of Fame and a tioned that the first 10 tracks give inski while Robyn plays bass, violin City musicians provide the listener back to that time. founding member of the Michi- the listener 31 minutes of music. The and piano. The dynamic Craig Mar- with 14 tracks of backroom style gan Polka Association. The Bay last track, “Women of Polka Music solek is “Mr Concertina.” Dick Pow- polka music with everything from This one is on the Sunshine la- City Times published an excel- Docu-Medley,” is a true gem high- ell and Bernie Koslosy are amazing “Jedzie Boat” to Tu Lu Lu” oberek bel. P.O. Box 652, West Seneca, NY lent obituary to commemorate his lighting 32 different women of pol- on trumpets as well as clarinets and to “Wanda’s” to “Congratulations” 14221. life. 12 www.polamjournal.com POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2008

NOTES / Barb Pinkowski Sturr and Maestro’s Men Provide Great Entertainment

John Karas of the Jimmy Sturr Orchestra and Dennis Po- Two former G-Notes, Jerry Miesowicz and John Karas. Members of the Sturr band jammed on stage with mem- lisky of The Maestro’s Men. bers of The Maestro’s Men. BUFFALO, N.Y.—Hi everyone! Al Bakowski is doing Summer is flying by and there just much better. He still has isn’t enough time to do everything some medical problems and go every place you wish you but has really improved could. Hope you’re enjoying every which is such a relief to minute of my favorite season! his family and friends On July 12, the Misty Blues … Get well wishes also Show Band did a great job at Potts go out to John (Sonny) Hall. It was something just a little Zwawa. Also to Richie bit different. Many people told me Szpara, who for many how much they enjoyed their vari- years ran bus trips to ety of music, singalongs, etc., and polka events from St. their showmanship. Barbara’s in Lackawan- na. Please remember all PLAY BALL! On Aug. 5, it was Pol- of our sick polka friends ish Festival Night at the ballpark. in your prayers. The Knewz did a great job playing in the tent pre-game party. The Kra- HAPPY ANNIVERSA- John (Sonny) and Barb Zwawa lent a helping hand at the Joyce McIntyre, Rich and Jenn Kurdziel, and Carol Ma- kowiacy Dancers from Eugenia’s RY. I would like to wish Boosters’ Picnic. chelski at the Buffalo Polka Boosters’ Picnic, Dance Studio featured children from Wanda and Frank Zi- Touch. There was a gigantic Chi- UPCOMING EVENTS Call Chris at 892-7977. olkowski a Happy 50th Anniversary 2 to 22 dancing some traditional folk nese auction, which was very well Sept. 3. Polka Variety Club Meet- Sept. 20. New Phaze Polka Band which they celebrated recently with dances in their beautiful and colorful supported. Barb Zwawa did a fan- ing at the Lily of the Valley Hall, (with Tony Blazonzyk, Jan Cyman, family and friends. costumes. You’ve got to give both tastic job getting prizes and dona- 2379 Union Rd., Cheektowaga, NY Timmy Okrzesik, Tim Jagodzin- the children and the teachers credit tions. Chris Tanski, President, and Doors open at 7:00 p.m., music at ski, Al Jelinek, and George Borsuk) HERITAGE FESTIVAL. The Polish for keeping up the Polish heritage. the entire committee worked hard to 8:00 p.m. and meeting at 9:00 p.m. Harvey Moran Post, 965 Center Rd., Fest at the Cheektowaga Town Park Polka promoter and writer Jackie put together an enjoyable day! Tailgate Party with Quality Sound. West Seneca, N.Y. 8:00 p.m. to mid- in mid-July featured some awesome Schmid was presented an award Len (716) 896-1476 night. Call Dan at 826-6575 Eastern Style polka music with for her years of service to the Polish AROUND THE TOWN. The Knewz Sept. 13. Cityside presents Stas Sept. 20-21. 4th Annual Dozynki some outstanding musicians: Walt community. She is well-deserving did a fabulous job playing at the and Stella’s Mostly Traditional Pol- Fest at the Holy Mother of the Ro- Wagner & the Polka Serenaders, of that acknowledgment as she has Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament ish Wedding at the Knights of Co- sary Cathedral, 5776 Broadway in Jimmy Sturr, Maestro’s Men, and been active promoting polka dances Lawn Fete at the end of July, and lumbus Hall on Broadway in Lan- Lancaster, N.Y. 685-5766. Various Bud Hundenski & the Corsairs and other events and has served on the Resurrection Lawn Fete the first caster. Call Chuck at 675-6588 entertainment, foods, crafts, chil- performed. Our local bands, Jerry many committees. weekend in August … Phocus did Sept. 18. Polka Boosters Club dren’s activities etc. There is free Darlak & the Touch and Cityside Mary Beth Wrobel (the weather an excellent job providing the music meeting at the Polish Falcons Hall, admission this year! Hit and Run is also were great. gal WIBV-TV) did a wonderful job for the Potts Miss Buffalo Cruise on 445 Columbia Ave., Depew, N.Y. on stage on Sat. Sept. 20 from 7:00 singing the National Anthem. Unfor- July 29th. An extra special treat was Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Music and p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Phocus will play NA PIKNIKU. The Polka Boosters tunately, after one inning, the rains the appearance of Scrubby singing refreshments. Everyone welcome! on Sun., from 3:00-7:00 p.m. came and the game was delayed for Picnic at the Lamm Grove on July his hits with the band—“Zosia,” over two hours. Most of us had to 26 was a great time with super en- “Dorotka,” and “Town to Town” leave and did not see the Bisons lose tertainment by Jerry Darlak & the POLKA MUSIC to Indianapolis. Listen to the ROCKIN’ROCKIN’ UNLIMITED HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO … Bob Polka Stony and Krawczyk. 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We urge you to verify events before der 16 free. For details visit . • Pennsylvania. Jolly Joe (Alex Trusz- St. Thomas Aquinas Parish Festival, p.m. funds. kowski) & the Bavarians at the Wa- Detroit, Mich., 3:00-7:00 p.m. • Massachusetts. Eddie Forman Or- Thursday, September 11 terfront, Lake Wallenpaupack, Pa., • Michigan. Natural Tones at the Silver chestra at the Puerto Rican/Latin Friday-Sunday, September 5-7 • Pennsylvania. Jolly Joe (Alex Trusz- 12:00-3:00 p.m. Derby Lounge, 506 Garfield Rd., Lin- American Cultural Center, Danvers, • Michigan. Posen Potato Festival. kowski) & the Bavarians at the Wa- • Pennsylvania. Jimmy Sturr & his Or- wood, Mich., 4:00-8:00 p.m. Mass., 6:00-10:00 p.m. Bands include John Stevens & terfront, Lake Wallenpaupack, Pa., chestra at the Gratz Fair, Gratz, Pa., • New Jersey. Jimmy Sturr & his Or- • New York. Mon Valley Push at the Doubleshot, Pan Franek and Zosia, 12:00-3:00 p.m. from 7:30 p.m. chestra at Oktoberfest, The Spa, Ver- Fulton Polish Home, Fulton, N.Y., Touch of Brass and Kielbasa Kings. non, N.J., from 1:00 p.m. 4:00-8:00 p.m. Polka Pavilion, Festival Grounds, Po- Friday, September 12 Fri.-Sun., September 19-21 • New York. Polka Family at Rose sen, Mich. Polka music Fri. 7:00 p.m.- • Michigan. Duane Malinowski at the • New York. Polish Fest ’08. Bands Lawn, New York Mills, N.Y., 3:00-7:00 • New York. Jimmy Sturr & his Orches- 1:00 a.m.; Sat. 12:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.: St. Anne Parish Festival, 3200 Mound include the Rymanowski Brothers, p.m. tra at SS. Joachim-John Church, Bea- Sun. 12:00-9:00 p.m. Rd., warren, Mich., 6:00-11:00 p.m. Dennis Polisky & the Maestro’s Men, • New York. Dennis Polisky & the con, N.Y., from 7:00 p.m. • Wisconsin. Polish Fest. Bands in- • Michigan. Natural Tones at Biff’s Mass Brass Polka Band, and the Ed- Maestro’s Men at the PACA Starlight • Pennsylvania. Jolly Joe (Alex Trusz- clude The Knewz, Polka Country Bar and Lounge, 4680 N. Van Dyke, die Forman Orchestra. Blessed Vir- Ballroom, Port Washington, N.Y., kowski) & the Bavarians at the Musicians, Polka Family, DynaBrass, Kinde, Mich., 7:30-11:30 p.m. gin Mary of Czestochowa Polish Na- 3:00-7:00 p.m. Renaissance Fair, Landsford, Pa., Doctor Kielbasa, Family Tradition, • Pennsylvania. Jolly Joe (Alex Trusz- tional Catholic Church, 250 Maxwell • Ohio. Ethnic Jazz at the St. Hyacinth 12:003:00 p.m. Stas Bulanda & the Old School Re- kowski) & the Bavarians at O’Reilly’s Rd., Latham, N.Y. Fri. 5:00-9:00 p.m.; Parish Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. view and Chad Przybylski. Mt. Olym- Pub, Harrisburg, Pa., 8:00-11:00 p.m. Sat. 12:00-9:00 p.m.; Sun. 12:00-6:00 Check locally for details. Sunday, September 28 pus, 1881 Wisconsin Dells Pkwy., p.m. Tickets Fri. $2; Sat.-Sun. $4; • Pennsylvania. Lenny Gomulka & Chi- • Connecticut. Eddie Forman Orches- Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Fri. 6:00-11:00 Sat.-Sun., September 13-14 under 16 free. For details call (518) cago Push and Eddie Blazonczyk’s tra at the Polish Home, Bristol, Conn., p.m.; Sat. 10:30 a.m.-11:00 p.m.; Sun. • Michigan. Kinde Polka Fest. Bands 453-2258 or visit . Polish Day, New Castle, Pa., 12:00- • Florida. Northern Sounds at the ly; $35 3-day pass. For details call 1- 13), Eddie Blazonczyk’s Versatones 9:00 p.m. Polish American Society of St. Pe- 800-659-6811 or visit . 13) and Polka Music Sound (-13), • Maryland. Charm City Sound at a sels at St. Ambrose Church, Avon- Petersburg, Fla., dinner 2:30-4:00 Stephanie & her Honky Band (9-14) Dinner-Dance honoring Mike Ma- more, Pa. Check locally for details. Friday, September 5 and Old School 9-14). Fest Grounds, tousek, Glen Burnie Moose Lodge, • Wisconsin. Duane Burclaw & the p.m., $7.50; music 4:00-7:00 p.m., $5 • Michigan. Big Daddy Lackowski 10 Miles north of Bad Axe, Mich. Sat. 1911 Crain Hwy S., Glen Burnie, Md., Golden Aces at Zondlo’s Ballroom, members, $7 non-members. at the St. Lawrence Festival, Utica, 12:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.; Sun. 12:00- dinner 7:00 p.m., music 8:00 p.m.- Rib Lake, Wis., 1:00-5:00 p.m. • Massachusetts. Dennis Polisky & the Mich., 5:00-9:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 12:00 a.m. For details call (410) 694- Maestro’s Men at the Polish Ameri- • Michigan. Sausage Fest of St. Anne 0201. Monday, September 22 can Citizens Club, 171 Kendall Pond Sat.-Sun., September 6-7 Parish. Bands include Duane Ma- • Ontario. John Gora & Gorale and • Pennsylvania. Jolly Joe (Alex Trusz- Rd. West Gardner, Mass., 5:00-9:00 • Pennsylvania. Polish Festival. Bands linowski (9-13), Touch of Brass (9- Lenny Gomulka & Chicago Push at kowski) & the Bavarians at the p.m. include Dennis Polisky & the Mae- 13), Touch of Brass (9-14) and Big the Polish Hall, 2316 Fairview St., Bloomsburg Fair, Bloomsburg, Pa., • Michigan. Ray Jay & the Carousels at stro’s Men (9-6) and Stas Golonka Daddy Lackowski (9-14). St. Anne Burlington, Ont., Canada, 8:00 p.m.- 2:00-6:00 p.m. a Warren Polka Boosters dance, K of & the Chicago Masters (9-7). Eth- Church Grounds, 32000 Mound Rd., 2:00 a.m. C Hall, 44425 Utica Rd., Utica, Mich., nic entertainment, stage shows Warren, Mich., 1:00-11:00 p.m. Friday, September 26 2:00-6:00 p.m. and special events. Shrine of Our • Ontario. Polka Family, Freeze Dried, Sat.-Sun., September 20-21 • Pennsylvania. Jolly Joe (Alex Trusz- • Michigan. Duane Malinowski at the Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown, John Gora & Gorale and other bands • New York. Dozynki [Polish Harvest kowski) & the Bavarians at the Ap- LFA Hall, 2323 Amelith Rd., Bay City, Pa. 12:00-8:00 p.m. Tickets $9. For at the Roncesvalles Polish Festival, Festival]. Bands include Hit and Run palachian Brewery, Harrisburg, Pa., Mich., 4:00-8:00 p.m. details visit . ca/index.php?l=polish>. 6298 Broadway, Lancaster, N.Y. From • Connecticut. Marty Swiatek & RBO 12:00 p.m. For details call (716) 685- at the Apple Harvest Festival, Route Alexis, Toledo, Ohio, 2:00-7:00 p.m. Saturday, September 6 Saturday, September 13 5766. 10, Apple Valley, Southington, • Pennsylvania. Jolly Joe (Alex Trusz- • Connecticut. Eddie Forman Orches- • Michigan. Natural Tones at Maple Conn., 4:00-6:00 p.m. For details visit kowski) & the Bavarians at the tra and another band at the Felician Valley School, 138 Maple Valley Rd., Saturday, September 20 . 12:003:00 p.m. p.m. • New York. Tony’s Polka Band at the tra at the St. Joseph Polish Club, Col- • Connecticut. Dennis Polisky & the • Wisconsin. Duane Burclaw & the • Michigan. Tri City Plus at the St. Stratford Community Center, Strat- chester, Conn., 7:00-11:00 p.m. Maestro’s Men at a Dinner-Dance, Golden Aces at Equity Hall, Pound, Athanasius Parish Festival, 18720 13 ford, N.Y., 4:30-5:30 p.m. • Michigan. Ethnic Jazz at an Indian Polish Home, Windsor Locks, Conn., Wis., 1:30-5:30 p.m. Mile Rd., Roseville, Mich., 3:00-7:00 • Wisconsin. Polish Connection and Summer Dance, Mount Carmel Par- p.m. other bands at the Bowler Casino ish Gymnasium, 976 Pope John Paul • Michigan. Big Daddy Lackowski at Polka Fest, Bowler, Wis. Check locally Ave., Wyandotte, Mich., 8:00 p.m.- the St. Louis Church Festival, 2500 for details. 12:00 a.m. 12 Mile Rd., Sterling Heights, Mich., • Minnesota. Jersey Polka Richie at 6:00-11:00 p.m. Sunday, September 14 Fall Fest, Coon Rapids Legion Post, • New York. Tony’s Polka Band at the • Arizona. Varitones at Palm Ridge Crooked Lake Blvd., Coon Rapids, Polish National Catholic Church Fes- Recreation Center, 13800 W. Deer Minn., 7:00-11:00 p.m. tival, East Herkimer, N.Y., 2:00-6:00 Valley Dr., Sun City west, Ariz., 1:00- • New York. Jimmy Sturr & his Orches- p.m. 5:00 p.m. tra at the Town Park, Newburgh, N.Y. • Pennsylvania. Jolly Joe (Alex Trusz- • Florida. Sounds of the South at Check locally for details. kowski) & the Bavarians at the VFW the Polish American Society of St. • Wisconsin. Prime Time, Paper City Post, Selinsgrove, Pa., 8:00-11:00 Petersburg, 1343 Beach Dr. SE, St. Sounds and other bands at a ben- p.m. Petersburg, Fla., dinner 2:30-4:00 efit dance, Pavilion, Rothschild, Wis., p.m., $7.50; music 4:00-7:00 p.m., $5 from 12:00 p.m. Check locally for Sunday, September 7 members, $7 non-members. details. • Massachusetts. Eddie Forman Or- • Illinois. Music Company, New Phaze • Wisconsin. LiveWire at Oktoberfest, chestra at the Shady Pines Camp- and Jake Mikrut & the All Stars at an Chippewa Falls, Wis., 3:00-6:00 p.m. ground, Savoy, Mass., 1:00-5:00 p.m. End of Summer Polka Party, Heri- • Massachusetts. Dennis Polisky & the tage Manor, 5540 S. Narragansett, Sunday, September 21 Maestro’s Men at Pulaski Park, Three Chicago, Ill., gates open 1:00 p.m., • Florida. B Sharps at the Polish Amer- Rivers, Mass., 2:30-6:30 p.m. music 2:00-6:00 p.m., $10, children ican Society of St. Petersburg, 1343 • Massachusetts. Ray Jay & the Car- under 18 free. Beach Dr. SE, St. Petersburg, Fla., ousels at St. Louis Church, Luzerne, • Connecticut. Marty Swiatek & RBO dinner 2:30-4:00 p.m., $7.50; music Mass. Check locally for details. at the St. Michael Parish Four Sea- 4:00-7:00 p.m., $5 members, $7 non- • Michigan. Duane Malinowski at the sons Country Fair, 25 Maple St., Bea- members. St. Joseph Parish Festival, Maybe, con Falls, Conn., 1:00-3:00 p.m. • Michigan. Lake Towne Sound at the Mich., 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. • Massachusetts. Polka Family at Pu- Playhouse, 1701 W. Houghton Lake • Michigan. Varitones at the St. Syl- laski Park, Three Rivers, Mass., 2:30- Rd., Houghton Lake, Mich., 3:00-7:00 vester Parish Festival, 11200 E. 12 6:30 p.m. p.m. Mile Rd., Warren, Mich., 12:30 a.m.- • Michigan. Polkalodians at the Silver 6:30 p.m. Derby Lounge, 508 N. Garfield Rd., • Michigan. Polkalodians at the SS. Linwood, Mich., 4:00-8:00 p.m. Charles and Helena Festival, Cilo, • Michigan. Pan Franek and Zosia at NEW RELEASE Mich., 1:00-5:00 p.m. the St. Raphael Parish Festival, Gar- • Pennsylvania. Jolly Joe (Alex Trusz- den City, Mich. Check locally for de- SPARE CHANGE kowski) & the Bavarians at Fun Fest, tails. Nickel City Notes Hazelton, Pa., 3:00-5:00 p.m. • Ohio. Andy Fenus & the Trel Tones at • Pennsylvania. Eastern Sound Polka a Toledo Area Polka Society dance, Band at Lakeside Ballroom, Barnes- Conn-Weissenberger Legion Hall, SEND FOR A FREE CATALOG ville, Pa., 3:00-7:00 p.m. 2020 Alexis, Toledo, Ohio, 2:00-7:00 SUNSHINE • Wisconsin. Duane Burclaw & the p.m. PO BOX 652 Golden Aces at Monster Hall, Unity, • Ohio. Ethnic Jazz at the American W. SENECA, NY 14224 Wis., 1:00-5:00 p.m. Czechoslovakian Club, 922 Valley St., CASSETTES $8 ea. • CDs $12 ea. • Wisconsin. Norm Dombrowski & the Dayton, Ohio, 3:00-7:00 p.m., $13. $2.00 SHIPPING & HANDLING Happy Notes and Paper City Sounds • Pennsylvania. Tony’s Polka Band at at Panacea High School Picnic, Ste- the WVIA Polka Festival, Scranton, vens Point, Wis., 1:30-5:30 p.m. Pa. from 2:00 p.m. • Pennsylvania. John Stevens & Dou- Free Catalog Thurs.-Sun., September 11-14 bleshot at the VFW Post, Dupont, Polkas! • Delaware. Polkamotion by the Pa., 2:00-6:00 p.m. Ocean. Bands include Polka Family, • Wisconsin. 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Serve straight from with salt, pepper, marjoram and 1-2 can affect a wide array of issues and cored cooking apples, coarsely the oven, plain, drenched with sour buds crushed garlic, place in roaster, from space travel to global warm- grated or thinly sliced. (Optional: cream fork-blended with powdered smother meat with 2 sliced onions, ing. Polish scientists have been in 1/2 t grated lemon zest nay be added sugar (as above) or with fruit syrup cover and let stand at room temp 1 the forefront of these developments to batter.) Heat 4 T butter, lard or of choice. hr. Remove loin, pat dry, sprinkle in the spirit of their great predeces- oil in skillet, spoon in batter and fry with flour and brown on all sides sor, Mikołaj Kopernik, better known pancakes to a nice golden-brown on BEANS & PRUNES (fasola ze in hot oil or lard to seal in juices. in English as Copernicus. both sides. Add more fat as needed śliwkami): Dice 8 - 10 pitted prunes, Return to roaster. Brown onions The Optical Gravitational Lens- Drain on absorbent paper and serve place in bowl, cover with warm wa- in the pan drippings and return to ing Experiment (OGLE) being con- at once. Dust with confectioner’s ter and let stand 1 hr. Dice 3 slices roaster. Add 1 c water and bake in ducted at Warsaw University’s As- sugar or serve with jam or fruit syr- thick-sliced bacon and fry up with 375° oven 1 hr. Meanwhile, soak 2 c tronomical Obsevatory has made a Andrzej Udalski up of choice. 1 chopped onion until tender and unpitted prunes in water to cover 20 significant contribution to the recent of the most remote worlds ever dis- nicely browned. Cook prunes in the min and add to roaster. Bake another discovery of a new solar system and covered. Dr Maciej Konacki of the POLISH PRUNE PANCAKES water they were soaked in until they 90 min or until tender but not over- a planet only three times larger than Copernicus Astronomical Center (placuszki z suzsonymi śliwkami): fully disintegrate. Add the bacon and cooked. Cut the loin in 2 to see if it our earth. “The star around which was the discoverer of the first planet Soak 6 oz pitted prunes in 2 c warm onion plus their drippings, 1 T vine- is no longer pink inside. Serve with it revolves is of record small size functioning within a three-star ar- water 1 hr. Drain well, pat dry and gar or more to taste and season with rice (for an Old Polish touch—make and forms part of the Sagittarius rangement. That overturned the the- dice. Add to batter prepared as in salt, pepper and marjoram. Heat 5-6 it saffron rice!) and a green salad or constellation which is about 3,000 ory that planets orbit around a single preceding recipe (apple pancakes) c canned navy beans, drain, transfer (during autumn and winter) a grated light years away,” explained Profes- star. Working together, Konacki and and proceed as above. to serving dish and drench with hot carrot, apple, horseradish salad. sor Andrzej Wolszczan stewed-prune mixture. Udalski who m a n a g e d PLUM-FILLED POTATO DUMP- ROAST PORK WITH PRUNES heads the to discover LINGS (knedle ze śliwkami): Peel ROAST DUCK WITH APPLES (pieczeñ wieprzowa ze śliwkami): OGLE team. yet a fourth and cook 1-1/2 lbs potatoes until (kaczka pieczona z jabłkami): This is a more economical version, “It takes planet re- tender, drain well and run through Wash a 4-5 lb duck and pat dry. Rub since pork shoulder costs less than the newly v o l v i n g ricer or mash very thoroughly until inside and out with salt, pepper, mar- pork loin. Rub a 4-5 lb tied, rolled, discovered around the lump-free. Add 1-1/2 c flour, sifted, joram and (optional) 1 bud crushed boneless pork shoulder roast all over planet three pulsar men- 1 egg and 1/2 t salt and work into a garlic. Let stand in covered roasting with salt, pepper, marjoram and 1-2 years to make tioned ear- uniform dough. Divide into 3 parts. pan at room temp 2 hrs. Stuff tightly buds crushed garlic. Place on rack in a complete lier. On floured board form each part into with unpeeled, cored quarters of tart roasting pan and roast in 325° oven orbit around And ear- a 1-1/2” roll, flattening top with flat cooking apples. Cut off protruding about 25 min per pound, basting oc- its star,” he lier this year, of knife blade. Cut roll into 1-1/2” fat at neck end and sew up neck and casionally. To drippings in pan add added. the OGLE pieces, flatten each piece in palm tail openings. Place duck on rack in 3 quartered onions and 1-2 c unpit- T h e Aleksander Wolszczan team found of hand into a small patty, place a roasting pan and roast in preheated ted prunes, and baste meat with 1/2 d i s c o v e r y a miniature whole pitted plum (ripe węgierki or 450°-500° oven 10-15 min, turning c dark beer. Bake until meat is fork- caused a sensation when it was version of our Solar System in the Italian plums are best!) thereon, fold over to sear on all sides. Reduce to tender. Serve with rice, mashed or presented at the convention of the Scorpio constellation some 5,000 dough over it and roll snowball- 350°-375°, sprinkle with 2 T water, boiled potatoes and a crispy green American Astronomical Society by light years away. At this point, it ap- fashion into a ball. Drop dumplings prick with fork to release fat and salad. Dave Bennett of Notre Dame Uni- pears all but certain that fresh dis- into boiling salted water, stir gen- roast 90-120 min or until fork tender. versity. It was also written up in The coveries will be forthcoming shortly. tly with wooden spoon and cover. Baste with pan drippings frequently. Say “Happy Birthday” Astrophysical Journal. Polish astronomers, astrophysicists When boiling resumes, uncover and To get a crisp skin, briefly turn heat in Polish! Gravitational micro-lensing was and collaborating scientists in many cook 2-3 min. Remove with slotted up to 450°-500° towards the end of the brain child of the late Polish different fields appear to be follow- spoon and serve at once. Toppings roasting. Since the apple stuffing astrophysicist, Professor Bohdan ing in Copernicus’ footsteps helping can include granulated sugar, sugar shrinks considerably, prepare addi- Wycinanki-Style Paczyński. It enables astronomers to unlock many mysteries of our and butter-browned bread crumbs or tional apples on the side. Place 2-3 to study distant celestial bodies by vast and still little-known universe. sour cream sweetened with granulat- additional, peeled apple quarters in Birthday Cards registering their changing bright- ness caused by other objects passing ed or confectioner’s sugar (1 c sour pan, drench with several T duck pan CARD 400 (“Sto lat”) in front of them. According to one of cream fork-blended with 1 heaping drippings, sprinkle with marjoram 4¼¨x5½¨ with envelope T or more sugar). Einstein’s theories, the gravitation and bake in same oven the last 45 Full color design with Polish min. Mix separately cooked apples of such an object bends a star’s light and English greeting inside NOODLES & APPLE CAS- with those with which the duck was like a lens and its changing bright- SEROLE (kluski zapiekane z stuffed and serve in serving dish. If Printed ness can be observed. This was the jabłkami): Combine 4-6 c cooked making up portions, dish out a heap- on 14th solar system discovered by his egg noodles (cooked and drained or ing spoonful of hot apple mixture on Glossy OGLE team which works closely with astronomy centers from New pre-cooked leftovers) with 4 peeled each dinner plate and place a por- Stock and cored, coarsely grated apples, tion of roast duck on top. Variation: Zealand to Chile and many points in 1/4 to 1/2 c sugar, and about % T Mix about 3/4 c whole-style canned between. The discovery of exotic planets has become a Polish speciality. In 1991, astronomer Aleksander Wol- szczan discovered first three planets Designed by outside our Solar System revolving Doris Sikorsky around a pulsar or spinning neutron star in the Virgo constellation. A de- cade later, Prof. Udalski built a mo- saic camera which has enabled him to discover three planetary systems located the farthest from our Sun. The method makes it possible to si- multaneously observe up to one mil- CARD 401 lion celestial objects. (“Candles”) In 2005, OGLE-linked scientists 5½¨x4¼¨ with envelope discovered in the Sagittarius con- Full color design with Polish stellation a rocky planet which most closely resembles the Earth—one and English greeting inside $2.50 each 10 or more cards: $2.00 each SHIPPING & HANDLING 1-5 cards: ...... $1.00 6-10 cards: ...... $2.00 11 or more cards:...... $4.00 WHOLESALE INQUIRIES WELCOME POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL P.O. BOX 328 AmEx, BOSTON, NY 14025 Discover, MC, 1 (716) 312-8088 Visa and PayPal 1 (800) 422-1275 ACCEPTED POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2008 www.polamjournal.com 15

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SPORTS / Tom Tarapacki Scott Kazmir Picks Up the Win at All-Star Game Scott Kazmir of the Tampa Bay the game for some time. However, After 3 bullpen sessions Borows- sinki), bronze as Rays was selected for the Baseball opposing players don’t like him ki commented: “I feel like I’m 23 a heavyweight All-Star Game, but wasn’t expect- because He’ll do anything to win. again.” I can see life and break on in 1960 (Rome) ed to play. That’s because he had When he’s behind the plate he talks the ball when it comes out of my and bronze as a thrown 104 pitches the day before contantly to disrupt a hitter’s rhythm hand,” said Borowski. “It’s the first heavyweight in the All-Star break. However, in what and focus. He may not have been an time I’ve seen it this year.” 1964 (Tokyo). He turned out to be the longest game in All Star this year, but there’s not de- did not compete All-Star history, Kazmir was called nying that he’s one of the best. MR. WEIGHTLIFTING. It was 60 in the 1956 games on to pitch. He not only pitched, but years ago that Norb Schemansky because of a back he picked up the win after throwing BOROWSKI ISN’T FINISHED. won his first Olympic medal, on his injury. a scoreless top of the 15th inning. Joe Borowski, the Cleveland re- way to becoming the first weight- Perhaps his Kaz missed the first month of the lief pitcher who led the American lifter ever to win four Olympic med- greatest achieve- Scott Kazmir of the Tampa Bay Rays was selected season with inflammation in his left League with 45 saves last year, was als. ment came at the for the Baseball All-Star Game, but wasn’t expect- elbow. He returned to the mound cut by the Indans after struggling Schemansky won silver as a Tokyo Olympics ed to play. on May 5, and did not pitch all this season. As the PAJ went to press heavyweight at the ’48 London in 1964. He came mother, Josephine (Idalski) Sche- that well. But since then, the 2007 he had talked with several teams but Games. However, the achievement back from crippling back injuries, mansky, died when he was a child. strikeout leader went 6-1 with 49 Ks had not yet signed a contract. didn’t change his life materially. He at the age of 40, to win bronze. As “Mr. Weightlifting Norbert Sche- in seven games started, making him Borowski said his trainers in Ari- returned his home in Detroit, where usual, Norb was one of the smallest mansky, History’s Greatest Olympic a shoo-in for the All-Star game. zona found some damage caused by his young family shared a house lifters, and lifted the most in relation & World Champion Heavyweight Not making it to the All Star game a triceps injury that put him on the with his sister, and his job at Briggs to his body weight. “I was the first Lifter,” written by Richard Bak and was A.J. Pierzynski. The White Sox disabled list in April.”They found Manufacturing heavyweight to lift double-body published by Immortal Investments catcher was hitting .291 and doing what they said felt like a big knot- Norb kept lifting and won at weight,” he pointed out. “When I Publishing, details his story. To or- an excellent job handling the Chi- ted rope under my right lat muscle,” the state, national and international won the Gold Medal I weighed 194, der a copy, go to www.immortalin- cago pitching staff. However, the said Borowski. level over his 27-year weight-lifting 195, and I did 399.” players voted in Boston’s Jason Va- “It was in my right armpit. After career, including three world cham- Schemansky was the third gen- vestments.com ritek, who was hitting .220. they massaged it and dug in there, pionships and nine national heavy- eration of Polish immigrants, the Look at A.J.’s offensive and de- they finally broke it up a little. It re- weight championships. original family name (Szyman- NEXT MONTH: Be sure to check fensive numbers, and you can see leased my arm. I felt like it wasn’t He also went on to win gold as ski) changed to phoenetical spelling out PAJ sports for a complete recap he’s been one of the top catchers in even attached to my body.” a middle heavyweight in 1952 (Hel- somewhere along the line. Norb’s of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. PRCUA Honors Rev. Iwuc of Rhode Island CHICAGO—On Sat., June 21, ership roles in Polonia. Certified by both in Orchard Lake, Mich. He is the Polish Roman Catholic Union of Wallace M. Ozog, FICF, National also president of the Rhode Island America (PRCUA) held its quarter- President, Polish Roman Catholic Division of the Polish American ly board meeting at its headquarters Union of America.” Congress. in Chicago. On behalf of the organi- Fr. Iwuc recently commemorated His activities within the Diocese zation, President Wallace Ozog pre- the 55th anniversary of his priest- include membership in the Dioc- sented a plaque to PRCUA National hood. He was ordained by the late esan Liturgical Commission, Com- Vice Chaplain Reverend Canon An- Bishop Russell J. McVinney in mission for Clergy Renewal, Dioc- thony D. Iwuc of Providence, R.I., Providence, on May 30, 1953. Fr. esan Marian Commission, Diocesan in honor of his 55 years in the priest- Iwuc was the principal celebrant of Council of Priests, the Diocesan hood and his long and dedicated ser- a concelebrated Mass of Thanksgiv- College, Continuing Education of vice to the PRCUA and Polonia. ing on Sunday, June 1, at St. Joseph the Clergy of the Diocese, Execu- The plaque reads: “In Grate- Church. A social hour and banquet tive Committee of the Clergy Ben- ful Appreciation, Presented to Rev. followed. efit Fund, Priests Personnel Board, Canon Anthony D. Iwuc, in rec- From 1953-72, Fr. Iwuc was a Dean of the Blackstone Valley ognition of his 55 years in humble curate, administrator pro-tem and Deanery #11, and Diocesan Direc- service to God, the Church and all pastor of Our. Lady of Czestochowa tor of the Holy Name Societies. God’s people through his priesthood Parish in Coventry. He then served Fr. Iwuc has also served as a which has uplifted and inspired as pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Cen- member of the Board of Directors of PRCUA President Wallace Ozog presents a plaque to Rev. Canon many souls; for his 58 years of loyal tral Falls, R.I., for 33 years—from the Polish Museum of America and Anthony D. Iwuc in honor of his 55 years in the priesthood and his membership in the Polish Roman 1972 to 2005 when he retired from vice-president of the Polish Ameri- long and dedicated service to the PRCUA and Polonia. Catholic Union of America; 12 years active ministry. Since his retirement can Priests Association. Loyalty Plaque, and Fidelitas Med- Lomza, Poland, the Cavalier Cross of dedicated duty as National Chap- he has resided in Providence, R.I. In recognition of his dedicated al, Polish National Alliance (PNA) Medal from the Republic of Poland, lain; 22 years of humble service as and assists at various local parishes. service, Fr. Iwuc was the recipient Legion of Honor Silver Cross, PNA and the Polish American Historical National Vice Chaplain; and for his Fr. Iwuc is a regent of the Or- the first Orchard Lake Schools Na- Certificate of Merit Award, Polish lifetime commitment to honoring chard Lakes Schools and a trustee tional Alumni Association’s “Man Apostolate Pride of Polonia Award, Association’s Certificate of Civic his Polish heritage through his lead- of Ss. Cyril & Methodius Seminary, of the Year Award,” The Schools Honorary Canon of the Diocese of Achievement.

CIEKAWOSTKI / Martin S. Nowak Joel Barlow: A Connecticut Yankee in Poland became an honorary French citizen. the French army in retreat from pur- the area. and it was reinstalled the following He consorted with anti-monarchists suing Russian forces, his invasion A funeral for Joel Barlow was May. A ceramic portrait of Barlow and liberals at the time of the French of that country an utter failure, Na- held on December 28 and he was was affixed to the wall above it. Revolution. He became friends with poleon bypassed Wilno to the south. buried in the churchyard. Adam Through the efforts of the Amer- Thomas Jefferson when the latter Barlow and his nephew also fled Piwowarski later paid for a marble ican Center for Polish Culture and was U.S. Minister to France, and south and west ahead of the Rus- tablet to be affixed to the wall inside the Diplomatic and Consular Offi- with Kościuszko, who lived in Paris sians. On December 18 they arrived the church entrance, commemorat- cers Retired, especially Richard B. for a few years. While in the French in Warsaw and rested for four days ing the man who had saved his life. Parker who launched the campaign, capital, the U.S. government hired before heading toward Kraków. A few years later Barlow’s widow a memorial stone was installed in Barlow as consul to Algiers, where Already from the start of the had a gravestone set over his burial the Żarnowiec churchyard. In June he secured the release of more than evacuation from Wilno, Ambassa- place at her expense. Decades later 1998 a dedication ceremony was 100 hostage American seamen in dor Barlow suffered from weakness it had weathered away without a held, which coincided with the It is strange to find a monument 1796. He and his wife returned to and fever. It was a rough coach ride trace. America in 1805, hoping to live out in extreme cold and on the road to In the 1920s Polish American 900th anniversary of the village. to an American poet in the church- Bands and a chorus performed and yard cemetery of a small village in their lives in their homeland. Kraków he developed pneumonia. historian Mieczysław Haiman re- speeches honoring Joel Barlow southern Poland. What is it doing In 1811 President James Madi- Still, he stopped along the way to searched the death and burial. It was there and who is this man being son appointed Barlow American take a freezing Polish soldier, Adam discovered that the graves in the were given by regional dignitaries, commemorated? Minister to France to negotiate a Piwowarski, into his carriage. Dur- Żarnowiec cemetery had been cov- the parish priest, Bishop of Kielce, His name is Joel Barlow, a commercial treaty with the Emperor ing a stop in Żarnowiec on Decem- ered over with new earth many years the mayor, the American Consul in Revolutionary War veteran born in Napoleon. With his wife and neph- ber 26, forty miles north of Kraków, earlier and new bodies interred over Kraków and Mr. Parker. Connecticut in 1754. His most well ew Thomas he returned to Paris. a doctor was summoned. Joel them. But with the help of older vil- The memorial is six feet tall of known poem is The Hasty Pudding But Napoleon was far away, pursu- Barlow was taken to the home of lagers, researchers determined the pink rough-hewn limestone. Two (1793), a light-hearted ode to the ing his military conquest of Europe. Mayor Jan Blaski, where he died in approximate location of Barlow’s biographical bronze tablets are at- New England dish. In addition to be- Finally, in late 1812, Barlow was the presence of his nephew, and the remains. There was some talk about tached to it, one in Polish and one in ing a poet, he was at various times a summoned to meet the Emperor in French Minister of International Af- exhuming the Ambassador’s body Wilno, Poland, recently “liberated” fairs Petry, who had also fled Wilno. and repatriating it to Connecticut, English. It is located in a nook along teacher, publisher, editor, diplomat, the cemetery wall. Two centuries lawyer and realtor. With his wife from Russian occupation by French Thomas Barlow wanted his uncle’s but finding it would have been very later, Americans have not forgotten he headed for France in 1788 as the troops. body embalmed and taken to Amer- difficult. In 1995 the American Con- agent of an American land company. A two week wait for a meeting ica, but was told it was inadvisable sul in Kraków helped raise funds for the sacrifice Joel Barlow made for Barlow decided to settle there and was in vain. On December 5 with since the Russians were already in the restoration of the church tablet his country. POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2008 www.polamjournal.com 17

BABA YAGA’S CORNER / Jaga Urban-Klaehn Environmental Problems in Poland In a previous column, I talked When I was a child in the late two grandfathers worked in mining Since it was impossible to about a need to reduce the con- 1960s and early ’70s, the environ- industry. Since Silesia had a very keep anything white in the sumption of goods. As an example, mental pollution problems in Poland dense and urbanized population the center of black coal indus- I showed how we in Poland do did not exist, at least officially. Our majority of the mining exploration is try, the houses were painted not consume as much as people in school books were illustrated with done underground. For instance, the in off-white colors. Typi- United States do. To counterbalance the pictures of the factory chimneys house in which my mother lived is cal industrial districts were this positive image of Poland and emitting grey smoke as a proud ex- located on the surface above a coal built from red brick (see the Eastern Europe, let’s talk about en- ample of industrial progress. At that mine, “Wujek” in Katowice. By the photo from Nikiszowiec, vironmental pollution in the article time, the industrial growth of Poland way, that mine, “Wujek,” became a Katowice’s district). The below. was measured in the amount of steel symbol of Solidarity resistance dur- window frames in Silesia’s How many of you know that the produced. A huge steelworks was ing martial law. Several miners died houses were painted either worst polluted part of Europe is the built in late 1940s and early ’50s in in the consequence of their strike red or green, to keep them “black triangle” between southwest- Nowa Huta (literally meaning “New after military law was imposed in clean. But, I never saw such ern Poland, eastern Germany (East- Steel Mill”) near Krakow. This plant December 1981. clean windows like those in ern Saxony) and the Czech Republic was located there mainly for politi- Silesia! Women there used (Northern Bohemia)? This area is cal reasons, to counterbalance “con- In order to reach coal from to clean their windows at shaped by the range of mountains, servative, anticommunist burgeons” deeper, inaccessible deposits, blast least once a month. The among them so called Giant Moun- against a newly created industrial mining was used. In the late 1970s windows in Silesia are tains (Karkonosze) of Sudeten chain. blue collar workers. Eventually and the early ’80s the coal explora- cleaner than anywhere else Since it was impossible to keep anything The mountains form a wind barrier these workers also turned against tion became so intense that it caused in Poland in spite of the white in the center of the Silesian black which creates unfavorable condi- communism … but it was 20-30 local earthquakes. I remember the pollution around. coal industry, the houses were painted in tions for the dispersion of pollution years later. shaking of the floor, the trembling Ironically, the serious off-white colors. Typical industrial districts from three industrial centers, mainly An even bigger steel mill was of the glass daily—as a result of the economic and political cri- were built from red brick, as above, in Ni- brown coal mining. The mountains built in the 1970s in Silesia, a very mining explosions or maybe … a sis of 1980s helped allevi- kiszowiec, Katowice’s district. in the center of the triangle were af- industrial region, about 65 miles collapse of the mine shafts beneath ate the worst environmental fected by the acid rain from these west of Krakow (the so called steel- my family’s house. The mining ac- problems in Poland. Several plants especially in lake area of Mazuria is industrial centers. It is estimated works Katowice). This investment cidents and the shafts collapses and mines had to slow production, quite different. This region was nev- that 50% of the coniferous forest was never profitable and the -deci were quite frequent but the public while others were closed due to en- er industrially developed (except there disappeared between 1972 and sion to build it has been questioned was only informed about the more vironmental concerns and obsolete a few towns). I remember drink- 1989. Since 1991, all three countries almost since the beginning. It is said serious accidents, with human vic- technology. People became more ing water from lakes in Mazuria. It of this region have tried to work to- that that this investment was pressed tims involved. aware of the environmental prob- would be impossible to drink water gether to alleviate this environmen- upon Poland by the Soviet Union, The landslides and the artificially lems around them. Mass media was from any of the rivers or lakes in tal disaster. since Poland’s iron ore deposits induced “mining” earthquakes had a more open to discuss it. For instance Southern Poland (the rivers usually In the late ‘80s I was on a trip are limited. A special broad gauge devastating effect on housing. Many a big aluminum plant in Skawina stink and do not have even fish in in Sudeten and unaware how bad railway line adapted to the width of Silesian regions and towns (for in- near Krakow was closed as well as them, except the mountain springs the situation was. I remember the Soviet rail was built in Poland for stance, Bytom) were completely many black coal mines in Upper of Southeastern Poland and the riv- first time I encountered the strange the fast transport of ore from the devastated by the mining industry. Silesia and almost all brown coal ers which are close to their sources moonlike landscape with leafless Soviet Union. Investments like that The house where my family lived mines in Lower Silesia. This brought where no any industrial plant was trees and twisted silver trunks. It contributed to the economic crisis in was also damaged. The mines paid many other problems, like huge un- able to pollute it yet). v v v looked amazing but scary. I was Poland in the 1980s. for some repairs but the repairs were employment in these regions, but shocked; I was in a center of one My family comes from Upper not sufficient. at least people could breathe better Visit my Polish Culture website of the worst natural disasters of 20th Silesia. This region was a center of Silesian people are very hard- quality air! at: www.culture.polishsite.us. century! black coal mining for centuries. My working and disciplined people. The situation in Northern Poland,

POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS 2008 Karski and Nirenska Prize Awarded to Szymon Rudnicki WARSAW—Prof. Dr. hab. Szy- in 1938. He is Professor of History on Roman Dmowski’s National De- Scientific Council of the Jewish mon Rudnicki is this year’s winner at the Warsaw University. He has mocracy (Endecja), the ultraright- Historical Institute and the Editorial of the Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska taught for many years and occupied ist National Radical Camp (Oboz Council of the Jewish Historical In- Prize of the YIVO Institute for Jew- administrative positions at Warsaw Narodowo-Radykalny, ONR), and stitute Quarterly. ish Research. University’s History Institute (Dep- its extremist offshoot the ONR-Fa- Professor Jan Karski, the founder Endowed by Professor Jan Kar- uty Director, 1973-1987). He has langa—all known for their radically of the prize at YIVO, was the envoy ski at YIVO in 1992, the $5,000 written monographs and published antisemitic stance. of the Polish government-in-exile prize goes to authors of published widely in scholarly and popular A major topic in Prof. Rudnicki’s during World War II who brought to works documenting Polish-Jewish journals in Poland, Israel, Germany, output is the Jewish question in Po- the West firsthand testimony about relations and Jewish contributions to Russia, and the United States. land and Polish-Jewish relations. the conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto Polish culture. The award ceremony Prof. Rudnicki’s main focus is His writings include essays on the and in German death camps. The will be held in October at the Jewish the history and ideology of Polish national minorities, extremist anti- prize is also named in memory of Historical Institute in Warsaw. right wing movements in the 20th semitism (antysemityzm totalny). 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That concept in turn served (1857-1924) was one of the greatest cake known as “mazurek” in Polish VOIVODE or VOIVOD: Pro- zilian of Polish ancestry, etc. as the basis of the modern calcula- English novelists. About him it has and usually associated with Easter. vincial governor; the official at the THE POLONAISE: A stately tor, particularly that developed by been said that he changed his name OBEREK: A lively Polish folk head of a voivodship. processional dance which to this day Hewlett-Packard. (originally: Teodor Józef Konrad dance in 3/4 time – something like a VODKA: If this word had come opens elegant balls. It always starts POLISH STRIKE: The sit-in Korzeniowski), his country (in Brit- very fast waltz. into English from Polish, not Rus- the “studniówka”, the senior prom used by America’s civil-rights and ain from 1878) and the whole course BABKA: This tall, yeast-raised, sian, it would have been spelled held in Polish high schools 100 days anti-war movements in the 1950s, of the English language. That is no egg-dough bread, baked for centu- “wódka” and pronounced “VOOD- before graduation. ’60s and ’70s, can be traced back exaggeration, because Conrad was ries in Poland at Easter time and for ka. But Poland once actually won À LA POLONAISE: From the to the Polish workers of the 1930s known for the numerous polonisms other festive occasions, is becoming a court case to prove the what we French meaning “in the Polish man- who downed tools but remained in with which he enriched his English. increasingly popular and recogniz- know today as vodka was originally ner”; may be applied to music and their workplaces (more difficult to Studies have been written on the able in America. distilled in the 16th century in Po- other cultural creations, food, styles remove by police or security guards way Polish vocabulary, syntax and PĄCZKI: Polish fruit-filled land, not Russia. and the general ambience. than struikers picketing outside the other linguistic features influenced doughnuts have really taken off in re- POLONAISE TOPPING: This factory gate). The protest became his prose. cent years, after a nationwide launch is the name given throughout the known as the Polish strike. The Polish language has left its took place a couple of decades ago world to the popular Polish garnish POLISH KONIK: A translation imprint on English in other ways, Hamtramck, Michigan near Detroit. made my browning bread crumbs in of the Polish “konik polski” (liter- although their exact sources are They are variously pronoucned as butter. The topping is spooned over ally: little Polish horse) which refers usually more difficult to track down. PUINCH-key, PAUNCH-key or vegetables, pierogi, noodles, etc. to a primitive species of Polish wild These include both words incorpo- PONCH-key. POLONISM: a Polish cultural ponies akin to the extinct forest- rating the “Pol-” root for Pole, Pol- CHRUŚCIKI: Light, sugar- or a Polish linguistic influence. dwelling tarpan and Przewalski’s ish and Poland, as well as other dusted pastry swirls whose name (TO) POLONISE: To make horse of Central Asia. distinctly Polish words and cultural is quite a mouthful for Americans. something Polish, to impart Polish THE POLSKI: A name given concepts. Here are some of them in That is probably why they are also linguistic or cultural influence to in Britain to the Polski Fiat (4-door no particular order: known as angel wings, crisps, bow- something. sedan and station wagon built in Po- PIEROGI: Dough pockets or knot pastries, bow-ties, favors, POLONIUM: A radioactive ele- land under license from Fiat of Italy) dumplings (sometimes referred to kindlewood pastries (that’s what ment discovered by Polish chemist which was exported in the 1970s. as ”Polish ravioli”) which may con- chruściki actually means!) and crul- and physicist Maria Skłodowska- POLAND IN AMERICAN LO- tain a variety of fillings, both - sa lers. Curie (1867-1934), a two-time No- CALITIES: Across America, there vory and sweet. Sometimes spelled SPRUCE: seamen shipping bel Prize winner, who named it after are localities called Poland. and, “pierogies” in America, although timber from northern Poland in the her homeland. including Poland Township, Ohio. “pierogi” is already in the plural: Middle Ages were asked in Brit- Colorado Blue Spruce. POLKA: The popularity of Others with a Polish cultural or his- one pieróg, two pierogi. ain what they were bringing. They polka music across Polonia and the torical connotation include several MEAD: This medieval honey thought they were being asked Words and expressions contain- word’s “pol-” root has led many n places called Pulaski, Kosciuszko wine, derived from the word “miód” where they were from and replied ing the “pol-” root incldue: to believe this is something intrin- (often misspelled), Warsaw, Indi- (honey), traced its roots to heav- “Z Prus” (from Prussia), and that is POLONIA (1): The personifica- sically Polish. But the Czechs vig- ana, Czestochowa and Panna Maria, ily forested Poland, Lithuania and how the English name for the conif- tion of Poland, a symbolic female orously protest, saying this is their Texas, Posen (Poznań) and Livonia Ruthenia, where this was once the erous tree and timber is said to have figure equivalent to France’s Mari- national dance and in their language (Inflanty in Polish—a region of the tipple of choice. Poland continues come about. anne and America’s Columbia; Po- “polka” means “one-half” (like the old Polish-Lithuanian Common- to produce some very fine meads GHERKIN: The Polish word lonia may be seen in Jan Matejko’s Polish “połówka”) – a reference to wealth) in Michigan as well as So- (“miód pitny”). “ogórek” and/or its close Russian painting of a kneeling woman being the melody’s 2/4 beat. bieski and Polonia, Wiscosnin. KIEŁBASA: A garlicky sau- cousin “огурец” (pronounced: aw- shackled to symbolize Poland’s en- POLISH NOTATION: A math- POLAND SPRING WATER: sage, containing mainly pork and goo-rets), used to describe a fresh slavement during the partitions. ematical concept, also known as Despite its name, neither this bot- seasoned with pepper and (some- cucumber of a cured one (like a dill POLONIA (2): The Latin word prefix notation, created in the 1920s tled water (now owned by Swiss times) also marjoram. Often mis- pickle) went into German as “Gurke” for Poland has also come to mean by Polish logician Jan Łukasiewicz, food giant Nestlé) or the town of pronounced in the US as “kabassa” and into English and “gherkin,” Polish émigré communities, e.g. which simplified sentential logic by Poland, Maine, where it is pro- or “kielbassy”. DROSHKY: an open horse- American Polonia, British Polonia, eliminating the parentheses in math- duced, have anything to do with MAZURKA (1): A folk dance drawn carriage known in Polish as etc. ematical formulae. Poland. The town was named after of the Mazury region, made world a “dorożka”. POLONIAN: An émigré Pole REVERSE POLISH NOTA- an Indian chief named Poland, but famous by the compositions of Fry- VOIVODESHIP or VOIVD- or his foreign-born descendant; a TION: In the 1960s, Łukasiewicz’s nobody knows how or why he got deryk Chopin. In Polish the dance is SHIP: Polish province, from the member of Polish community be- original concept was further devel- that name. known as a “mazur” or (in the di- Polish “województwo”. Poland is yond Poland’s borders such as a oped into what became known as

stare dobre czasy / Stan Bednarczyk Od Wódki, Rozum Krótki Everyone should believe in severe intoxication taboos, the cul- all that dedication comes much re- seem a bit berserk, I have an expla- in regard to inebriation: something. tural drinking indictments of today, sponsibility and even more tension. nation: • Pijany żyje dwa razy krócej, I believe I’ll have a drink. And and the avoidance of the political Fortunately, those Polish genes have • Od wódki, rozum krótki. ale widzi dwa razy więcej. with that drink some tantalizing, correctness cops. But listen: I dis- also been blessed with the ability From drink, wits shrink. To the drunkard who lives half Polish toasts. No, not the edible covered these Polish drinking toasts of knowing how to imbibe to cre- That’s not to say that whiskey as long, but sees everything kind, but the vocal kind. Not the tra- on the Internet and I’m forwarding ate a good time when the opportu- glass therapy does not have its twice. ditional “na zdrowie” or time worn them to Polonia the way they were nity presents itself. While it may healthful side: Certainly, honesty should also “sto lat,” kind but those of a humor- written. If taken with a bit of humor not always apply, there have been • Kto pije, długo żyje come into play: ously, memorable stature. I want and overlooking the precise transla- pressure relieving times when the Who drinks, lives long. • Lepiej być znanym pijakiem, these Polish toasts to focus, to have tions, they can be quite amusing. bending of an elbow for a shot (or Of course, with excessive drink- niż anonimowym alko- impact, to celebrate the art of light- Not that apologies have to be six) in the name of hospitality has ing there’s always the danger of holikiem. heartedness and gleeful cheer. rendered for lifting a kieliszek in the not been uncommon. Verification concussions. It’s better to be a known drunk Something like: spirit of good will and Polish ca- of that account has been personally • No, to spotkami się than an anonymous alcoholic. • Piję by paść, Padam by wstać, maraderie. After all, it is no secret experienced at the kitchen tables of na podłodze. And yes, even the subject of Wstaję by pić, Piję by zyć. that our Polish genes are imbedded my relatives on my visits to Poland. ’til we meet next, on the floor. drinking and driving is addressed I drink till I fall, fall to rise, I rise in hard work, unquestionable disci- Is it any wonder that Poland was the Then there’s the toast saluted just with illuminating candor: to drink, drink to be wise. pline, passionate, religious devotion forerunner of vodka discovery and before the last call at bar closing • Nie pij gdy prowadzisz: OK, so the translation isn’t com- and even remarkable soldiering. its progression? time: za dużo się rozlewa. pletely accurate, not to mention the (“Jak to na wojence ładnie.”) With Nevertheless, if my writing wits • Nie ma brzydkich kobiet, Don’t drink when driving: tylko są trzeźwi mężczyźni. you’ll spill too much. No such thing as ugly women, Along with all these topics, old BRUSH UP / Prepared and distributed by the Polonia Media Network just sober men. age does not take a subordinate And how can serious drinkers role: be accused of disregarding funeral • Stare życie jest jak wino: Phonetic hh is like ch in loch • Phonetic ai is like eye planning arrangements when they kwaśnieje, wszystko opada Grocery Shopping IV m, n, f denotes male, female, neuter toast: na dno szparagi...... (shpah-RAH-gee) m, pl seler...... (SEH-lehr) m • Każdy wypity kieliszek— I trudno się pozbyć. asparagus celery to gwóźdź do naszej Old age is like wine: fasola...... (fah-SOH-lah) f kukurydza...... (kuh-kuh-RIH-dzah) f trumny—pijmy więc tak by it sours, everything separates bean corn trumna się nie rozpadła. and sinks, buraki...... (buh-RAH-kee) m, pl ogórek...... (oh-GUH-rehk) m Every shot we take is one more and difficult to get rid of. beetroots cucumber nail in our coffin— In reviewing all these fine toasts, brukselka...... (bruhk-SEHL-kah) f cykoria...... (tsih-KOH-ryah) f that’s going to be one well built I find myself favoring this last one: brussel sprout endive coffin. • Zdrowie żon i kochanek— kapusta...... (kah-PUHS-tah) f fasola szparagowa ����� (fah-SOH-lah shpah-RAH-goh-vah) f Sometimes, the need for drinking oby się nigdy nie spotkały! cabbage green string bean should be considered vital: To the health of our wives and marchew...... (MAHR-hhehf) f chrzan...... (hhshahn) m • Człowiek nie kaktus, lovers— carrot horseradish pić musi. and may they never meet! kalafior...... (kah-LAH-fyor) m por...... (pohr) m Man’s no cactus, drink he must. Hey! Being the stary dziad that I cauliflower leek How about a bit of illogical logic am, I can still fantasize! POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL • SEPTEMBER 2008 www.polamjournal.com 19

THE OLD COUNTRY / Richard Poremski HERITAGE IN MEMORIAM / Lydia M. Kordalewski Zamosc, Poland, May 18, 1976 Self-Made A Woman of Her Time: Harriet Irsay Entrepreneur Harriet Irsay was a Polish Amer- by Ellye Slusarczyk ican woman of her time. Born to She’s a household name. She’s poor Polish immigrants in Chicago, a well-acclaimed author of several Harriet Pogorzelski grew up to be the Matriarch of the Indianapolis books. She’s a well-known televi- Colts. She was also well known for sion personality. Hundreds of ar- her charitable work, which she car- ticles have been written about her. ried out to an extraordinary degree. Perhaps you have already She was admired for her profes- guessed that we are referring to sionalism and creativity, as well as Martha Stewart, homemaker extro- her leading role in promoting Polish donaire, born Martha Helen Kostyra organizations. Harriet passed away in Nutley, N.J., August 3, 1941. Her last month at the age of 87 of natural parents were middle class Polish causes. Americans with an extremely high Harriet served on the Board of work ethic. Martha’s mother, from Directors of the American Institute an early age, had instilled in her the of Polish Culture and established the proper way of running a household Harriet Irsay Scholarship Fund for gift of a million dollars. The NOBLE most successfully. This included American students of Polish descent is an organization in central Indiana home decoration, cooking, canning, who are studying Communications that serves more than 2,000 children baking, and gardening. and Journalism. She underwrote the and adults with disabilities. Attention! Beware the Beasts of Prey! Martha was a straight a student first prize for the International Cho- She divided her time between in high school. To supplement her pin Piano competitions and the lec- three homes in Bal Harbour, Flori- family’s income she modeled and ture series for the Kosciuszko Chair da; Indianapolis, Indiana and Chi- TRIVIA TIME / Ellye Slusarczyk appeared in several television com- of Polish Studies at the University cago. Over the years, she inspired mercials. She was awarded a partial of Virginia. and charmed us with her giving na- 1. On St.Martin’s Day it is a tradi- plex scholarship to Barnard College in In 1977, her son Jim established ture, boundless energy and generous tion to serve a) pork b) sausage c) 7. Herman Han, a famous painter, New York City, in 1961 she mar- the Harriet Irsay Endowment Fund heart. She never forgot her Polish goose was from a) Lysa Gora b) Gdansk ried Andrew Stewart, a lawyer, and at the NOBLE Foundation with a roots and was very proud of them. 2. St.Stanislaus is the patron saint of c) Susiec later on he became a book publisher. a) miners b) youth c) farmers 8. To reach Puck from Gdynia, you Their marriage ended in 1989 and 3. Wit Stwosz was a a) sculptor b) travel a) east b) south c) north their only child is daughter, Alexis. Polish Heritage Dancers writer c) humanitarian 9. King Ladislau IV Vosa built a for- Martha honed her business skills 4. The Eve of St. Katherine is a day tress and war port at a) Puck b) by becoming a stockbroker, man- Seeking New Members of fortune-telling for a) boys b) Sopot c) Gdynia aging a lucrative catering business, girls c) married couples 10. “Sea Star” is a patron of a) fish- BUFFALO, N.Y.—The Polish Day, WNY’s largest Polish pre- and running a specialty food store. 5. Established in 1815, was the Free erman b) sailors c) boat builders Heritage Dancers has been educat- Lenten celebration, at the Hearth- A true animal lover, Martha raises Republic of a) Poland b) Torun c) ing as well as entertaining the pub- stone Manor. Himalayan cats, Chow dogs, French Krakow ANSWERS. 1.c goose 2.b youth lic on Polish fold dancing since The group can also customize 6. The towns of Naleczow, Kazimi- 3.a sculptor 4.a boys 5.c Krakow bulldogs and Friesian horses. Mar- 1997. It is under the direction of a program on various customs and erz Dolny, and Pulawy form the a) 6.b Polish Bermuda Triangle 7.b tha’s showpiece, meticulously re- Michelle Michalski Kisluk. traditions for schools, libraries, Spa Park Trio b) Polish Bermuda Gdansk 8.c north 9.a Puck 10.a fish- stored 1805 mansion, is Turkey Hill New members are always wel- meetings and events. Triangle c) Triple Castle Com- ermen in Wesport, Connecticut. come. As the ambassador’s of If you would like to be part of WNY’s Polonia, they represent this dynamic group or would like the Polish American community at more information on its upcom- PGSC and CCSU Polish Chair Co-Sponsor many events. ing events, call (716) 937-0032 or The group consists of a chil- 681-3526. dren’s group and youth group, If dancing is not your style, you Genealogical Conference, October 3-4 which meet Friday evenings and can still be a part of the group by NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—The Romuald K.Byczkiewicz of the Throughout the day, a collection a teen/adult group that meets on attending church functions, pa- 2008 Polish Genealogical Confer- History Department, CCSU; and “ of books, maps and other materi- Monday evenings. Practices are rades, manning display tables and ence, sponsored by the Polish Ge- From DNA To Genetic Genealogy: als will be available to all attendees held at the Holy Mother of the nealogical Society of Connecticut Everything You Wanted To Know for consultation. An officer of PG- Rosary Cathedral on Broadway in to work behind the scenes with and the Northeast, Inc., and the En- But Were Afraid To Ask” with Dr. SCTNE will be present to answer Lancaster. Costumes are provided sewing, props, and fundraising. dowed Chair of the Polish and Pol- Stephen P. Morse. questions. by the group. Boys and men are The PHD is also looking for those ish American Studies Central Con- The conference will be held at Contact the Polish Genealogi- especially needed to balance the interested in starting an authentic necticut State University will be Central Connecticut State Universi- cal Society of Connecticut and the group. folk band as well. held Oct. 3-4. ty Student Center, 1615 Stanley St. Northeast, Inc. at 8 Lyle Road, New Back by popular demand, it The group is a member of the On Fri., Oct. 3, a Beginner’s The fee is $40 Friday and Sat- Britain, CT 06053-2104; (860) 223- will be once again be presenting Polish Folk Dance Association of Workshop, “Getting Started: Find- urday; $35 Saturday only, which 5596; www.pgsctne.org; e-mail pg- “A Polish Christmas in Village” the Americas, Polish National Al- ing the Missing Pieces of Your Pol- includes a Polish American buffet [email protected]. at the Lancaster Opera House, De- liance, Polish American Congress, ish-American Family History” will lunch (Saturday only). cember 27-28. This show sells out, and the Polish Cultural Founda- be hosted by Prof. Jonathan D. Shea, Jonathan D. Shea (Belarus and Renew your subscription on-line so get you tickets early. tion. A.G., and Matthew R. Bielawa. Lithuania) and Matthew R. Bielawa www polamjournal com On February 22, 2009 the PHD You can visit its website at On Sat., Oct. 4 sessions include: (Ukraine), are well-versed in ge- . . Secure Server will host their 12th annual Paczki www.phdofwny.com. “A Potpourri of Genealogical Search nealogical research methodology Tools: One-Step Webpages” with in neighboring nations. They also Dr. Stephen P. Morse; “A Ques- hold advanced degrees in foreign HONORS / Jennifer Moskal tion of Identity: Polish Immigrants languages. So bring your incompre- and Polish Americans, with Prof. hensible documents with you. ACADEMIA. Stanislaw Iwanisze- High School’s class of 2008 ... Kath- tertainment editor of the Chicago Sun- (718) 383-8600 wski is an archaeology professor at ryn McIntosh-Ciechanowski Times, has been promoted to manag-  the National Institute of Anthropology was awarded the “Best Dissertation of ing editor of Broadcasting & Cable. A.K. No. 383-0320 and History in Mexico ... Morgan Fi- the Year” by the National Association Dennis Woytek, assistant pro-  Peter Rago erek of Goetzville attended the Rural of Bilingual Education ... Anna Ma- fessor in the Journalism and Multi-  Lic. Mgr. Electric Youth Tour in Washington, D.C. zurkiewicz is a visiting historian media Arts Department at Duquesne, and met with U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak from the University of Gdansk in Po- received a Telly Award for his outstand- Leslie P. Rago (D-Mich.). ... John M. Kuchinski land, working at the IHRC at the Uni- ing work in documentary film, titled “A F.D. was salutatorian of Lancaster Catholic versity of Minnesota. Journey in Faith,” about a pilgrimage to Medjugorje ... Greg A. Swiszcz was Jurek-Park Slope ARTS. Erica Roslonski joined the named president of Ad 2 Phoenix, an Funeral Home, Inc. Mountain Playhouse staff in Pennsylva- organization for advertising, market- FUNERAL HOME, INC. nia as Director of Development earlier ing and communications professionals  this year ... Matthew Wolach was ages 31 and younger. Tanya Supen- 131 Nassau Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222 hired as president of Freelance Design ski was also named to the board. Group in Arizona. MEDICINE. Joan M. Grzybowski, “A tradition of local & long distance service continues!” AWARDS. Fred Bankowski, an en- D.O., F.A.C.O.F.P., of East Norriton, was gineering consultant from Norristown, recently re-elected to serve on the received a certificate of appreciation board of trustees of the Pennsylva- 728 4th Ave., Brooklyn, NY from Polonia Technica, the Association nia Osteopathic Medical Association of Polish-American Engineers in Penn- (POMA) ... John Pawlowicz, a clini- Stobierski Lucas DORIS V. AMEN LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTOR sylvania cal instructor at the Las Vegas Institute NEWLY DECORATED CHAPEL FACILITIES for Advanced Dental Studies, earned a Gardenview OUR 24-HOUR PERSONAL SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE IN ALL COMMUNITIES MEDIA. Erika Niedowski is a jour- fellowship with the International Col- AT-HOME ARRANGEMENTS nalist for The Baltimore Sun ... Mela- lege of Cranio-Mandibular Orthope- Funeral Home, Ltd. INSURANCE CLAIMS HANDLED SOCIAL SECURITY & VETERAN’S BENEFITS nie Radzicki McManus writes for dics ... Dr. Richard Wozniak was Rita A. 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Poles Take First Place at NEWSWIRE Chicago’s “Venetian Night” MUSEUM CELEBRATES TWO name “the dragon,” paleontologists of the summit. Climbers frequently DECADES. Saturday, August 9, will continue examination of the fall because of avalanches and other com . 2008, marked the 20th Anniversary bones and fully record the discovery harsh conditions in Kyrgyzstan. The of the opening of the Polish Ameri- prior to deciding what name will be ex-Soviet state is home to some of can Cultural Center Museum at 308 given to the new dinosaur. the world’s highest mountain peaks Walnut Street in Philadelphia. On Also unearthed at the same site but funding for mountain rescue op- August 9, 1988, then Vice President was a dicynodon, a reptile known erations is lacking.

marcinphotovideo George Bush, Sr., along with John to be a direct predecessor of mam- Cardinal Krol, Archbishop of Phila- mals. American Soldiers Join Pil- delphia, Michael Blichasz, president “We are almost certain that grimage. Five Americans were PHOTO: © of the Museum, members of the “Dragon” hunted animals like this among hundreds of soldiers who Cultural Center’s board, elected of- herbivorous dicyndon, which looked set off on a ten-day march to Cze- ficials, children from St. Adalbert’s like a hippopotamus but was much stochowa and Jasna Gora, Poland’s Polish Language School and a large bigger,” said Sulej. holiest Roman Catholic shrine. crowd of Polish Americans gathered Five members of the Illinois Na- to cut the ribbon at the new Museum GERMAN NUDISTS UPSET. Ger- tional Guard traveled to Poland to Exhibit Hall. The Museum is a focal man nude beachgoers in full view of make the 150-mile trek. They hiked point for Polish Americans and tour- Poles are upset with the Poles, who alongside Poles, Germans and other ists visiting Historic Philadelphia. they claim are gawking at them. Europeans from Warsaw to the site From 1981 to 1986 the Cen- The beach near the Polish town of of the revered Black Madonna icon. Chicago’s Venetian Night Winner: Joseph Conrad Yacht Club. ter was located at 24th and Brown Swinoujscie on the Polish-German Although the 300-year-old pil- by Geraldine Balut Coleman 2008 Venetian Night’s coveted First Streets in the Fairmount section of border, was once fenced in, but the grimage has deep religious and pa- CHICAGO—On July 26, the Prize. Chicago area photographer, Philadelphia. In 1986 the search be- fence was removed in 2007, follow- triotic resonance in the mainly Cath- City of Chicago held its 51st Vene- Marcin Chojecki, conceived the gan for a building that would allow ing Poland’s accession to the Schen- olic country, the main purpose of the tian Night. Modeled after the tradi- idea of a “children and summer fun” an exhibit hall and its related activi- gen borderless zone. U.S. contingent is to show solidarity tions of Venice’s boat parade, Chi- theme for “Moonshadow.” In addi- ties to function under one roof. In Polish politicians calling the sight with Poland. cago’s oldest city-sponsored event tion, Marcin and Elizabeth Chojecki 1987 the Cultural Center acquired of naked bathers “offensive” have Master Sergeant Roman Waldron featured 35 decorated boats sailing along with Wojtek Hryniewicki 308 Walnut Street in the heart of told the German nudists to cover up of Springfield said it was a chance to this year’s theme: “Summer’s Fa- decorated the boat. Youngsters Philadelphia. on the beach and have accused the to come together and develop closer vorite City.” from the Polanie Dance Troupe of Germans of being “perverts.” The bonds with allies in a non-combat While approximately 665,000 Schaumburg Ill., under the direc- THE REMAINS OF T-REX AN- nudists countered by saying they setting. people attended Venetian Night tion of Ewa Tyrawa, danced to the CESTOR were found in Southern will sunbathe as nature intended. festivities, the boats sailed from recorded composition “LaGrange” Poland by paleontologists digging in “It’s a nudist beach. It’s terrible President signs tax abo- the Shedd Aquarium to the Chi- of the Texas musical group ZZ a brickyard. The fossilized dinosaur that Poles come over, dressed, and lition for Poles abroad. cago Yacht Club facility located at Top. The young dancers performed was excavated in Lisowice, a vil- stare,” said a nude beachgoer from (Polish Radio)—President Lech Montrose Harbor. The surprise of a special dance routine which was lage about 125 miles south of War- Germany. Kaczynski has signed into law tax the evening was Chicago Polonia’s choreographed by Margaret Skrzyp- saw. Scientists declared the predator “It’s horrible, we would never abolition for Poles working abroad. Joseph Conrad Yacht Club entrance kowski. Ms. Skrypkowski created a dinosaur a previously unknown an- bathe naked. We are Catholic,” said Parliament had passed the legisla- sailboat “Moonshadow”, owned lively dance filled with Texas-ori- cestor of tyrannosaurus rex and es- a Polish beachgoer from Swinoujs- tion during the last week of July. and crewed by Stanislaw Hrynie- entated dance routines and a bit of timate that it lived about 200 million cie The law concerns taxpayers who wicki and son Wojtek. As this sail- traditional Polish flare. years ago. Team member Tomasz obtained their income abroad and in boat cruised close to shore and past After the sun had set, the City Sulej of the Polish Science Acad- A POLISH CLIMBER DIED closed Poland between 2002 and 2007. It thousands of clapping and singing of Chicago thrilled those hundreds emy described the dinosaur as hav- to the summit of one of Kyrgyzstan’s mainly pertains to those countries spectators, who gave their standing of thousands in the audience with ing moved on two legs and as being highest peaks, falling on the 7,000- with which Poland does not have an ovation approval, it was no won- an hour of creatively beautiful and five yards long with teeth up to two meter high Khan Tengri mountain. agreement on avoiding double taxa- der that “Moonshadow” won the breathe-taking fireworks. inches in length. Although given the Oleksi Mateusz fell while just short tion.

71st Annual . . . www.pulaskiparade.org PULASKI DAY PARADE GENERAL PULASKI MEMORIAL PARADE COMMITTEE, INC. 628 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215 • [email protected] • Richard Zawisny, President Sunday, October 5, 2008 • 12:30 PM Fifth Avenue from 29th Street to 53rd Street, New York City Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Polish Pioneers arriving at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia

Saturday September 27, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. PULASKI MARRIOT MARQUIS HOTEL, New York City For Tickets or Information: Hon. Peter Jessica or Christina Topolosky 908-353-3807 Fax: 908-820-3776 BANQUET E-mail: [email protected] C. Eagler 2008 Pulaski Parade Grand Marshal PULASKI PARADE MASS Sun., Oct. 5, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. • ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL, New York City PULASKI PARADE BREAKFAST Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. • 3 West Club, New York City For Tickets or Information: Penny Donach 718-389-4105 • E-mail: [email protected]

If you wish to view the Parade from the comfort of the reviewing stands, which will be located at 40th and 41st streets, you may purchase tickets at the discounted price of $10.00 prior to the date of the parade, by contacting: Richard Zawisny 718-499-0026 or via e-mail: [email protected]. Many Polish-American organizations will be marching up Fifth Avenue accompanied by numerous dignitaries who will also grace us with their presence at previously mentioned venues. Show your Polish-American pride and heritage by supporting these events. We look forward to seeing you as we celebrate our Polish Heritage and Pride together on Fifth Avenue in New York City

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