1166 AUGUST 27,, 2017 SOWER TThhee UUkkrraaiinniiaann MMuusseeuumm aanndd LLiibbrraarryy ooff SSttaammffoorrdd WE SHALL SOON CELEBRATE AN 80TH ANNIVERSARY! Part Five by Lubow Wolynetz, Curator

Prior to the founding of our worker named Yaroslav Pasternak, etc. In He had studied at the Lviv and Prague received Hutsul metal crosses, walking Ukrainian Museum and Library and up 1915, Father Leo was sent to America to University from which he received his doctor- sticks, metal clasps, a gun powder horn to World War II, civic and religious lead- serve as a pastor in various Ukrainian al degree. He conducted over seventy archae- keg, boxes decorated with metal inlays, a ers of the Ukrainian community in Catholic parishes. Whererver he served, ological expeditions in Czechoslovakia, leather shoulder bag and belt inlaid with America were in continuous communi- Father Leo tried to instill among his parish- Zakarpattia, and Halychyna. He is best known metal studs, etc. In gratitude for all these cation with their brethren in Halychyna, ioners interest in their cultural heritage and for his archaeological excava- especially with the leaders of various mindfulness of their national identity. He tions in the 1930s of the cultural and educational institutions. even provided an update of the activities of ancient princely city of World War I had brought about physi- their brethren in Halychyna. In order to help Halych, founded between the the National Museum in Lviv in the aftermath 9th and 10th centuries. It was of World War I, Father Leo organized fund- the capital of the principality raisings among his parishioners and encour- of Galicia during the reign of aged them to join the Museum’s circle of Prince Yaroslav Osmomysl friends. (We have many of these applications (b.? – 1187) and others from and donations in our archival collection.) 1141-1241. Pasternak uncov- With the founding of our Museum and ered the remains of the Library by Bishop Constantine Bohachevsky, Dormition Cathedral which Father Leo was obvious best choice to was built in 1157, the city become the first curator of this institution. walls, the sarcophagus of Yaroslav Osmomysl gifts, Father Leo held fund-raising cam- His interest in and knowl- with his skeleton, a paigns among Ukrainians in America and edge of museum work, hoard of silver and gold donated the proceeds to Yaroslav as well as his previous jewelry, numerous Pasternak, thus enabling him to contin- connections with experts metal, glass and ceram- ue his archaeological excavations in the in this field in Lviv, served ic artifacts. When the princely city of Halych. Yaroslav him well and proved to be first news of these find- Pasternak managed to escape the Soviet cal, cultural, and political devastation in of utmost importance in ings reached the world, occupation of western Ukraine in 1944; Halychyna. Revitalizing life and activi- laying a solid professional scholars proclaimed he lived in Germany for a while, and later ties was slow and costly, especially foundation and in assem- that “Galician Troy is emigrated to Canada. By an irony of fate, because of the impediments which for- bling a representative col- discovered”. when visiting our Museum in Stamford eign domination had placed upon its lection. In response to in the 1960s, Pasternak was able to see on development. Ukrainians in America, In order to con- Father Leo’s request for exhibit the very artifacts which he was often with the guidance of their pastors tinue the enrichment of help in collecting instrumental in donating to enrich our and religious, leaders did their utmost to our Museum’s holdings appropriate artifacts for Museum holdings in the 1930s. There is help by raising necessary funds and during its developmental our Museum, Pasternak an old saying that what you do in life financing cultural and educational proj- stages, Father Leo con- was more than happy to may come back to haunt you or to bless ects. As an example of this support, let tacted one of his former oblige. The Cultural you. What Yaroslav Pasternak did, us consider the work of Father Leo acquaintances, namely Yaroslav Pasternak, and Historical Museum of the Shevchenko through the mediation of Father Leo Chapelsky. Father Leo, having worked 1892-1969, to help him in this endeavor. Scientific Society had Chapelsky, certainly benefited our for a few years at the National Museum Yaroslav Pasternak was the director of the multiple samples of in Lviv (founded in 1905 by Shevchenko Scientific Society’s Cultural and various artifacts; and Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsk), was Historical Museum in Lviv (1928-1939). By director Pasternak well acquainted with its work, its col- profession, Pasternak was an archaeologist. willingly donated lections, its director I. Svientsitsky, a co- them to our Museum. He selected 86 items which consisted of folk ceramics, earth- enware pottery, and folk metal artifacts. He chose samples of Hutsul pottery by the outstanding Hutsul potter Oleksa Bakhmetiuk, 1820-1882. These samples included tiles, candelabras, plates, pitchers, Museum and indeed was a blessing for pottery from the Sokal and Podillia region, a all involved. Hence, in this 80th year of ceramic incense holder from the Poltava our anniversary it behooves us to give region, children’s clay figurines and toys and credit and thanks to all those who con- others. Among the folk metal artifacts, we tributed to the development and flourish- ing of our Museum and Library. EExxplorree aanndd Exxppeeriieennccee OOuurr PPaasstt

80th Anniversary Guest Speakers feature: Most Reverend LAWRENCE HUCELAK, OSBM, is the Metropolitan-Archbishop of Winnipeg, Canada since 2006. He was ordained a priest of the Basilian Order in 1977, having completed doctoral studies in Eastern liturgical theology in Rome. He was instru- mental in the development of the National Basilian Fathers’ Ukrainian Cultural and Heritage Museum in Mundare, Alberta and chaired the building of its new modernized facilities in 1991. He served as the Ordinary of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton, Canada from 1997 until his appointment as the leading primate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of Canada. Metropolitan Lawrence is a prominent benefactor of Saint Volydymyr Ukrainian Catholic Museum in Winnipeg.

JURIJ DOBCZANSKY is the Senior Cataloging Specialist of the German and Slavic Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. He also chairs the Library and Archives Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. Having grown up in the Ukrainian-American community of New Haven, Connecticut, Jurij and his wife Olenka live in Silver Spring, Maryland and are members of the Holy Family Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine parish of Washington, DC. Donation for Banquet tickets are one hundred twenty-five dollars per person. Reservations can be made by calling: (203)-323-8866 ; (917)-501-8881.