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SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT YONKERS, NEW YORK AND OTHER MAILING ADDRESSES ; - NO; 16 CARPATHO-RUS, YONKERS, NY AUGUST 1, 1997 VOL LXX Notice Celebrating 29 Years of ANNUAL PICNIC CRA CENTER (LEMKO HALL) Lemko Festival The annual picnic for Lemko Hall will be I Tradition !, held on Sunday August 10, 1997 beginning at 1 :30 PM on the grounds of Lemko Hall. Good On Sunday, August 17, 1997 ethnic good, music and fellowship is promised' AT ROVA RESORT, ROUTE 571, CASSVillE, NJ to all who attend. CONCERT BEGINS AT 1:00 PM FEATURING Executive Board - CRA Center Irina Zagormova & Andrei Tcherniak [Kiev & 81. Petersburg Opera] and their instrumentalists / Kalinka Dancers (' September 6 t CRA Center, Lemko Hall ~6 Yonkers Avenue Peter Schudich & Anna Harajbicova Yonkers, NY 10704 Accordionist & Folk Singers This year the Convention will convene at Nick the Bulgar Lemko Hall where previous Conventi;c:rrnMN1~.tu:lJ1d fgr!~,~' Registration of ') /?~delegates will begin at 9:30 AM with the Convention J Alexander, Valentina & Olga KOZAK l.!o begin at 10:00 AM. ~ogress~JJ Folk singers (Juring the day's proceecf;ngs.- the delegates may be able to conclude all activities, including the electiQn Dukati, Serbian Folklore Ensemble of officers in one day. A banquet will then be served by the staff of the Center upon completion of all deliberations. Harmony Slavic Band with soloist, Silvia Matolakova The full program of the Convention will be Panahida Services will be given by Rev. Prokopiuk printed in the next issue of Karpatska Rus. If the at 12:30 at the Pushkin Park Memorial Branches have any special items that they wish to be placed on the Agenda for discussion and , Outdoor stage, [indoor, if it rains) deliberation by the Convention, kindly submit these items in writing to anyone of the Executive Board Ethnic Dance Music at Folk Art members noted below. Food the Pavilion Exhibits NOTE TO ALL BRANCHES: Kindly select your Delegates to our 39th bi-annual Convention and Ad mission $9 .• children under 15 are free submit the' names, via telephone or letter, as quickly as possible, to one of the following To ROVA RESORT: From North; NJ Turnpike to Executive Board members:.~ Exit 8. Hightstown, then Route 571 south to Rova. From South; NJ Turnpike to Exit 7A. then 1-195 / lexander Herenchak, press)\. East to Exit 16. then 571 south to Rova. P;O. Box 156 . Allentown, NJ 08501 ~ .! 'JJJ~S el: 609-758-1115 /J_.;::-::;::;~~J:':::':~::;~~"""'J/ . Mary Barker, V.P. 521 Piermont Avenue Riverval~, ~~JJ. .o7~~~_ . Tel: 20101364-8693. '\ tP-~:ii~f~f~~e:::::eas )\ 1\ Tel: 201-930-0220 "', . ~ Bard of the Russian land Lemkovschina is the birthplace of many men of culture, science and art. It is about one of them, Igor Grabar, the painter and academician of Continued on Page 2, Column 1 ~~ wckt' PAGE 2 CARPATHO--RUS FRIDAY, AUGUST 1,1997 boy. He shot off his finger tip down to the first Continued from Page 1, Column 1 An economy that was wasteful and knuckle while playing with a bee and flower. inefficient by its very nature, geared for decades to world reknown, that O. Podobedov's book, "Igor Shepherd boys were necessary to protect sheep producing nothing more profitable than tanks and Emanuilovich Grabar," relates. from wild pigs. In school when a student misbehaved, you were forced to kneel on dry peas. missiles, had begun to crack under the added load of Afghanistan and Chernobyl. In January 1987, Grabar's father, Emanuil Ixanovich, was He said, "it was painful". industrial output fell by six percent compared to married to Olga Dobryansky, daughter of Adolf December 1986, and emergency measures had to Dobryansky, known for his Russian-Carpathian He loved his homeland. He loved his be taken to avert an economic crisis. That jolt activities. In 1882, both father and daughter were mother's black bread and butter. He remembered showed that the economy was in a very unstable jailed for high treason "attempting to wrest Galicia going to the creek with his mother and other village pOSition, and Gorbachev was keenly aware of that. from Austria-Hungary and join it to Russia." The women to watch them wash clothes on large slavonic patriots were conversant with Olga stones. He said, "The clothes looked very clean." Gorbachev also knew a few facts about the Grabar's political trial, and only after it was she able Between the ages of 16 and 19 my father left for defense situation of which the Soviet public was to join her husband in Russia. America. He, with his reiati'J8s, peeled potatoes on only dimly aware at the time. In the 1970s, it the ocean crOSSing. appeared, the Soviet leaders initiated a program for Igor Grabar had shown a talent for drawing building intermediate-range missiles, the famous My father worked on grandfather Stchur's at an early age. He was still in art school when he farm for a few years. He told grandfather Stchur SS-20s which, despite their official classification, painted his first fine landscapes, "Birch Grove" one day to "Wake up and we will do the farm were more like strategic missiles in range and Views of the Kremlin & Views of Moscow." He gav~ chores early and rest in the afternoon". This advice destructive power. Their deployment in Europe much time to literature, language .and history. He was a stupid, adventurist move, as it tipped the even tried his hand at writing stories and satirical was taken unkindly and grandfather Stchur discharged him. This separation fell as though cut balance of power in the Soviet Union's favor, and sketches. They appeared in the Rus magazine, the West predictably retaliated by deploying on "The Alarm Clock" and "Bits and Pieces". clean with a mighty sword. Friendliness and closeness remained at a standstill. Love did not European soil American Pershing-2s, which could grow. reach Moscow in about five minutes flying time. After finishing school, Igor went to St. Marshal Akhromeyev made it perfectly clear to Petersburg. There he studied Law at the University, My father cut wood all winter to keep our Gorbachev that there was no effective defense and continued to draw, paint and write. His stories against Pershings. Ali majo, Soviet cities in the and drawings appeared in "Niva". His illustrations house warm. He became a colliery worker with the Hudson Coal Company at the Pine Ridge Colliery country's most denseiy populated area were for Gogol's "Greatcoat," "Fair at Sorochinks," and [Pa.]. He stayed there until retirement. On defenseless against a Pershing strike. The country "Christmas Eve" attracted the attention of writers was, in fact, living with a cocked pistol to its head. critics and artists. He entered St. Petersburg occasion, he worked for Ira Kresge, Bear Creek Township Supervisor digging ditches along Bald Academy of Fine Arts and studied under the great Unlike previous Soviet leaders, Gorbachev Russian master, lIya Repin. Mountain Road. He also cut ice from ponds and acted as a fireman when summoned to a fire on was not prepared to live with that threat, and he acted on his decision. After' Reykjavik, protracted Bald Mountain. He travelled abroad to Munich Berlin negotiations were conducted and a treaty on Luxemburg and Paris. On his return to R'ussia h~ My father was a beautiful worker. There limiting intermediate-nuclear forces (INF) was spent a great deal of time in the Moscow hammered out. So early in December Gorbachev was much goodness and truth in him. Once we countryside painting landscapes. He also visited accompanied by wife Raissa and a huge retinue of the old towns of Pskov, Novgorod and Arkhangelsk were very noisy as children and he said, "Lay down on the grass and listen to the grass grow!". advisers and press people, flew to Washington for to learn more about Russian history and art. He a summit with Ronald Reagan. came to love his second homeland so much that Sincerely submitted, Mary Pawlak Anderson he began to write in 1909 a comprehensive paper The center piece of that summit was the entitled "The History of Russian Art". signing of a treaty on eliminating intermediate-range nuclear forces, and the ceremony went off in an After the October Revblution, Grabar , An interesting in-depth analYSis of the atmosphere proper to such a great occasion. For directed his efforts towards preserving the valuable climatic events that began in 1985 in the former the fii'sttinie in history, a whole class of nuclear monuments of Russian architecture in his capacity Soviet Union up to the present day. This is the w~apons was eliminated, and this aroused a great as head of the art restoration workshops. In Thirty Fourth installment of the story from Moscow relief and fervent expectations of better things to October 1942, he became director of the AII News. come. The signing ceremony was watched on a Russian Academy of Arts and the Institute of giant TV screen in Kalininsky Prospekt in Moscow Painting. The Crash and Rise of an Empire by a rapt crowd in which the sense of hope was almost palpable. Even on TV, you could see that During World War II Grabar painted several A Colloquial Chronicle, Russia, 1985-. Part 34 the participants enjoyed what they were doing. new pictures and later returned to Leningrad to Ronald Reagan trotted out his 'Nell-worn Russian devote himself to art. He was awarded many Washington Trip: Smiles, Hype joke, doveryay no provef'/ay "trust but verify," for Orders and Banners from the Russian Federation. and Nitty-gritty which Gorbachev teased him.

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