Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

73 years ago on September 1. 1939, the Germans invaded Poland. Their blitzkrieg, their lightning war, came from the air and the sea and th...

I don't often recommend websites, but I want to share two with you. The first is We Were Children . I recently heard from Alexandra Gib...

I got an email from a friend after my last post. He wanted to know how my father celebrated May 3rd, Polish Constitution Day . Here's ...

In the 50s, when I was a child growing up around Humboldt Park in Chicago, the biggest non-religious holiday was not Halloween or the 4 of J...

I posted a piece recently on this blog about Growing Up Polish American . One of the things I talked about was a series of photos I had once...

April is the month when many of the killings at Katyn Forest took place during World War II. Poles try to remember this every year, and I...

The following article appeared in a special issue of the journal Polish American Studies dedicated to Polish-American poets Phil Boiarski, L...