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Spring pussy willows
Polish crocuses
Polish flower wreaths

POLISH EASTER TRADITIONS
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Easter Palms
the most beatiful in Łyse
(Kurpie region)

Polish Easter Palms
undying tradition
Wilno, Lithuania

Easter Eggs
Museum in Gliwice
Upper Silesia

Easter Eggs
Museum in Ciechanowiec
Podlasie Region

Easter Eggs and "Pająki"((spider-like chandeliers)
National Museum
of Ethnography, Warsaw

Easter Food Blessing
in Krasiczyn Castle
Podkarpcie region

Easter Food Blessing
St. Mary's Basilica
Main Square, Kraków

Śmigus Dyngus
Wet Monday
Milówka, Silesia

Śmigus Dyngus
with firefighters
Kazimierz Dolny

Crocuses bloom
on high meadows
in Tatra Mountains

author: IRENA FRACZEK

APPLICATIONS FOR THE PHC SCHOLARSHIP
ARE DUE ON MAY 15, 2024
Visit our scholarship page for details

APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
and here are some literary events to enjoy in April

APRIL10: The UW-Madison Department of German, Nordic and Slavic invites all to a POETRY EVENING featuring Polish poet Jerzy Jarniewicz, promoting his English debut of "Landless Boys," and translator of the book, an award winning poet himself, Piotr Florczyk. Details available HERE...

APRIL 19: With support from the Madison Book Festival, our club hosts a book signing event with Ewa Barczyk, the editor of "Footprints of Polonia: Polish Historical Sites Across North America." The book is written in prose, but it sounds like poetry to the ears of Polish Americans. Details available HERE...

Click on the picture above to downlowd the poster.....

APRIL23: The PHC Book Club meets to discuss "The Bronski House: A Return to the Borderlands," a book that takes readers on a journey to the ancestral home of the exiled poet Zofia Ilinska. The trip stirred up memories of the vanished worlds and inspired "a fascinating and dramatic tale of love and loss on both a personal and national scale." Details available HERE...

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VISIT OUR CALENDAR FOR MORE UPCOMING EVENTS

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2023 PHC Wigilia PHOTO GALLERY

Click on the red title above OR the photo to see pictures from the PHC Wigilia, where we shared OPŁATEK (Christmas wafer), exchanged Christmas wishes, hosted Święty Mikołaj (St. Nicholas) and enjoyed other Polish tradtions.

By popular demand, below are the links to the 2023 program with a variety of information about Polish Wigilia traditions and the recipe for creamy hearing with apples and coriander seeds.

► 2023 Wigilia program ◄

► 2023 Wigilia herring recipe ◄