Polish Heritage Club welcomes you!
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

Outreach

Polish Heritage Club members participate in a variety of community service activities. The Club has provided humanitarian assistance donations to charitable organizations in Poland by donating clothing, money for meals to impoverished children, and educational materials to assist in the mastery of the English language.

Members were also active in the annual proclamation of May 3 as Trzeciego Maja Day in Wisconsin and the development of the Polish display at Old World Wisconsin near Eagle, Wisconsin. Members continue to maintain communication and contact with a variety of organizations with similar purposes.

As a Club, members regularly participate in season pledge drives for WHA-TV, Madison's public television station. Members have also assembled a directory of Polish resources and related information for distribution to the community.

Members organize a Madison Public Library exhibit each October to recognize Polish American Heritage Month. Members have presented seminars about Polish topics at schools, senior centers and community centers. The Club also participates in cultural folk festivals and other community events.

OUR Mission:

Acquire and/or spread knowledge about Poland, its culture and history;
Share the Polish-American experience among its members and the wider community;
Enjoy social and cultural opportunities;
Foster a sense of community and cultural identity.

SPECIFIC objectives:

Encourage among Americans, particularly Americans of Polish ancestry, an interest in and knowledge of the Polish as well as American traditions in their cultural heritage.
Join together for social and civic activities sustaining the originality, value and joy of Polish customs and traditions and their compatibility with American history and culture.
Give organized welcome in Wisconsin to artists, scholars, statesmen, writers, musicians and other proponents of Polish-American culture.
Promote understanding and unity among Americans of all ethnic backgrounds.
Advance academic learning and education of our Polish heritage.
Contribute to charitable causes.