While December may be more known for nights spent inside by the fire, it's the perfect time in Poland to head outside and frolic under the holiday lights. That's because the country comes to life each ...

Jan. 4—BOSWELL, Pa. — For generations, Polish people with little to call their own kept their culture alive through song. Their Christian "koledy" hymns filled their churches long after their homeland ...

MUNSTER | Sharing sacred Polish Christmas traditions, passed down from generation to generation, brought more than 100 guests to Saturday’s Wigilia meal at the Carmelite Monastery banquet hall.

Dec. 30—NEW LONDON — When family and friends gathered around for dinner every Christmas Eve at Dorothy and John Pickering's Ledyard Street home, they could always count 13 different dishes on their ...

What is a tradition? The dictionary cites it as the transmission of customs and beliefs from generation to generation. It is so difficult today to keep our heritage alive with all the competition from ...

The Polish American Congress (PAC) of Northeastern Pennsylvania is hosting its 39th annual Christmas Wigilia, the traditional Polish Christmas Eve supper, at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, at The Touch of ...

Szopka (shop – kah) means “barn,” a concept introduced in the mid-13th century in Poland by Franciscan missionaries. Visitors to the 14th-annual crèche show at the Knights of Columbus Museum in New ...

KRAKOW, Poland — Baby, it’s cold outside. But a steaming cup of grzaniec galicyjski, Poland’s version of mulled wine, is just the thing to warm up the body and spirit on a frosty December day. Giant ...

ZAGAN, Poland - The sound of Christmas carols gently bounced off of the walls of a modest auditorium in Swietoszow, Poland. The songs, reminiscent of what you'd expect to hear in the U.S., had a ...

There is a tiny Christmas tree on the windowsill above Kateryna's bed. A modest substitute for the one she, her husband and their three children would have had at home in Ukraine. "War, no war, ...