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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. Millions of Ukrainians fled their homes for asylum in the West with the vast majority going to Poland, Germany, and Czechia....
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” and so begins the book, “A Tale of Two Cities”, by Charles Dickens. I think this phrase fittingly describes the current circumstances in which the Ukrainian American community finds itself today...
Overlooking the eastern part of scenic San Francisco Bay are the hills of Hayward, California. In these hills is Garin Regional Park which is part of the East Bay Regional Parks System. ..
My interest in the artistic work of Nicholas Bervinchak is intensely personal. In the mid-1980s, I was flipping through some prints at The Ukrainian Museum gift shop in New York City, when I came across a piece entitled "Buck Run Colliery" (1933). The scene really caught my eye because my Dad grew up in the coal patch in Primrose, P.A., and this looked like a great Christmas gift for him. I didn’t buy the print that day, but the scene was permanently etched into my mind.
Do you know that one of the first Ukrainians to arrive in New Jersey was a Lemko who was a cartwright (wheelmaker) by occupation?..
