We’re all familiar with the descendants of Eastern European ethnicities that populate Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties — ...

With continuing upheavals in Eastern Europe, most Americans are identifying 1990 as the year Lithuania rebelled and the two Germanies reunited. Few realize, however, that in northeastern ...

Submitted photo.... Mike Vasilchek displays a sign for the Simply Slavic festival in downtown Youngstown. He has become a passionate preservationist of his Carpatho-Rusyn heritage. YOUNGSTOWN — Mike ...

Vested dancers stomped, kicked and knee-bent through a ciceri, accompanied by a legato violin and twangy guitar. Hungry revelers clapped between forkfuls of halusky, a homemade noodle dish, and ...

Christmas caroling is a popular tradition in the anthracite region. Each ethnic group appears to have created a unique twist to the practice of door-to-door singing designed to teach youngsters about ...

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — A motorist slowly driving down the steep Northampton Street hill a few weeks ago rolled down her window and asked a pedestrian how to find the place with the kolachi. It turned out ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - One of the oldest members of the Cleveland Cultural Garden is still installing new pieces more than 80 years later. The Carpatho-Rusyn garden, initially dedicated in 1939, installed ...

To John Righetti, there are few if any more misunderstood ethnic groups than the Carpatho-Rusyns. The group has a sizeable presence in Europe and North America, but use the term in front of almost ...

“We are Slovak!” my grandfather would yell. Emphatically, my father would bellow back, “We are Rusyn!” And so it went, until one of them gave up. Karen Chorba has enjoyed exploring her Slovak and ...