March 6, 2024 | History, Tours
Honest Destinations: Babyn
I am starting a new section of the blog: Honest Destinations.All the experiences we included in our Ukraine heritage tours before the war and those......
Tag Archive: hutsuls
January 15, 2024 | History, Interview Project, video
Grandfather’s Stories in a Ukrainian Village
Talking to Oleksa felt like talking to the Grandfather. Experiencing the life of Oleksa and his wife Olya was like getting back in time when......
April 1, 2021 | video
Kosmach Pysanka
It is not easy to have a fresh look at the tradition of painting pysankas because it so popular! We’re seeing the photos of so......
June 8, 2020 | History
Pentecost in a Rich and a Poor Family
In this post, I would like to present a first-person narration about the real events on Green Holiday (Holy Trinity Holiday or Pentecost) in the......
March 31, 2020 | History
12 Facts about Godparents
Who are the people we find in the column titled “Patrini” when we research birth records? How are they related to the family we are......
November 5, 2019 | History
The Exotic Medicine of Our Ancestors
Today we will learn about some extraordinary methods that our ancestors used to cope with their diseases, at times when there were no doctors around......
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