The Association was founded to cultivate, enhance, and promote the understanding of the Polish language, culture, and arts; to project the accurate and true image of the Polish American; to promote more cordial and cooperative relations among the members and the community at large; to be a non-sectarian, non-partisan, and non-sectional organization embracing south-central Pennsylvania.
Tony Topolski and Charles Pliszka the founders.                                                                               Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1975

  

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President’s Message        March, 2009

 Dear Friends and Members,
Hello in early spring. It’s time to put away winter coats, get out into the gardens, get ready for Easter and smell the lilac trees while breathing in the fresh air of this lovely season. With today’s economy and all the negative press and media attention out there, I bet all of us are looking for a diversion and a break from the depressing reality. What a better way to “get away” for a moment without even leaving the immediate area. Please come to our next event and have some fun with friends and feel the closeness of our Polish community. We would love to have you join us.
On April 25th I will be presenting
The making of the “golabki” (stuffed cabbage). Following we will have a nice feast of a golabki & mashed potatoes meal with lots of music and perhaps a taste of a Polish beer. In the last two years we’ve had great pierogi making events, so we decided to move on and learn how to make another Polish dish. I hope to have as much fun as we did in previous years. We need your presence to have a successful evening. If you would like to bring your own golabki to share with us, we will welcome it very much.
I have a short story to share with you now.
Recently, less than a week ago in fact, I reconnected with an old friend whom I met 20 years ago when I first arrived in USA. Her name was Katarzyna.
She was like a mother to me then. I was twenty-three years old, she was in her fifties. Being first generation Polish herself, we connected immediately. She grew up in a Polish family in the coal region. Sadly, her brother was killed in a coal mine at age 29. Her big family remained strongly connected to its roots. Unfortunately, like many immigrant kids, Katarzyna did not carry her Polish language skill into her adult life. She remembered just the basic words. I was truly surprised when she started reciting her prayers in perfect Polish.
The Our Father and Hail Mary poured beautifully from her heart on that day. We both cried in my kitchen as we united in prayer and renewed a bond of friendship. My friend died only 3 days after I “found” her. She was dying, and all I could do was to pray at her bedside in Polish. Maybe it was just my wishful thinking but I had a feeling that she heard me reciting the Rosary.
Last night I met a big group of her Polish relatives that traveled to the viewing in Linglestown. We talked like we had known each other all our lives.
What connected us? Our Polish roots, our heritage, our culture, our faith!
This is why we have an association that maintains these beautiful gifts. What we do and how we do it may seem insignificant at times but…
I choose to hold on to it however, and I invite all of you to do the same.
See you at the next event! Have a Wonderful Easter!
Agata Czopek, president