The Lemkos of southeast Poland first began migrating to Coal Country in northeast Pennsylvania in the 1870’s in search of a better life.  What they often found there was grinding poverty even…

Most of you have heard of the Ukrainian National Association, (the UNA). After all, it operates Soyuzivka; it publishes the Ukrainian language newspaper “Svoboda” and the English language “The Ukrainian…

by Dr. Myron B. Kuropas Prior to 1914, few emigres from Ukraine called themselves “Ukrainians.” During the first 20 years of immigration, they generally identified with a particular region in…