Editor’s note: This is the latest in a Saturday series of stories and photographs featuring local holiday traditions. VINCO, Pa. – Marie Jarabak has fond memories of her grandmother’s Polish Christmas ...

Detroit’s Polish community celebrates Wigilia, a Polish Christmas Eve dinner tradition. It’s a Polish tradition some say is bigger than Christmas Day itself. The Polish Christmas Eve dinner ...

The Polish American Congress of Northeastern Pennsylvania will hold its annual Christmas wafer (Wigilia) dinner at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, December 7 in the Empire Room of the Touch of Class at the Palace, ...

The Polish traditions in my family come from a simpler time. Back in the 1960s, when the post office was still profitable and phone calls to people more than 25 miles away cost at least a dollar a ...

Dozens of people converse during the 13th annual Wigilia hosted by the Wilkes University Polish Room on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (JASON ARDAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) The Wilkes University Polish Room held ...

Keeping watch at the window to spot the first star and preparing a 12-dish supper with one seat empty are two of many customs observed in Poland to this day. Tradition is a significant link between ...

Attending Midnight Mass, making gingerbread houses and using an advent calendar are some of the most popular Christmas traditions in the U.S. In the High Desert, several holiday lovers shared their ...

Wigilia, meaning vigil, is the most anticipated feast of the year for Poles. It’s full of symbolism: the table is traditionally set with an empty space for the ‘unknown guest’ and a nest of hay is ...

Jan. 4—BOSWELL, Pa. — For generations, Polish people with little to call their own kept their culture alive through song. Their Christian "koledy" hymns filled their churches long after their homeland ...

Chicopee - Lodge 711 Polish National Alliance of Chicopee will hold its annual meeting and election of officers on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 11:30 a.m., followed by the Lodge Christmas party with dinner ...