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 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 ...

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, ...

Q I moved here a couple of years ago. I heard that you have written about a Polish Christmas before. Will they allow you to run it again? I miss the traditions we had back in Chicago. — JJ, Greenville ...

These (mostly) traditional Polish Christmas cookies are anything but basic! I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, where the ...

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 ...

The Polish American Congress of Northeastern Pennsylvania held its annual Christmas Wigilia the traditional Polish Christmas Dinner Dec. 6 at The Touch of Class, Wilkes-Barre. A short program followed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sister Rose Bartnicki’s petite Polish cookies have long been a hit — perhaps even a source of envy — among some women at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish. Some of the women who share her Polish heritage ...