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"The immigrants still live; they live within us."
Patricia A. Krafcik
The Island of Tears/Two Generations Later
The Carpatho-Rusyn American
Issue 2, Summer 1978
The name of the village of Pielgrzymka, called Peregrymka by our
Rusyn grandparents and great-grandparents, has the beautiful meaning of
pilgrimage--a spiritual journey. A pilgrimage is of course a metaphor for
life itself--the passage from birth to death--the human search for growth
and meaning. This website attempts a different kind of journey--a journey
not forward, but backward--to a different time and a different world. We
dedicate this site to our immigrant ancestors from Peregrymka and its neighboring
villages--pilgrims who in their own time, through their unremitting
courage, determination and labor, sought a better life for those who followed.
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