The Emigration Museum in Gdynia is one of the most beautiful and most interesting ones in Poland. Of course, one is free to disagree with this opinion. However, it is probably beyond the shadow of a doubt that when it comes to excitement, the Gdynia Museum ranks among the top ones in Poland. For could you imagine a place that is more steeped in longing, the pain of parting or the fear of what awaits us on the other side of the Pond than the walls of the Maritime Station in Gdynia?
Although the Maritime Station was opened in 1933, the Museum itself - the only one dedicated to the fate of Polish emigrants - encompasses with its memory two centuries of the great wandering of our compatriots; the political wandering: The Great Emigration and escapes during the communist era; and the existential wandering, “in quest of bread,” in search of some better place on earth.
The latter probably included ancestors of the members of the ensemble affiliated with the Polish Highlanders Alliance in the USA, who arrived on the American soil in a massive wave of economic emigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Today, the descendants of these emigrants are coming to Nowy Sącz to communicate to the FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS audience with their singing, dancing and playing: “We take the traditions of our ancestors, the authentic culture of the Rocky Podhale very seriously.”
Representing the nearly 100-year-old Highlanders Alliance of North America, the ensemble have prepared, under the direction of Karolina Strzelec-Stafiera, “songs and dances of the Rocky Podhale in the form of an artistic routine, solo dances and zbójnicki.”
The latter probably included ancestors of the members of the ensemble affiliated with the Polish Highlanders Alliance in the USA, who arrived on the American soil in a massive wave of economic emigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Today, the descendants of these emigrants are coming to Nowy Sącz to communicate to the FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS audience with their singing, dancing and playing: “We take the traditions of our ancestors, the authentic culture of the Rocky Podhale very seriously.”
Representing the nearly 100-year-old Highlanders Alliance of North America, the ensemble have prepared, under the direction of Karolina Strzelec-Stafiera, “songs and dances of the Rocky Podhale in the form of an artistic routine, solo dances and zbójnicki.”