Щастливый новый рік! Happy New Year!
For my 2024 retrospective, I compensated for a year thin on accomplishments by weaving all sorts of other Pennsylvania Carpatho-Rusyn news into my post, whether I was involved in it or not. This year I won’t artificially pump up my retrospective and will keep it honestly representative of what little progress I feel I made in 2025.
As some of you know, I was focused in 2025 (and still am) on family health issues. Sadly, this situation probably won’t improve. But I did try to keep some of my life on track, and am happy about the notable things I did even though they were few.
Throughout the year, I did keep my Carpatho-Rusyns of Pennsylvania Facebook page well updated with a few of my own posts and many shares of other Carpatho-Rusyn (or PA heritage-related) content, and tried to keep my Carpatho-Rusyns of PA Instagram supplied with interesting images and informative captions, even if I didn’t have a lot of fresh items due to lack of opportunities for travel and research.
In February, an article based on my presentation from an ASEEES panel in 2023 was published in the Lemko Rusyn scholarly journal Річник Руской Бурсы / Rocznik Ruskiej Bursy from Poland, in a special section “Our People at 40.” The panel, all of the presentations of which are included therein, provided thematic reflections on Paul R. Magocsi's groundbreaking book Our People: Carpatho-Rusyns and Their Descendants in North America which first appeared in 1984 and most recently appeared in a 5th edition (2023). My article, “Our Bible of Carpatho-Rusyn American Religious Life,” is online; you can also read the whole section including all the presentations.
