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Congratulations to our own Ed & Jean McCloskey on their election as Grand Marshals of the 2010 Pulaski Day Parade from the Members of the Polish Police Association of Philadelphia President Frank Somensky 1st Vice President Mike Pahnlick 2nd Vice President Ed McCloskey Executive Secretary Robert Pacan Treasurer Richard Malinowski Recording Secretary Ray Stackhouse Sergeant at Arms Joseph Gorka Directors: Robert Bailey Charles Wszolek Fred Tokarski Chaplain Rev. Leonard Lewandowski Attorney at law George Bannon

PPA Clubhouse, Somerset Street, Philadelphia, PA 19134 P. O. Box 1638, Philadelphia, PA 19114-0481 Tel. 215Â 426 2727

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Pulaski Day Parade

Pulaski Day Observance Program SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2010 77th Annual Pulaski Day Parade in Philadelphia 9:30 a.m. – Polish American Heritage Month Mass

at the Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul 18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, opposite Logan Circle

Ed and Jean McCloskey 2010 Pulaski Day Parade Grand Marshals

10:30 a.m. – Pulaski Tribute Program at the Kopernik Monument,

Torun Triangle across from the Cathedral Basilica.

Pulaski Observance Tribute breakfast reception in Cathedral reception rooms across from Torun Triangle

Parade – Beginning at 12:00 from 20th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Center City. Live Television cove-

rage on WPVI-TV, Channel 6, from 13:00 p.m. to 15:00 p.m., from reviewing stands at 19th and the Parkway

2010 Parade Theme: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Fryderyk Chopin, World Renowned Polish Composer and 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, musician and statesman 2010 Parade Lineup At the head

Pulaski Day Parade Banner

Janosik Polish Folk Dancers St. Josaphat Parish, Manayunk

Polish Arts Club of Trenton, New Jersey,

Grand Marshals and Assistant Grand Marshals Banner saluting U. S. Army, Navy and Air Force

float with St. Cecilia Choir and members of Ferko String Band with music after Chopin

Viva Ball Room Dance and Polish School, Trenton

National Anthems – Irene Darlak

Adam Kowalski Post #1 Polish Legion of American Veterans

Fantazja School

Ogniwo Polish Language School

PKM -Polskie Kółko Międzykolegialne Dancers

Polonia of Camden County with St. Joseph Parish and “Kombinatorzy” Band

Frankford High School Color Guard

The Kosciuszko Foundation, Philadelphia Chapter

Polish National Alliance Group #3106, Cumberland County

Army Junior ROTC Unit

St. Joseph’s Prep Polish Association

PNACumberland County Polonia Choir

Roxborough High School Color Guard

Nazareth Academy students

Sacred Heart parish, Swedesburg, PA:

Army Junior ROTC Unit

Hallahan High School Polish Club

Float to salute Bobby Vinton

Benjamin Franklin High School Color Guard

Villanova Polish Cultural Society

Sloneczniki Children’s Folk Dance Group

Navy Junior RTOC Unit

Polish Society of Penn State University

Philadelphia Fire Department Portrayal of General Pulaski Military Guests

Veterans of Foreign Wars Polish Army Veterans Individual Divisions

Polish American Congress, Eastern Pennsylvania District Leaders and Guests The Jagiellonian Law Society of Philadelphia Polish American Cultural Center Montgomery High School Marching Band

University of Pennsylvania Polish Club

Polish National Alliance Pennsbury High School Marching Band Szymanski-Rywacki Post #546, Chester

St. John Cantius Parish and Pope John Paul II School, Bridesburg neighborhood St. John Cantius Polish Language School Harcerstwo Polskie with a centennial presentation of Polish scounting Polish Beneficial Association

Polish Veterans Post # 104, Chester

Podgorski dance by PBA children

Polish Legion of American Veterans, Baltimore, MD

Polka Deli vintage motorcars Warszawa

Polish American Heritage Association of Delaware County (St. Hedwig Society)

St. Laurentius Parish of Fishtown and Kensington

PNA Lodge 650

Polish Eagles Sports Club

PNA Councils 1, 106, 166 Philadelphia

float with Chopin’s piano

PNA Council 171, Lehigh Valley

National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown

PNA Council 21, Lodge 233, Baltimore, MD

Czestochowa Polish Language School Dance Group

St. Adalbert Parish and School

Shrine Volunteers

Associated Polish Home in Northeast Philadelphia Adam Mularczyk Theatrical Group Adam Mickiewicz Polish Language School Polski Uniwersytet Ludowy Singers from Marcella Sembrich Kochanska Choir #321 PSA Polish Heritage Society of Philadelphia St. Valentine Parish of Frankford

Association since its inception 34 years ago and currently serves as Second Vice President. Jean’s parents, Edmond and Regina (Walczak) Abramczyk lived in South Philadelphia and later moved to the Fishtown area of Philadelphia where they raised their three daughters. Jean attended St. Laurentius grade school and John W. Hallahan Catholic High School. She has been involved in many activities in St. Laurentius Church and School. She is a member of the Polish Police Association and currently is the Chairperson of the Pulaski Dinner Dance. They both have been involved in Polish American activities for over 50 years, including the Pulaski Day Parade.

Ed and Jean are residents of the Fishtown area of Philadelphia and parishioners of St. Laurentius Church.

They are married 51 years and parents of a son and daughter and have three grandchildren.

St. Laurentius school group

Polish Police Association of Philadelphia

PNA Council 205, Bucks County

The Polih American Congress, Eastern Pennsylvania District, is proud to salute Ed and Jean (Abramczyk) McCloskey, Grand Marshals of the 2010 Pulaski Day Parade in Philadelphia. This is the second time that a husband and wife have been selected as Grand Marshals.

The McCloskeys were selected in recognition of their many years of leadership and service to the Polish American community in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Ed’s parents, John and Helen (Sobolesky) McCloskey were from upstate Pennsylvania, Mt. Carmel and Catawissa. They moved to Philadelphia where they raised their two children. Ed attended Holy Name of Jesus grade school and West Catholic High School for Boys. He served in the army and later became a Philadelphia Police Officer for 27 years, and is presently retired. He has been involved with the Polish Police

Float with a wedding presentation

Polish American String Band

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Guest groups:

Polish Roman Catholic Union of America

The Polish Union, U. S. A., WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania

St. Adalbert Senior Club and pilgrimage group

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Polish American Association of South Jersey

Grand Polonaise with all dance groups

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PULASKI DAY GREETINGS TO ALL OUR POLISH-AMERICAN BROTHERS OF THE PHILADELPHIA CARPENTERS UNION

EDWARD CORYELL EXECUTIVE SECRETARY-TREASURER-BUSINESS MANAGER METROPOLITAN REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS OF PHILADELPHIA & VICINITY 1803 SPRING GARDEN STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19130

Pulaski Day 2010 Mayor Nutter’s Greeting Address Polish Americans are an integral part of the City of Philadelphia and the nation. The community has influenced and enhanced the ethnic diversity of our city in many ways. The City of Philadelphia has many ties to Polish Heritage, including the Kosciuszko House at 3rd and Pine Streets, the Kopernik Monument and the Torun Triangle on the Parkway, the Pulaski Monument in the Garden of Heroes on the west side of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Polish American Cultural Center Museum at 308 Walnut Street, and our Sister City association with Torun. Best wishes on the celebration of Polish American Heritage Month during October on the 402 anniversary of the arrival of the first Polish settlers in America on October 1, 1608 at Jamestown, Virginiaq.

Michael Nutter Mayor, City of Philadelphia On behalf of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, please accept my best wishes in honoring Hero of the Revolution and Father of the American Cavalry, General Kazimierz Pulaski.

Congratulations also to Philadelphia’s Polish-American community, who has worked long and hard to make our diverse city even greater as an outpost of Polonia. Enjoy this day of celebrating your proud heritage.

Gary J. Jastrzab Executive Director Philadelphia City Planning Commission

Hello, The Commerce Department of Philadelphia would like to offer our sincere thanks for the continued services to the citizens of Philadelphia provided by Polish American Business Association.

The wonder services, unique goods and local employment benefit all residents of our city. It is the hard working local small busness owners like yourself that have kept the Philadelphia job market performing as well as it has been in these difficult financial times. We can not thank you enought for continuing to make Philadelphia your home. We look forwards to a ever improving market place thanks to your devotion, hard work and desire to build for your childrens future. Let us continue to work together to make this city a true home of freedom for us all. Thank you for being Philadelphians.

Sincerely, Rojer Kern Neighborhood Markets Office of Neighborhood Economic Development Philadelphia Commerce Department

Dear Friends, Congratulations to our friends in the Polish American community from the Sister Cities Program. It is an honor for us to administer the Sister Cities Program and work with the Polish American Congress to support the relationship between Torun and Philadelphia. Educational exchanges are taking the relationship to a new level, and this October Philadelphia students and teachers arrive in Torun to explore the culture and make new friends, after a Torunian group’s visit in October 2009 with Mayor Zaleski.

Student exchanges effectively strengthen relationships and build bridges for cooperation through cultures and generations. Our thanks to the Polish American Cultural Center and Philadelphia’s Swenson Arts and Technology High School for their citizen diplomacy efforts on behalf of the Philadelphia-Torun Sister City relationship.

Nancy Gilboy, President and CEO International Visitors Council of Philadelphia

Dear Friends, The Board of Trustees and staff of the Free Library of Philadelphia would like to extend best wishes to the participants of the 2010 Pulaski Day Parade in Philadelphia and the surrounding community. We would like to invite you to celebrate Pulaski Day with us at the Richmond Branch of the Free Library located at 2987 Almond Street, which is a great resource in the community for learning about Polish history. The Richmond Branch has an extensive collection of Polish literature, and has a tentative date for their Polish American Heritage Day celebration of Thursday, October 28. The branch will be saluting Casimir Pulaski, a November 2009 Congressional recipient of the Honorary Citizen of the United States award (only seven people were so honored).

The Richmond. Branch will have stories and folktales of Poland

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and after-school crafts for children. In the spirit of the day, the branch will have music of Poland played throughout the library during the day as well as a Polish film in the evening. We also invite readers to examine our Polish literature collection in the Parkway Central Children’s Department located at 1901 Vine Street, Ground Floor.

We encourage you to feel free to call the Richmond Branch any time at 215.685.9992, and the Parkway Library Children’s Department at 215 686 5369 for information on all events.

Sincerely, Siobhan A. Reardon President and Director Free Library of Philadelphia Together with the bishops, priests, deacons religious and laity of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia I extend prayerful best wishes to those in attendance at the Annual Pulaski Day Parade.

In observance of Polish American Heritage Month I offer blessings to all people of Polish descent.

Cardinal Justin Rigali Archbishop of Philadelphia

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Seven Honorary Citizens of the United States Sir Winston Churchill (1963)

Raoul Wallenberg (1981)

1st – Sir Winston Churchill, British

Prime Minister, 1963 2nd – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat who rescued Jews in the Holocaust during World War II, 1981 3rd and 4th – William Penn, Governor of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony, and Hannah Callowhill Penn, his second wife and administrator of Pennsylvania, posthumously, 1984 5th – Mother Theresa of Calcutta, an Albanian Roman Catholic nun, foundress of the Missionaries of Charity in India, 1996 6th – General Lafayette, a Frenchman who was an officer in the American Revolutionary War, posthumously, 2002 7th – Casimir Pulaski – a Polish soldier, political figure and a member of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth nobility – who offered his services as a military officer in the American Revolutionary War. General Pulaski gave his life for American freedom when he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Savannah. He is known as the “Father of the American Cavalry,” posthumously, 2009 In 2009, the United States Congress bestowed honorary citizenship on General Casimir Pulaski, making him only the seventh person in the nation’s history to receive this distinction. As the seventh Honorary Citizen of the United States, Casimir Pulaski belongs to a very exclusive club. The honorary citizens are easily recognized names: Two, General Lafayette and General Pulaski, were foreign military officers who fought in the American War of Independence. Two, Mother Teresa and Raoul Wallenberg, were great humanitarians. William Penn and his wife were, of course, the founders of Pennsylvania in colonial times. They were all political figures but no one more revered and venerated in America than Sir Winston Churchill.

His elevation to U.S. Citizenship was the mark of cordial postwar relations between the British and the Americans, who would build a new world order together.

Churchill, Britain’s Prime Minister

William Penn (1984)

and leader during World War II, continues to be a sensational presence.

In 2002, he was voted “the greatest Briton of them all” by a BBC polling station. In the 1960s he was a towering presence, his amazing wartime cabinet room speeches still resounding on both sides of the Atlantic, with his identifiable inflexion: We shall fight on the beaches, we will never surrender. Only the Polish independence-minded postwar London emigration quietly expressed some resigned reservations. A New York Times commentary was that if citizenship is a privilege granted to Churchill, its acceptance is a privilege granted to America.

All those seven stellar names, except Churchill’s, are connected to Philadelphia one way or another and are part and parcel of the city’s topography. One imagines an outdoor night time light show with light beams traveling from the top of the city hall where William Penn’s statue is positioned, to the Pulaski and Lafayette Monuments in Heroes Garden on the Reilly Terrace behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art, back to Callowhill Street, named after Hannah Callowhill – Pennsylvania’s administrator in her husband’s absence – and originally planned as a promenade connecting the seaport on the Delaware to the Penns’ residence on the Schuylkill River… then let the beam go to Calcutta House on Girard Avenue, managed by Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity, and finally to the Arts League, close to Rittenhouse Square, which is a postal address of the Wallenberg Committee of Greater Philadelphia.

Only two of the seven honorary citizens, Sir Winston Churchill and Mother Teresa, were awarded the honor during their lifetime and could actually be issued their documents in person at a congressional ceremony in Washington, D.C. (Churchill was too infirm to attend; the honor was received by his son and grandson).

Raoul Wallenberg’s is a complicated case. The year of his death, 1947, is marked with a question mark. Was he alive at the time when he was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 1981? Khrushchev, head of the USSR, released that non-specific date of death in 1959. That bit of information was contradicted by sec-

Hanna Callowhill-Penn (1984)

Mother Teresa of Calcuta (1996)

ondary evidence provided by former prisoners in the USSR on their return to the West, who reported spotting a foreigner in prison, a Swede, a thirty-year prisoner. (Avraham Shifrin in Israel was receiving reports from former prisoners of forced labor camps).

Members of the Wallenberg family visited Philadelphia in April 1989 as part of the royal entourage of Carl and Sylvia of Sweden on the occasion of the 350th celebration of the Swedish settlement of Delaware and Pennsylvania.

The Wallenberg Committee of Greater Philadelphia quietly continued their work now that they are sure of the family’s support. An old prisoner’s advice was passed on to the family before their projected trip to Moscow: never accept the return of the prisoner’s belongings because this could be interpreted as the closure of the case but demand full disclosure.

The local head of the Committee, Leona T. Feldman, cabled Mikhail Gorbachev in the Kremlin as late as 1988 demanding Wallenberg’ release and sent a cable to President Ronald Reagan at the White House asking him to obtain the same. The position of Wallenberg as an Honorary Citizen made it possible to use the official channels. “He is that orphan of Europe, she argued, abandoned by everybody...Where is he and why was he abandoned by the world? Release Raoul Wallenberg from his unjust imprisonment in the Soviet Union,” she demanded in the name of thousands of followers in the Delaware Valley, some of them undoubtedly rescued by the diplomat of neutral Sweden in Budapest with his protection passes and protective housing. Wallenberg was able to outmaneuver the Nazis and save a hundred thousand Jews in 1944 in Budapest on a rescue mission funded by the U.S. Refugee Board.

As to Lafayette and Pulaski, their importance to this country only grows on us. Unlike Pulaski who died at 34, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, who survived until age 77, had a long and brave life, and a huge following in Philadelphia among the French community, to fete him on his return and leave a record, to rename his battle scene as Lafayette Hill and institute an annual ceremony.

General Lafayette (2002)

Lafayette was concerned with preserving the traces of history. He proved to be Pulaski’s best ally in preserving his memory until the Polish community grew in power and could take over the quest.

This is our 77th parade to honor General Casimir Pulaski. It is the oldest Pulaski Parade in the United States. We continued the vigil since the first parade in 1929, conducted to mark the 150th anniversary of his death on the 10th anniversary of Poland’s regaining its independence.

In 1929, events were scheduled in all major centers of the Polish immigration and had a huge following. As a poet wrote, addressing Pulaski: “Washington and Warsaw conspired to build thy greatness.”

Casimir Pulaski, like General Lafayette, did not receive honorary citizenship of the United States until

Kazimierz Pulaski (2009)

much later after their service but he was revered throughout the 230 years that had elapsed since his fall on October 9, 1779 at the siege of Savannah, Georgia. in full view of the fighting armies.

A loose proposal appeared to study a possibility of inquiring, in the wake of the law conferring Honorary Citizenship upon General Pulaski, about an amnesty for a small group of Pulaski’s compatriots who remained in this country without a permit, upon the expiration of their visas. Let’s call them “Pulaszczaks” or Pulaski’ hundred and start building an argument for their sake and name collecting leading to processing individual cases by proper authorities. Regarding this matter, address me personally: REGINA GORZKOWSKI-ROSSI PRO ARTE ASSOCIATES C/O NOWY DZIENNIK

Public Law 111-94 Joint Resolution proclaiming Casimir Pulaski to be an honorary citizen of the United States posthumously Whereas Casimir Pulaski was a Polish military officer who fought on the side of the American colonists against the British in the American Revolutionary War; Whereas Benjamin Franklin recommended that General George Washington accept Casimir Pulaski as volunteer in the American Cavalry and said that Pulaski was “renowned throughout Europe for the courage and bravery he displayed in defense of his country’s freedom”; Whereas, after arriving in America, Casimir Pulaski wrote to General Washington, “I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it”; Whereas the first military engagement of Casimir Pulaski with the British was on September 11, 1777, at the Battle of Bradywine, and his courageous charge in thi engagement averted a disastrous defeat of the American Cavalry and saved the life of George Washington; Whereas, on September 15, 1777, George Washington elevated Casimir Pulaski to the rank of Brigadier General of the American Cavalry; Whereas Casimir Pulaski formed the Pulaski Cavalry Legion, and in February 1777, at the battle of Brandywine, this legion ejected the British occupiers from Charleston, South Carolina; Whereas, in October 1779, Casimir Pulaski mounted an assault against British forces in Savannah, Georgia, Whereas on the morning of October 91779, Casimir Pulaski was mortally wounded and was taken aboard the American ship SS Wasp, where he died at sea on October 11, 1779; Whereas, before the end of 1779, the Continental Congress resolved that a monument should be erected in honor of Casimir Pulaski; Whereas, in 1825, General Lafayette led the cornerstone for the Casimir Pulaski monument in Savannah, Georgia, and Whereas in 1929, Congress passed a resolution recognizing October 11 of each year as Pulaski Day in the United States; Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Casimir Pulaski is proclaimed to be an honorary citizen of the United States posthumously Approved November 6, 2009

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U. S. Senator Richard Durbin 20th Congressional District, Illinois

U. S. Representative John Conyers 14th District, Michigan

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U. S. Representative Dennis Kucinich 10th District of Ohio

Mathew Lobas, past National Commander Polish Legion of American Veterans, USA, Cleveland, Ohio

Joseph Pudlo, National Commander Polish Legion of American Veterans, USA, Chicago, Illinois

A Gallery of honor of Congressional leaders and National Commanders of Polish Legion of American Veterans, USA, who worked to confer on General Casimir Pulaski the Nation’s Honorary Citizenship posthumously. After the Joint Resolution passed the House, on Nov. 6, 2009, President Barack Obama signed it into law. On Nov. 11, Veterans Day, veterans invited to the White House had an opportunity to thank the President for the speedy execution of the law. On that day Ben Filipczyk, Legislative Officer and the principal lobbyist on behalf of the Polish Legion of American Veterans received the President’s signature on a Xerox copy of Public Law 111-94. Both the President and the First Lady mentioned that they learned of Pulaski thanks to Pulaski Day in Chicago and many school celebrations organized to mark the state holiday.

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Polish Legion of American Veterans in Pulaski Parade Ben Filipczyk, National Legislative Director, Polish Legion of American Veterans, U. S.A. sent a brief note on time line and parties involved for getting the Congressional Pulaski resolution passed.

Foto: White House

In November, 2004, Polish Legion of American Veterans, U. S.A. immediately past National Commander Matt Lobas asked National Legislative Director Ben Filipczyk to complete an unfinished task proposed by the organization – during his administration – to seek the U. S. Congress to proclaim Casimir Pulaski an honorary citizen of the United States posthumously.

Veterans Day at the White House. Ben Filipczyk (second from right)

There are two groups connected with the Polish Legion of American Veterans marching in Philadelphia’s Pulaski Day Parade. They are: Adam Kowalski Post #1 from the Manayunk area of Philadelphia, marching with the St. Josaphat division, and Casimir Pulaski Post #209 of Polish Legion of American Veterans from Baltimore marching with the Polish National Alliance division. They should be specially honored this year. Do you know anything of this fraternal and patriotic organization in our midst?

Regina Gorzkowski-Rossi

Not unlike its contemporary Polish Army Veterans Association, Polish Legion of American Veterans emerged after World War I in response to veterans’ grievous postwar needs. The Constitution of the new organization voiced their dedication to fraternalism and patriotism in support of President Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan and his 14 points and its dedication to preserving Poland’s independence. The most prominent organization was headquartered in Chicago and encompassed the states of Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio. Then it merged with Michigan and New York-New Jersey groups to form a solid power basis under the name of Polish Legion

of American Veterans. It may be remembered that those four states Illinois (1977 and then 1986), Ohio (1984), Wisconsin (1987) and New York (1987) were able to legislate Pulaski Day as permanent holidays.

One keeps wondering what was the role of the Polish Legion of American Veterans in establishing the Pulaski Day in these states.. They certainly have to be credited with attaining single-handedly their goal of honoring Casimir Pulaski with a title of an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

The Baltimore Post has a special link to Casimir Pulaski as it was in Baltimore that after being nominated

by General Washington a brigadier general with a command of all cavalry, Pulaski spent the winter of 1777-

1778. This eventually became a nucleus of his independent Pulaski Legion composed of cavalry and light infantry of foreign volunteers, including 13 Poles. The Legion fought under Pulaski until his final battle at Savannah where the general was mortally wounded on October 9, 1779. The famed legion banner was returned to Baltimore and preserved as a relic. It was sawn and embroidered by Moravian sisters belonging to the Moravian sect residing in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – donated by them in thanks for his special protection at war time or perhaps commissioned by the general? It was willed to the museum of the Maryland Historical Society by the family of its former President. Or was it returned to Poland on regain-

Needing both Senate and House approval in February, 2005 NLD Filipczyk first approached U. S. Representative Dennis Kucinich to draft a resolution, and in March of that year he sponsored and presented the bill for consideration on the house floor.

The bill was then turned over to the House Judiciary sub-Committee on Immigration and Citizenship where it strangely met some opposition and was tabled.

Meanwhile in 2007 past National Commander Joe Pudlo was asked to encourage U. S. Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois to draft a similar resolution of which he did, and (amazingly) it unanimously passed the Senate.

The bill now only awaited House passage and once passed the bill would only need to be turned over to the President for signature and the bill would be official. However, House Congressional action again stalled.

The Senate bill on Pulaski passed again in 2009. The House resolution however continued to stall due to opposi-

ing independence to be kept in the Military Museum in Warsaw until it went up in flame in 1939? It is a story of legend and there is no single documented version. All of them are intriguing and have to be taken with

tion from certain House members who questioned Pulaski’s credibility and worthiness of the honor.

Finally in May, 2009 NLD Filipczyk drafted a petition signed by members from various Polonia organizations to Congressman John Conyers, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee in seeking immediate action.

In June, 2009 a meeting took place between NLD Filipczyk and Congressman Conyers who graciously agreed to co-sponsor the resolution and, in turn, agreed to do what he could to move the resolution beyond Committee for House passage. Within a few short weeks the resolution passed the House.

In turn, the joined resolution only awaited presidential signature.

On November 6, 2009 President Barack Obama signed the joint resolution into law. Under Public Law 11194, Casimir Pulaski became the first Pole and only the seventh in history awarded honorary United States citizenship posthumously.

It is hereby recommended the Polonia acknowledge three member of Congress: U. S. Senator Richard Durbin (IL), U. S, Representatives John Conyers (MI), Dennis Kucinich (OH) and two Polish Legion of American Veterans, USA member: Past National Commanders Mathew Lobas of Cleveland, OH and Joseph Pudlo of Chicago, IL for this achievement.

a grain of salt but keep on preserving Pulaski’s link to Baltimore, and that accounts perhaps for PLAV’s Pulaski Post #209 of Baltimore repeated appearance at Pulaski Day Parade in Philadelphia. n

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In memory of Wojciech Seweryn, sculptor of Pulaski Monument in Niles Cemetery, Chicago

Mr. Szuch’s “Pulaskiana”

n Mr. John Szuch, an Ohio man and a collector of American “pulaskiana” acquired and enormous collection over fifty years on the road. He started exhibiting parts of hi collection (Chicago 1997). In 1996, he announced his book project, contemplating publishing a pictorial guide to his memorabilia.

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It was his grandfather who started him on collecting in the 1940s with his gift of aq calendar from a local bakery and his grandmother, who came to the States in 1912, recounted him Pulaski’s story. As a student of John Carroll University in Parma he organized a Polish student club with a Pulaski bulletin board in the library for the displays on the culture and history of Poland. The students started a wreath-laying ceremony as an annual tribute to Pulaski and solicited Senator Edmund Muskie’s help in renaming one of Parma’s sites as Pulaski Park. In 1963, he was discharged from the army and settled in Ohio.

As a sales representative from Seville, Ohio, he has been traveling across the country collecting anything featuring Pulaski name on it: postcards and stamps, photographs, envelopes, advertisement and commemorative brochures, pins, medals and prints; business letterheads, and products: Pulaski salami packages, Pulaski gorki, Pulaski cigars; and miscellaneous memorabilia: police patches, basketball jersey, beer cans, you name it.

In 1999 Mr. Szuch admitted to an editor ot the “Southwest Virginia Times” in Pulaski that he visited almost all 40 Pulaski towns and counties across the country, with a few more places to go further west, in Wisconsin and Iowa. Looking for his materials, he visited local newspapers, libraries and clubs, realizing only later that he started on a lifelong Providence, Rhode Island mission of promoting Pulaski.

Our request for a listing of Pulaski His small services, growing out of his knowledge, are many. He monuments in America in his phohelped Pulaski County to attribute a tographic collection brought a list of painting in the courtyard lobby as a 125 items. The number is some 50 copy of Jacob Rys’ oil painting from items ahead of the figure projected the portrait gallery in the Second Bank by Professor Tadeusz Lapinski of of the United States in Philadelphia. Maryland during the Warka conferHe helped the public become ence in October 1987. To Mr. Szuch’s aware of Pulaski’s corrected birth date and my knowledge, no one so far with his personal story of getting itemized and published the entire ready for Pulaski’s 250th anniversary legacy of 225 years of Pulaski mononly to miss it by two years. He won- uments. dered how the error had crept in since everybody got right March 4 as How they all came about, 1779-1979 Pulaski’s birthday. Only Utica had Pulaski’s Savannah Monument had the right year, 1745, on its Pulaski is his most evocative monument Monument from the very beginning. because of its proximity to the place Was it because they did not know any of his fall and death. Savannah better? Or upheld the right to their resolved to erect the monument in own mistakes?

1779 and the idea was acted upon durMr. Szuch is still on the road with ing Lafayette’s visit in 1825 when his thick scrapbook under his arm, the cornerstone was laid in Chippawa seeking recognition for Pulaski. He (now Johnson) Square to be transalready got acknowledgement for ferred in 1853 to its present location himself from The Pulaski Museum in Monterey Square. Two Polish in Warka and won our cooperation, immigrants were connected with this

project: Robert Launitz who designed the monument and Henryk Dmochowski-Saunders who sculpted the base panel relief.

In Philadelphia, the concept of creating monuments to foreign general of the Revolutionary War emerged in 1890 thanks to the trust fund of General William M. Reilly’s of the Pennsylvania National Guard that had matured in 1938. The sculpture of Pulaski was erected in 1947 and adopted by the American Legion as the site of wreath laying – the tradition continued by the Pulaski Day Parade Committee as part of the day’s celebrations till 1999.

In 1903, Polish National Alliance embarked on the coordinated campaign to erect monuments to Pulaski and Kosciuszko in the capital city of the United States. The PNA convinced the Congress to renew the dormant bill (dated 1779) by a conditional offer of erecting a Kosciuszko statue in Washington. It taxed its

membership for the expense at a rate of 5 cents a month.

The Monuments were unveiled on May 11, 1910, and the National Museum in Warsaw has a complete set of press cuttings concerning this effort.

The Pulaski Monument in Northampton, Massachussets, 1926 (granite stone in Szuch’s list) was erected a part of the splendid 150th anniversary observances, reported in the “Polonia” magazine, an organ of the Polish American Chamber of Commerce in New York.

The early 1930s produced a monument in Utica, N.Y. (the one with the correct birth date) dedicated in October, 1930, and the one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sculpted by Joseph Kisielewski, it was dedicated next year, in October 1931.

An equestrian monument in Manchester, N.H., dated back to 1937 and was sculpted by Lucien Hippolyte Gosselin at a WPA Federal Art Project.

The City of Wyandotte in Michigan dedicated its Xavery Dunikowski’s statue of Pulaski on October 16, 1938. Its plaster model was exhibited in New York in 1939 and is now in the Casimir Pulaski Museum in Warka.

Pulaski’ first postwar monuments were erected in Providence, R.I., and Schenectady in 1953.

Providence boasts of an equestrian statue cast in bronze in Verona, Italy. Schenectady has a Pulaski Monument, by Orazio Marselli, assisted in his work by Angelo Bardelli. It was dedicated on Poland’s National Holiday, November 11, 1953.

Detroit, Michigan, proudly bears a fine Pulaski Monument by Hungarian-born sculptor Ferenc Varga. Project designer was Bruno Nowicki. The statue was dedicated on April 9, 1966 as part of Poland/s Thousand Years of Christianity observances.

America’s Bicentennial was marked with two Pulaski Monuments.

The monument in Hartford, Conn., by sculptor Granville W. Carter and architect Edward P. Thaxter, was dedicated with some delay, in 1979, as the bicentennial gift “from the people of Poland to the people of the United States of America” and was sculpted by Kazimierz Danielewicz.

Its counterpart, Kosciuszko Monument, by Konieczny, was offered to Philadelphia. n

Pulaski Memorials Visited and Photographed

by John F. Szuch

Code to listing 1 – equestrian statue, 2 – statue, 3 –bust, 4 – mounted bronze plaque, 4A – bronze plaque with wording only, 5 – memorial plaque with depiction, 6 – memorial stone with wording only, 7 –historical marker, 8 – painting, 9 –stained or etched glass window. NLE – no longer exists.

ARKANSAS: Little Rock, 3, 7, 8, 8 COLORADO: Denver 5 CONNECTICUT Hartford 1, 8; Meriden 4; Naugatuck 5; New Britain 4; Stamford 4A GEORGIA Savannah 5, 7, 7, 8, 8. 8.

8. 8 ILLINOIS Chicago 3, 8, 8. Mt. Pulaski 3; Willow Springs 6 KENTUCKY Ft. Knox 8; Somerset 7, 7, 7 MARYLAND Baltimore 4, 8 MASSACHUSETTS Boston 4; Chelsea 5; Dorchester 3; Dracut 6, Easthampton 6; Marblehead 6; New Bedford 4, 4, 8, 8, 8, 8; Northampton 5; Salem 7 NLE MICHIGAN Detroit 2; Grand Rapids 3, 5; Hamtramck 8; Saginaw 8; Wyandotte 2 MISSOURI St. Louis 3; Waynesville 7 NEBRASCA Omaha 6 NEW HAMPSHIRE Manchester 1 NEW JERSEY Pulaski Skyway 4; Bayonne 4, 4. *Camden 3 (relocated to Pennsuken. NJ) 3; Patterson 3, 3; Tuckerton (Egg Harbor) 6; Wallington 3 NEW YORK Bronx 6 9;NLE stolen in 1976; Buffalo 2, 6, 8; Elmira 4.

4; FIoral Park. Long Island 6; Hyde Park , FDR Library 8; New York City 8; Poughkeepsie 3; Pulaski 6, 8; Rochester 4; Schenectady 2; Staten Island 6; Syracuse 6, Utica 2 OHIO Acron 6; Cleveland 4, 6, 8. 8 PENNSYLVANIA Bethlehem 6, 7, 8; Bermingham 6, 6; Brandywine Staqte Pak 7; Erie 6; Farrell 6 NLE torn down and plaque relocated; Harrisburg 3; Philadelphia 2, 8, 8, 8; Pulaski Township 6; Scranton 5; Valley Forge – name in arch, 4A (floor plaque); Warrick Township, Bucks County, Moland House 4A; York 2 weather vanes, little general, original in museum, copy atop the reconstructed Colonial Court House RHODE ISLAND Providence 1; Woonsocket 5 TENNESSEE Pulaski 8 TEXAS Pulaski 6 VEGINIA Pulaski 7, 8, 9 WISCONSIN Cudahay 3; Milwaukee 2, 3; Pulaski 3. 3; Stevens Point 3 WASHINGTON DC 1, 3 The compiler of this list would love to hear from anyone who knows of a Pulaski memorial I have not included in this list. pulaskipro@aol.com or 330 769 4603

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History of Pulaski Park Revitalization

Pro Arte Associates (non-profit) got interested in rescuing Pulaski Park after discovering, in 2000, an abandoned unnamed river park in the Port Richmond neighborhood on the wrong side of I-95. In May 2002, the office of Councilwomen Krajewski was petitioned to restore its name sign; 820 people signed the petition. In June, 2002, Barbara McCabe, a coordinator for the Recreation Department, suggested it might help to form a Friends of Pulaski Park group.

IN 2004, the Nowy Dziennik Polish Daily News publicized an imaginative concept design for a Memorial Park based on consultation with the Polish section of the neighborhood. It embraced an expanded area between the Monkiewicz Playground and the Delaware River. At the same time Pro Arte attempted to form an advisory group from among architects of Polish descent active in our area to help saveguard the park in the interest of the neighborhood and its Polish commercial corridor.

In October, Pro Arte brought forth a popular book on the park’s patron, “For Your Freedom and Ours,” by Antoni Lenkiewicz.

IN 2006, Pulaski officially joined the city-wide cleanup day “Spring into Your Park” conducted since 2005 with the help of Polish scouting. That year the Department of Recreation assigned a Seasonal Maintenance Assistant for Pulaski. In 2006, the Polish American Business Association was organized around an idea of improving the aesthetic of Port Richmond’s business corridor and cooperating with the city of Philadelphia on the revitalization of the neighborhood. PABA supported and actively participated in the park events.

With a new and impressive name sign in place (by Warren Holzman, late 2005), the 2006 summer season was the park’s inauguration and opened with an avant-garde Polish opera film, with English subtitles, produced by Lech Majewski.

POZDRAWIAMY WSZYSTKICH UCZESTNIKÓW

PARADY 2010 W HOŁDZIE GENERAŁOWI PUŁASKIEMU WIELKIEJ MANIFESTACJI DUMY Z NASZEGO DZIEDZICTWA KULTUROWEGO. ZAPRASZAMY DO NASZEGO SKLEPU NA TRADYCYJNE POLSKIE ZAKUPY

REGINA GORZKOWSKI-ROSSI, FRIENDS OF PULASKI PARK LEADER

Foto: Regina Gorzkowski-Rossi

IN 2007, Friends of Pulaski Park initiated the Fishing Tournament and picnic as an annual event at Pulaski.

It proved an immediate hit with the fishing community and this year, thanks to First Person Arts, it was in-

troduced into their summer programs and publicized in their newsletter. In 2009 we held the first sculpting lesson for youth and built “Guardian of the Park” driftwood sculpture.

The three-year work of PennPraxis on the seven-mile Central Delaware Riverfront, from Oregon to Allegheny, from Pulaski to Penn Treaty Park and Penn’s Landing, popularized its patron (made US Honorary Citizen, Nov.6, 2009) and gave a new boost to the park. Friends of Pulaski Park were part of the entire effort and participated step by step in the community-based process led

by Dr. Harris Steinberg, mobilizing the entire Port Richmond behind the plan. We participated in PHS’s wetland conference concentrating on Pulaski Park (April, 2008) and continued to participate in the work of the Parks’ Steering Committee meeting monthly at PHA headquarters, 100 N. 20th St., Philadelphia. PA 19130.

The two city trails, the Central Delaware and the Northern one converge on Pulaski Park and Port Richmond has high hopes for our piece of the riverfront under development.

While Friends of Pulaski watch the building of the Master plan for the Delaware Riverfront we help the city with current maintenance. A neigborhood group, section of the Friends of Pulaski Park, spending more time in the park to earn them a popular name of “a garden club” did a lot through their volunteer effort.

They replaced trash barrels with four quality trash containers up to the city standards. Pawel Ostrowski, a recipient of the 2008 Pulaski Park Volunteer award, built three temporary benches to encourage walkers and joggers to use the park. Dry branches were trimmed and the park looks much better except for the tree and shrub area along the channel which was lost during the construction of the angler-proof fencing.

The park has received much good publicity after a popular DJ Joseph Narodowski brought a group congregating around the Polish Eagles Sports Club to the friends’ last picnic on August 28, 2010. Thank you all Pulaski Park friends and supporters in the City Hall and Philadelphia Horticultural Society.

A group of park supporters around DJ Narodowki and Sports Club President Jan Dzieniszewski

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Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland for Western Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh

Dr. Jan Napoleon Saykiewicz and his Wife salute the participants of Pulaski Day Parade in Philadelphia and General Pulaski Memorial Parade on Manhattan, New York City to commemorate the great Polish American hero

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Na trasie parady Dnia Pułaskiego Tego roku 77. Parada Dnia Pułaskiego ma temat muzyczny i nawiązuje do obchodów Roku Chopinowskiego w 200-lecie urodzin wielkiego kompozytora i do 150-lecia urodzin Ignacego J. Paderewskiego – muzyka i męża stanu, który odwiedził parokrotnie filadelfijską Polonię – w 1918 z związku z rekrutacją do polskiego wojska i z powrotem w 1923 z orderami dla zasłużonych filadelfijczyków. Zapis w archiwum Filadelfijskiej Orkiestry w Filadelfii poświadcza, że Paderewski miał recital w 1922. Temat muzyczny, bardzo trudny do przeprowadzenia w warunkach parady, wywołał ogromny entuzjazm, i jest równie niekonwencjonalny jak inne świetne pomysły obchodów zasługujące na wymienienie.

Weźmy na przykład inscenizację na Krakowskim Przedmieściu w Warszawie sceny, jak ją zapamiętał i wspominał na wygnaniu w Paryżu kompozytor z muzyką walców na fortepianie wybiegającą zza białych firanek ze wszystkich okien. Albo propozycja żaglowca “Daru Młodzieży” odbycia rejsu śladami podróży Chopina z roku 1848 z Orkiestrą Symfoniczną Polskiego Radia na pokładzie. Filadelfijską paradę otworzy rydwan z fortepianem, a potem będą inne rydwany, grupy chóralne i taneczne i inscenizacje szkolne. W sumie dwadzieścia parę prezentacji podczas dwugodzinnej parady, przekazywanych na żywo dla widzów kanału 6 TV usadowionych przed ekranami telewizorów.

Temat parady zachęca, a może nawet zobowiązuje do szerokiego uczestnictwa. Wraz z organizatorem parady – Kongresem Polonii Amerykańskiej, Odziałem na wschodnią Pensylwanię – zapraszamy wszystkich na demonstrację kultury polskiej, jak ją rozumiemy, w śródmieściu Filadelfii i świetną zabawę.

W naszym miniprzewodniku doczepionym poniżej sygnalizujemy polonica na trasie parady: dwa monumentalne malowidła w kościele Il Gesu oraz trzy pomniki – co mówię – z posągiem św. Jadwigi ustawionym ostatnio są to już cztery pomniki, w jakie filadelfijska Polonia wyposażyła Benjamin Franklin Parkway – trasę parady. Dodajmy do tego wartą odwiedzenia tablicę historyczną dla inżyniera Franka Piaseckiego, polskiego twórcy helikoptera, ulokowaną na tyłach Free Library.

REGINA GORZKOWSKA-ROSSI

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

Klasycystyczny gmach Muzeum zamyka perspektywę Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Gmach zbudowano w latach 1910-1920, przenosząc tu w 1928 roku zbiory gromadzone od 1876 w Memorial Hall w Fairmount Park. Dwieście galerii mieści zbiory sztuki światowej, liczące ok. pół miliona eksponatów. Muzeum posiada kolekcję zbroi i meble sekty shakers oraz skrzydło ze sztuką amerykańską. Na odwiedzenie zasługuje również niedawno przebudowany Zachodni Taras Muzeum, obejmujący dwa ogrody z wystawą rzeźby, położone na dachu nowego podziemnego parkingu, taras Reilly’ego z pomnikami obcokrajowych generałów – bohaterów Rewolucji Amerykańskiej – w tym pomnik gen.

Pułaskiego – bajeczny ogród azalii i klu-

ła polskiej sztuki narodowej: “Regina Poloniae” (1883) Jana Styki oraz “Ukrzyżowanie” (1888) Wojciecha Piechowskiego trafiły tu po Światowej Ekspozycji Kolumbijskiej w Chicago z 1893 roku i są z tego samego okresu i tej samej wagi dla naszej kultury, co wystawiane w gmachu Perelmanów odrestaurowane obrazy Thomasa Eakinsa. Rozpoczęto rozmowy na temat zabezpieczenia polskiego malarstwa przechowywanego w klimatycznie nieodpowiednich warunkach w nieczynnym kościele używanym periodycznie jako aula St. Joseph Preparatory School. Po pierwotnej analizie konserwatorskiej dr Joanny Czernichowskiej w maju 2008 na koszt Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego właściciel odebrał dwie propozycje konserwacji z wyceną kosztów odłączenia obrazów od ścian (dekorator kościelny przykleił je do muru w roku 1922) i dalszej konserwacji: w listopadzie 2009 od pracowni konserwatorskiej Anety Zębali z Kalifornii oraz z początkiem bieżącego roku Joanny Pietruszewskiej z Princeton, New Jersey.

KATEDRA ŚW.ŚW. PIOTRA I PAWŁA

Główna świątynia rzymskokatolickiej archidiecezji filadelfijskiej, obejmującej 269 parafii i liczącej blisko 1,5 miliona wiernych, zbudowana w stylu neoromańskim w latach 1846-1864. W podziemnej krypcie spoczywają prochy Jana Króla, arcybiskupa Filadelfii w latach 19611988. Wśród innych zasług przyczynił się on do powstania Polonijnego Ośrodka Kulturalnego na Walnut Street, oddając na przedpłatę dochód z jubileuszowego bankietu. Przekazał też do ośrodka swoje zbiory książkowe w języku polskim, które wymagają skatalogowania.

POMNIK KOPERNIKA W TRÓJKĄCIE TORUŃSKIM

by wioślarskie, zabytkowa stacja starych wodociągów, widokowa altana, a trochę dalej wzgórze Lemon Hill z rezydencją na szczycie. Muzeum planuje odzyskanie na wystawiennictwo podziemi głównego gmachu, gdzie się obecnie mieszczą magazyny i być może kiedyś dojdzie do realizacji podziemnego połączenia z nową placówką po przeciwnej stronie Pennsylvania Avenue.

RUTH AND RAYMOND G. PERELMAN BUILDING

Aneks PMA – osiągnięcie z końca dyrekcji Anne d’Harnoncourt – stanowi potężne zaplecze konserwacyjno-studyjne dla muzeum. Mieści pięć galerii prezentujących wyspecjalizowane zbiory rzeźby, fotografiki, sztuki dekoracyjne i modę, bibliotekę i archiwum oraz centrum edukacyjne. Architekci Gluckman Mayner dobudowali na tyłach stylowej budowli art deco (wzniesionej w 1927 na siedzibę Fidelity Mutual Life) osobny 2piętrowy bezokienny blok na pomieszczenie galerii, tworząc w prześwicie pomiędzy dwiema budowlami monumentalną galerię dla rzeźby.

POMNIK GENERAŁA PUŁASKIEGO

Dzieło rzeźbiarza Sydneya Waugh z 1947, położone w Ogrodzie Bohaterów na tyłach Filadelfijskiego Muzeum Sztuki, zyskało ostatnio większą ekspozycję w efekcie przekształcenia (w celu zamaskowania nowego garażu) terenu zachodniego zbocza spadającego w kierunku Fairmount Park i Schuylkill River.

Poprzednio pod pomnik dochodziła w Dniu Pułaskiego odnoga głównej parady, nazywana małą paradą, dla złożenia

pod nim wieńca zanim skrócono trasę parady po stracie kościoła św. Jadwigi, w którym odprawiano msze dziedzictwa i gdzie podawano śniadanie dla wszystkich uczestników parady. Centrum parady przesunęło się obecnie na Logan Circle i msza odprawiana jest w bazylice katedralnej.

STATUA ŚW. JADWIGI

W związku z budową Wine Street Expressway i przesiedleniem w 1956 polskiej parafii założonej w 1907 w głąb dzielnicy Fairmount i budową dla niej nowego kościoła na 24th i Brown Streets architekt Janik zamówił w pracowni włoskiej marmurową statuę patronki kościoła Jadwigi Śląskiej, mistyczki i wizjonerki, która wiedziała z góry, że straci syna w bitwie pod Legnicą 1241 roku, obecnie patronki Europy. Planowana jako zwieńczenie wieży nowego polskiego kościoła statua została ostatecznie ustawiona na postumencie przed wejściem, zharmonizowana z główną fasadą. W lipcu tego roku, uratowana z masy rozbiórkowej przez firmę Provenance Roberta Beaty, stanęła w klasztornym ogrodzie kościoła St. Francis Xavier Oratory (architekt Edwin Forrest Durang), wychodzącym na Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Powrót statuy jest osiągnięciem byłych parafian, którzy dołączyli do św. Franciszka Ksawerego po likwidacji i wyburzeniu ich kościoła. W boczną ścianę kościoła wmurowano kamień węgielny b. kościoła św. Jadwigi. Obraz patronki wymalowany przez proboszcza k. Franciszka Trawniczka dla pierwszego kościoła i polski witraż, własność Pro Arte Associates, nadal poszukują swojego miejsca.

INSTYTUT BENJAMINA FRANKLINA

Budowla-pomnik, poświęcony pamięci Franklina, odpowiednik prezydenckich “memorials” na błoniach waszyngtońskich oraz muzeum techniki. Staraniem Edwarda Piszka, właściciela Mrs. Paul’s Kitchen, pokazano tu w 1973 r. zestaw przyborów obserwacyjnych Kopernika, wypożyczony ze zbiorów Collegium Maius z Krakowa.

TABLICA HISTORYCZNA DLA INŻ. FRANKA N. PIASECKIEGO

Towarzystwo Polskiego Dziedzictwa przy poparciu licznych organizacji i rodziny inżyniera-wynalazcy Franka N. Piaseckiego (1918-2008) doprowadziło do ustawienia pamiątkowej tablicy na Callowhill Street w miejscu, gdzie znajdował się pierwszy zakład pioniera awiacji lotu pionowego, polskiego twórcy helikoptera.

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

Najstarsze muzeum przyrodnicze w USA. Tu zmontowano pierwszy szkielet dinozaura. Przygodowe programy dla młodzieży jako wprowadzenie do analizy naukowej. Muzeum udostępniało audytorium na debaty nad kształtem Delaware Riverfront – wielkim projektem Filadelfii, dorównującym zakładaniu Benjamin Franklin Parkway w latach dwudziestych XX wieku. Muzeum ściągało w różnych okresach praktykantów z Polski.

KOŚCIÓŁ IL GESU

Zasłonięty przez wysokościowce od północy piękny neobarokowy kościół jezuicki (arch. Edwin Forrest Durang) kryje pozostające tu od ponad stu lat dwa muzealnej wartości polskie obrazy. Arcydzie-

Podkreśla związek siostrzanych miast, Filadelfii i Torunia. Nowoczesny pomnik Kopernika (rzeźbiarz Dudley Talcott) zbudowała w roku 1973 na skwerze miejskim z boku katedry w 500-lecie urodzin astronoma filadelfijska Polonia z inicjatywy Towarzystwa Polskiego Dziedzictwa Filadelfii. Zadrzewiony placyk na wprost katedry nosi nazwę Sister Cities Square. Stąd żałobnicy oglądali w lutym 2008 lot dwuwirnikowych helikopterów Chinook w szyku honorowym na pożegnanie konstruktora Franka N. Piaseckiego po mszy w katedrze św.św. Piotra i Pawła.

POMNIK KOŚCIUSZKI

Późny sukces pubic relations PRL. Ofiarowany w 1976 r. za pośrednictwem ambasadora Richarda Davisa jako “dar narodu polskiego dla narodu amerykańskiego” w 200-lecie powstania USA. Odsłonięcie pomnika stało się okazją do demonstracji anty-PRL-owskiej przez niepodległościową Polonię. Ambasador Romuald Spasowski, który pomnik odsłonił, wkrótce poprosił o azyl polityczny, a Filadelfia witała emigrantów Solidarności.

RATUSZ MIEJSKI

Usytuowany przy 15 Ulicy w centrum XIX-wiecznej Filadelfii. Udany przyklad architektury w stylu II Cesarstwa. Laserową konserwację gigantycznych rzeźb orłów, Indian i pielgrzymów Aleksandra Milne Caldera na wieży zegarowej przeprowadził w latach 20042007Andrzej Dajnowski, właściciel firmy Conservation of Sculpture and Objects Studio w Chicago, przewodniczący Stowarzyszenia Paderewskiego, wspomagającego Polskie Muzeum w Ameryce w Chicago.

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B & O Beer Distributor 4731 N. Front Street, Philadelphia, PA 19120

215.324.8211

róg Roosevelt Blvd. i Rising Sun Avenue

Największy wybór najlepszych polskich piw: EB, Piast, Leżajsk, Łomża, Okocim, Perła, Warka, Żywiec Duży asortyment piw europejskich: Złoty Bażant (słowackie), Baltika (rosyjskie), Zhiguly, Kanapolis (litewskie), Slavutych i Lwiskie (ukraińskie)

Gwarantujemy

najniższe ceny!

Włączając się do parady w hołdzie dla Generała Pułaskiego wielkiego Polaka i honorowego obywatela Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki pozdrawiamy polskich sportowców

W ho∏dzie Gen. Kazimierzowi Pu∏askiemu i z pozdrowieniami wszystkim uczestnikom Parady Dnia Pu∏askiego 2008 r w 400 - letnià rocznic´ przybycia pierwszych Polaków do Ameryki.

SUPER Delikatesy, Inc. 2625 East Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19134

Tel.: 215.291.4224

SUPER Delikatesy 1051 Brunswick Ave., Lawrenceville, N. J. 08648

Tel.: 609.396.6700

SUPER Meat Products 2030 N. Feltus Street, South Amboy, N. J. 08879

Tel.: 732.525.0666

Maria Werner-Wąsik, M.D. Profesor Radioterapeuta Onkolog Specjalista od raka płuca i nowotworów mózgu

Klub Sportowy Polski Orzeł

Polish Eagles Sports Club Jan Dzieniszewski – prezes Jerzy Maciejewski – wiceprezes Maria Ladzinski – skarbnik Maria Mordula – hostessa Marek Pomykala – sekretarz protokołowy

3157 East Thompson Street Port Richmond - Philadelphia Tel. 215.423.0800

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology

111 South 11th Street Philadelphia, PA 19107

Tel.: 215 955 7679 Fax: 215.955.0412

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RAKUS MARKET

Największy pol ski su permarket na Wschodnim Wybrzeżu US A

działający na polskim rynku od roku 1987

Rodzina Gardyasz wraz z Personelem życzy Przyjaciołom i Klientom wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji Dnia Pułaskiego.

Serdecznie dziękując naszym Klientom zapraszamy wszystkich na zakupy!

Restauracja

Staropolska

- wszystkie wyroby wędliniarskie i garmażeryjne są własnego wyrobu Doskonała polska kuchnia - najlepszy bigos, gołąbki, pierogi, sałatka jarzynowa Do posiłków polskie piwo i inne wyroby garmażeryjne Dania i piwo również w sprzedaży na wynos.

- duży wybór śledzi i innych ryb Prosimy dzwonić z większym zamówieniem - świeże mięso - polskie pieczywo i ciasta - najlepszy wybór polskich towarów importowanych - polskie karty okolicznościowe, polska prasa, muzyczne płyty kompaktowe - kolędy - polskie filmy na DVD - upominki - kosmetyki, leki i produkty ziołowe - karty telefoniczne Przyjmujemy wszystkie karty kredytowe. Przy sprzedaży wysyłkowej - zamówienia faksem.

3150 Richmond Street Dzielnica Port Richmond, Philadelphia, PA 19134

Tel.:. 215.426.4336 FAX: 215.739.2023

www.krakusmarket.com E-mail: krakusmarket@gmail.com

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