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A Polish son in the motherland : an American's journey home /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kniffel, Leonard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2005]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Poland > Description and travel.
Kniffel, Leonard > Travel > Poland.
Table of Contents:
  • Back in the old country
  • Her father's child
  • After the first people in the world
  • The four corners of Sugajno
  • The sign of the cross
  • Mothers and sons
  • Like Grandma in the back seat
  • Last train
  • Chiseled in stone
  • Castles in the air
  • Pieces of change
  • The land they love
  • To market
  • Holy days
  • Followed by water
  • The best days begin in ordinary ways
  • Property
  • The priest and the ledger
  • Temporary blindness
  • All those good-byes
  • The body of Christ
  • At night by the river
  • Dinner with Madame and her son
  • In the dark without the son
  • The underside of a mushroom
  • The hunt for hidden treasure
  • Women dancing in their slips
  • To Grandmother's house we go
  • What used to be Polish
  • Little mysteries unraveling
  • What took you so long?
  • A young man and his needlepoint
  • Pilgrims
  • The Nowe Miasto hillbillies
  • The other side of the family
  • A father and his daughter
  • Waiting
  • The vigil
  • Whether or not it's time
  • The last act
  • Epilogue.