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Post by Jaga on Nov 25, 2005 12:42:41 GMT -7
I would like to include it as a part of the article
In the USA there is no Villages - everything is a city, town or settlement....
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Post by Jaga on Nov 25, 2005 12:45:18 GMT -7
Poland is very rural. Until middle 60-es more people lived in villagers than in the town. Also Polish farming was not completely communized.
Here is a fragment from one of the most recent e-mails I received from one of the readers:
Anyway, I visited Poland for the 1st time 4 years ago. I took the train between cities and was amazed how rural the area was. I saw "Babcia" and "JaJa" walking behind the plow and horse, like I remember my grandparents doing so when I was a child in Massachusetts.
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Post by Yanc on Nov 25, 2005 13:39:16 GMT -7
rural the area was. I saw "Babcia" and "JaJa" walking behind the plow and horse, like I remember my grandparents doing so when I was a child in Massachusetts. [/I] [/quote] That must have been an eastern Poland. We here in the West use tractors+plows. Even some of John Deere equipment. As for photos, I can get some, but it will be on Monday, is it ok for you? Yanc
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Post by Jaga on Nov 25, 2005 13:53:46 GMT -7
Right, Wielkopolska was always better organized and more modernized that the rest of Poland. But I am from Little Poland and I remember my husband seeing babushka with chicks following her hoping for food - he was extatic to see this picture also
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Post by forza on Nov 25, 2005 17:12:04 GMT -7
I don't have my own pics but looking at someone's else pics I have to say Best babcias and villages are still to be found in Ukraine. When I say "best" I mean the ones that resemble the ones we remember from our childhoods. Perhaps there are some in Eastern Poland still, though. community.webshots.com/album/179614042dhYvjc/1
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Post by Jaga on Nov 25, 2005 20:14:30 GMT -7
I don't have my own pics but looking at someone's else pics I have to say Best babcias and villages are still to be found in Ukraine. When I say "best" I mean the ones that resemble the ones we remember from our childhoods. Perhaps there are some in Eastern Poland still, though. community.webshots.com/album/179614042dhYvjc/1Forza, these are beautiful pictures. Yes, I know Poles would love to be recognized as the very progressive nation but then they would lose the charm od this rural beauty. I still remember when I was a tour-guide taking people back from Auschwitz and then we saw the farmer with the horse which was pulling up syrena.... the foreign tourists rushed to the windows to do some pictures and I felt... ashamed
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Post by nancy on Nov 25, 2005 20:35:53 GMT -7
Forza,
The webshots album you chose is wonderful - the woman - Vera - who took those photos is really an exceptional photographer. I admire her images very much.
Jaga (and everyone),
I don't know what "pulling up syrena" means, but I have to tell you this story.
On my trip to Poland, last year, 4 of us were driving on the road to Olszyny. We were talking about photos that I had taken years before - one picture was of a farmer with a horse and cart. One of the Polish men said "well, you will not see that any more."
We went around a bend, and coming up the hill toward us were two men and a horse-drawn cart. They smiled and waved, and I wanted nothing more than to jump out of the car and take their photograph. Why? Because the first man looked so much like my own brother!
I truly wanted to stop the car and ask if I could take the picture, but I did not, because the Polish men with us seemed to be astonished that this cart and the farmers had appeared, and I did not want to embarrass them.
However, the image of that man in the road raising his hand in greeting to us has stayed with me to this day, so I guess I have that "photo" in some way.
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Post by rdywenur on Nov 26, 2005 6:14:19 GMT -7
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Post by Yanc on Nov 26, 2005 6:24:07 GMT -7
I don't know what "pulling up syrena" means, but I have to tell you this story. "Syrena" is a car, produced in large amounts between 1957-1972. Here's a link: www.fso.republika.pl/index.htmlIt was very unreliable, so broke very often. That's way sometimes they were pulled by horses. Yanc
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Post by rdywenur on Nov 26, 2005 6:44:09 GMT -7
Yanc.. I inserted a photo. Let me know if you can view it.
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Post by forza on Nov 26, 2005 7:10:50 GMT -7
Please put your image URL address in between image code like in the example below. I put some stars **** ... so the code is visible not the image itself. Without the stars the image would show up. Example: [img**]http://image62.webshots.com/62/4/20/62/489042062xGrlUD_ph.jpg[/img**]
Also: make sure your image URL address is the one from VIEW FULL SIZE page.
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Post by Yanc on Nov 26, 2005 8:44:16 GMT -7
Yanc.. I inserted a photo. Let me know if you can view it. No I can't. There seems to be probelm with Webshots server. When I pasted picture URL to another instance of Internet Explorer it responded with error: "You don't have privileges to see the page". However after second try it opened up. I modified your link to be link - not image. It seems to help. Yanc
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Post by rdywenur on Nov 26, 2005 9:27:26 GMT -7
Well I have the images on webshots. I have the image url written as Forza has exampled but my problem is that I must not be picking the right url to let everyone view. I guess I don't know what I am doing. The webshots is not private and that is the only reason I can think of no one being able to view.
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Post by nancy on Nov 26, 2005 10:07:42 GMT -7
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Post by rdywenur on Nov 26, 2005 10:22:35 GMT -7
Thanks Nancy and after trying to find a new way to get there I came up with the same url you have above...LOL. I should have read your post first. (banging head against the wall)
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