Editor’s note: This is the latest in a Saturday series of stories and photographs featuring local holiday traditions. VINCO, Pa. – Marie Jarabak has fond memories of her grandmother’s Polish Christmas ...

Detroit’s Polish community celebrates Wigilia, a Polish Christmas Eve dinner tradition. It’s a Polish tradition some say is bigger than Christmas Day itself. The Polish Christmas Eve dinner ...

The Polish traditions in my family come from a simpler time. Back in the 1960s, when the post office was still profitable and phone calls to people more than 25 miles away cost at least a dollar a ...

The Polish American Congress of Northeastern Pennsylvania will hold its annual Christmas wafer (Wigilia) dinner at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, December 7 in the Empire Room of the Touch of Class at the Palace, ...

Keeping watch at the window to spot the first star and preparing a 12-dish supper with one seat empty are two of many customs observed in Poland to this day. Tradition is a significant link between ...

Wigilia, meaning vigil, is the most anticipated feast of the year for Poles. It’s full of symbolism: the table is traditionally set with an empty space for the ‘unknown guest’ and a nest of hay is ...

The Polish American Congress of Northeastern Pennsylvania held its annual Christmas Wigilia the traditional Polish Christmas Dinner Dec. 6 at The Touch of Class, Wilkes-Barre. A short program followed ...

The Wilkes University Polish Room will hold its 14th annual Wigilia (traditional Christmas feast) at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, at the Amber Palace, 228 George Ave., Wilkes-Barre. Traditional Polish foods ...

The Wilkes University Polish Room held its 13th annual Wigilia on Sunday at Amber Palace in Wilkes-Barre. The event featured traditional Polish foods and Polish Christmas carols. ‘The Spot on Mundy ...