We’re all familiar with the descendants of Eastern European ethnicities that populate Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties — Polish, Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Carpatho-Rusyn. Wait. Carpatho ...
“We are Slovak!” my grandfather would yell. Emphatically, my father would bellow back, “We are Rusyn!” And so it went, until one of them gave up. Karen Chorba has enjoyed exploring her Slovak and ...