Extinct or already extinct professions that were once popular in our area include carpentry, roofing, carpentry, cooperage, wheelwrighting, braiding (including wickerwork), sieving, pottery, blacksmithing, saddlery, weaving, tailoring, shoemaking, milling, beading and embroidery1. Carpentry (building wooden houses), roofing (covering and repairing roofs) and carpentry (making wooden furniture) were professions closely related to building and furnishing houses. …
The region described in the articles is, so to speak, an overlay of various areas – geological, state, ethnological or historical. It is customarily divided into three parts: Western, Central and Eastern or also Gorajskie, Tomaszowskie and Rawskie. This area, due to its border character – has the characteristic features of mixing cultures. So let’s …
The children who used to live in our area had to deal with work very quickly. Because of poverty and the large number of farm duties, even the smallest children had their tasks to perform. These were mainly caring for animals: herding geese, goats or cows. The more the children grew, the more difficult their …
Unique by its nature, the religious festival in our area is the feast popularly known as Corpus Christi. The full name is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. This feast is celebrated irregularly (in relation to the annual calendar), on the eleven days after Pentecost – always on a Thursday. …
