Uczta

Uczta (Polish: celebratory feast) festivals have long been a tradition of the Sts. Peter and Paul Church congregation. Its parishioners, traditionally Polish, used the fall harvest festival as a fundraiser for the church. The practice began informally in Pulaskifield as a cultural celebration of the late summer harvest at the turn of the century. It evolved into an organized, well attended regional event from 1976-1989. As the Polish population aged and the Depression-era generation diminished, so did the ambitions of the event’s organizers and the Uczta’s popularity overcame the abilities of the volunteer efforts and ceased being an annual event. It returns occasionally as a theme for church fundraising, most recently as the “Uczta to Go”, with church members following family recipes handed down from the past to make dinner items available to local churches for a modest cost. That successful effort provided funds to pay the costs of parishioner children attending St. Mary’s Catholic School.

Memories and clippings of those bygone days: