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  • The pride of 'people without a country'

    08/08/2005 3:39:35 PM PDT · by jb6 · 168 replies · 2,782+ views
    HERALD NEWS ^ | August 8, 2005 | MAYA KREMEN
    PASSAIC - There are few Lemkos left, and even fewer who speak their original Slavic dialect. Most of those who do remember have gray hair. But over dill chicken soup in the meeting room of Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Sunday morning, the dozen or so members of the Lemko Association agreed on one thing: They were proud to be Lemkos, even if they always have to explain themselves. "We're a people without a country," said Maryann Bacsik, 53, of Little Falls, whose grandfather came here from Eastern Europe in 1907. "Many people my age have no...