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 Sherman Library  DK4081 .K6 2005    AVAILABLE  
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Author Kniffel, Leonard.
Title A Polish son in the motherland : an American's journey home / Leonard Kniffel.
Edition First edition.
OCLC 55955441
ISBN 1585444200 (cloth : alk. paper)
Publisher College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2005.
Description ix, 236 pages ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s Kniffel, Leonard -- Travel -- Poland.
Poland -- Description and travel.
Contents Back in the old country -- Her father's child -- After the first people in the world -- The four corners of Sugajno -- The sign of the cross -- Mothers and sons -- Like Grandma in the back seat -- Last train -- Chiseled in stone -- Castles in the air -- Pieces of change -- The land they love -- To market -- Holy days -- Followed by water -- The best days begin in ordinary ways -- Property -- The priest and the ledger -- Temporary blindness -- All those good-byes -- The body of Christ -- At night by the river -- Dinner with Madame and her son -- In the dark without the son -- The underside of a mushroom -- The hunt for hidden treasure -- Women dancing in their slips -- To Grandmother's house we go -- What used to be Polish -- Little mysteries unraveling -- What took you so long? -- A young man and his needlepoint -- Pilgrims -- The Nowe Miasto hillbillies -- The other side of the family -- A father and his daughter -- Waiting -- The vigil -- Whether or not it's time -- The last act -- Epilogue.
General note Includes index.
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