Carpatho-Rusyn Society Meeting - Thursday, January 24

[jay]

How many people are able to be seated in the MVR meeting room?

[irishbobcat]

I am sure such dignitaries as the Unoffical Mayor of Lansingville will be there!

[jay]

Carpatho-Rusyn Society Youngstown-Warren-Sharon
Meeting and Special Speaker

Thursday, January 24, 6:30 p.m.

- Meeting Location -
MVR Club
410 North Walnut Street
Youngstown, Ohio
Dinner and drinks at your cost

- Program Topic -
"The Great War That Began in American Rus"
By Joel Christopher from the University of Pittsburgh

Mr. Christopher will discuss the way in which turn of the twentieth century transitional migration - including return and cyclical migration among labor migrants between Austria-Hungry and America, who identified variously as "Rusyns," "Russians," and "Ukrainians," contributed to the causes of World War One, especially through their conversion from Greek/Byzantine Catholicism to "Russky" Orthodoxy.