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Krystyna Kiełbasa

the driving force of community life in Folwark

Here Krysia hands out kołacz cakes after the consecration of our chapel.

Here Krysia hands out kołacz cakes after the consecration of our chapel.

Krysia – that is how we address her, and the young people say: Mrs Krysia. She celebrates her birthday on the first day of Christmas.

If I say here that no social or cultural event in our village succeeds if Krysia does not approve of it or does not organise it herself, I am not mistaken.

Every event in our village takes place with her presence – here at the village festival she plays music for the guests. This instrument in her hands is present at every event.
Every event in our village takes place with her presence – here at the village festival she plays music for the guests. This instrument in her hands is present at every event.
For dancing and for the rosary, as the proverb says. She never spares her husband!
For dancing and for the rosary, as the proverb says. She never spares her husband!
Her regular place of “work and service” in our chapel before the renovation – at the instruments, here still on the old stage, which no longer exists.
Her regular place of “work and service” in our chapel before the renovation – at the instruments, here still on the old stage, which no longer exists.
Ryszard sometimes manages to play a different role in life – here at a “Polterabend”.
Ryszard sometimes manages to play a different role in life – here at a “Polterabend”.

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