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14 WWW.UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ГРУДЕНЬ 2017 did. The room containing Maria Mazur’s pysanky is filled with items that were made outside the bor- ders of Ukraine. Along with Maria’s beautiful pysanky are musical instruments made in the USA and a tapestry made in Siberia. Ukraine, it seems, is found wherever Ukrainians happen to live. Visitors admiring the Hutsul display Sisters of Saint Basil t he Great enjoying the display in the village home room. Another room in the museum is filled with items made in Ukraine itself. There are items from the Hutsul region and traditional outfits from var- ious parts of Ukraine. And althou gh both museum rooms are exquisite, the room that stole people's hearts was the village home room, a room designed to look like an old Ukrainian one - room home, which is by far my favorite. This room includes a modest table, a bed, a prayer corner and, of c ourse, a “peech” or stove. The far corner of the room was designed to look like “seeny” (what we would now call a mudroom) stocked with old garden and farm tools. I've been told that many Ukrainian muse- ums have a similar room with a similar looking stove, but the stove at Manor College is unlike any other because of the way it was created. The story is worth telling. Roman Volosevich is part of the maintenance team at Manor College. He volun- teered his free time to create the stove from scratch. I was able to see the work in progress and quickly realized that this was truly a labor of love. Roman has fond memories of growing up in a sim- ilar home in Ukraine and modeled the stove after one in his grandparents' home, right down to a special hole his grandfathe r cut into the side of the stove one day (to hear the story of the hole in the stove you must come for a tour). Night after night Roman worked tirelessly, putting all his heart and soul into the project. I could see this stove meant so much more to him tha n just wood and plaster: It was home. The renovation was a great success. If you haven’t already done so, I strongly encourage you to vis it. Photographs courtesy of Manor College A Note from the Editors: Guidelines for Submitting Articles to Our Life 1. Please send each article as Word document attachment via email to unwlaourlife@gmail.com. Please DO NOT type your article into the body of your email or send as a PDF file. 2. Identify your work . In the subject line of your email, please provide title or subject of the article you are submitting for publication and designate whether the article is in English or Ukrainian. (type in ENG or UKR to identify which). If applicable, include UNWLA Branch # . 3 . Deadlines. Producing a bilingual monthly magazine is a complex matter that requires extensive cooperation and coordination between and among authors, photographers, editors, and Computoprint. Editing and layout take time and effort and it is for this reason that we set deadlines for materials to be publis hed in any given month. Materials submitted later than the designated deadline wreak havoc on the production process and ofte n create unnecessary additional work for all concerned. Please note that all materials (articles and photos) for any given issue of the magazine must be received by the editors by the 5th of the month preceding the month of publication. Materials received after this deadline may be bump ed to the next issue. Last but not least : Please do not send identical articles to Our Life and any other publication simultaneously as this constitutes a breach of professional courtesy. (In some cases, it is also illegal to do this as it may violate copyright laws.) If you feel the information you wr ote about is important enough to share with a broade r or different audience, write a separate and distinct article for each publication. Thank You for all your hard work and for your cooperation!
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