Subcarpathia: Chequamegon History Speaker Event
October 9, 2023
Hello loyal readers, Leo here. I wanted to let everyone know about a history event coming up on October 21st in Cornucopia. At the Cornucopia Community Center (Bell Town Hall/School), I will be speaking at 3:00pm on Subcarpathia: Ethnicity and Identity in Carpathian Poland, Ukraine, and Slovakia. Contentious Histories, Hopes for Reconciliation. I hope everyone will attend.
While it may be a stretch to include this in Chequamegon History’s stated purview of Lake Superior before 1860, there are undeniable parallels. Not least, many of today’s Bayfield and Ashland County residents (myself included) are descended from Carpathian immigrants. Furthermore, we’ll examine many of the themes of colonization, folk culture, and identity fluidity that we explore here on the site.
Learn about the development and national awakening of modern Eastern European nations, the horrors of World War II, and the complex legacies that shape the current alliance for a free Ukraine.
There is no charge to get in, though I will be collecting donations for friends in Rzeszow, Poland who are engaged in Ukraine relief. Eastern European snacks will be served.
Chequamegon History 
This presentation sounds fascinating. I am familiar with the Ruthenian [Carpatho-Ukraine] community of Mellen, and have been to St Mary’s Russian Orthodox Church in Cornucopia. This week I am attending the first of two lectures at FeUniversity in Hurley on Russia–Ukraine. The presenter, Michael Hittle, Ph.D. Harvard, taught Russian studies at Lawrence U, and is now retired and residing in Southern Iron County. I am looking forward to both programs this coming week! Synchronicity!
My family oral history tells this same story. I am a 3X great grandaughter of the cheif. One of his daughters married Roy. One wife had 14 children mostly girls. Family owned steamships, and arcadian, algonquin blood line history proven and dna.