The 42nd Annual Carpatho-Rusyn Celebration, will be held on Sunday, October 27, 2024 at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church in Uniontown, located at 201 E. Main Street. The church is celebrating its annual ethnic festival in the Parish Social Hall from 12:00 Noon to 5:00PM.

Divine Liturgy for the day will be 9:00AM, and doors will open for the festival at 12:00 noon. There will be ethnic foods such as holubki, pirohi, halushki, kolbasi and sauerkraut, soup, pagach, baked goods (long rolls, a variety of pastries, cakes, kolachi, breads), and much more.

This annual event will feature performances of Rusyn Folk music by “SOKYRA” formerly “Rusynsky Betjare” starting at 12:30 p.m. and continuing throughout the afternoon. There will be a speaker and/or video presentations on Rusyn cultural aspects such as customs and traditions. The day will include a display of artifacts, authentic costumes, models of Rusyn wooden churches, photographs, and documents. There will be folk art demonstrations such as pysanky, embroidery, iconography, bobbin lace making, as well as a church tour, and children’s activities. Crafts, embroidered Easter basket covers, the parish cookbook ”Carpathian Cookery” will also be for sale.

Father Kyprian Wojciechowski is Administrator. Handicapped accessible. Admission is free. For more information call 724-438-1382, (leave message).                                                                                                                                                                                            

NOTE: For more information and updates, please check parish website http://www.stjohnbaptist-byzcath-uniontown.org/ or Facebook www.facebook.com/StJohnByzUniontown or call 724-438-1382 M-F 9AM-3 PM (leave message).