With Easter approaching this Sunday, and amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, renewed interest is arising in one of the country's most celebrated Easter traditions. Think you're good at coloring eggs with ...
When her children were growing up, Terese Wallack Waldron would spend Good Friday teaching them the fine points of pysanky, the Ukrainian art of decorating eggs for Easter. After one such session in ...
Amanda Ackers remembers when she was 7 years old, sitting with her great-grandmother learning to make her first pysanka. Today she is an adult and her great-grandparents are deceased, but she can ...
WILCOX — The Easter bunny may be jealous of Grace Adam. This spring, as she has done for years, Adam has turned raw eggs into pysanky, or colorful Ukrainian Easter eggs with intricate designs. Her ...
Traditionally, pysanky were decorated out of sight, finished eggs kept covered in baskets until they were blessed by a priest and sent home as good omens for the year ahead. To hear Nina ...