Here, in beautiful Polish/Galician Babice, Frank is posed next to a tree that is next to the former homestead of his Polish ancestors.
Frank’s Polish grandmother, Francziska Zybura (her married name was Wilczek) was born in Galician Babice in 1902. After getting excellent marks in the local school, she left for the US in 1921.
I’m back now in Sweden but with severe Internet-lag, after four days in a charming Krakow guesthouse with wonderful beds but no way to upload my gorgeous photos. I will be posting the best of my Babice photos on Flickr over the next couple of days–for example, Frank’s Polish relatives, who look just like him and the photo of 13-year-old Frank his great-grandma sent home to Poland–not to mention the wonderful food there and amazing people we met.
The stories of who did what and how great it turned out can be found in the sequential captions of all those photos, so go there and read them!