The year was 1982. The Baby Boomers were growing up which left the post-WW2 suburb of Tonawanda, NY with more schools then students. The smaller K-2 schools built quickly for the boomer kids had already started to close (I was supposed to attend Horace Mann school but it closed the spring before I started- it […]
Today in dead Nancy stuff a guest appearance from my great grandfather (or maybe my dead great uncle- I need to double check which one was Charles F) Find this content useful? Share it with your friends!
Kollyva via the Orthodox Wiki Kollyva (Greek: Κολλυβα,(kólliva); Serbian: кољиво,(koljivo); Romanian: colivă; Bulgarian: коливо,(kolivo); Ukrainian and Russian: Kutya(or Kutia)) is an offering of boiled wheat that is blessed liturgically in connection with the Memorial Services in Church for the benefit of one’s departed, thereby offering unto God, as it were, a sacrifice of propitiation (atonement) for the dead person, and in honor of […]
