08.11.2025
Audiobook — the first chapters are recorded
The book is read by the author. The first chapters are already available in the Audiobook section.
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02.04.2025
The village that falls silent
In this part of Huta there is no longer a real farmer. I write about the old life because today's more and more often means empty houses.
14.05.2023
The carriage after a hundred years
The same carriage in which my parents rode to their wedding in 1948 stands in the barn today. The seats are still upholstered in burgundy velour.
30.01.2023
1963 — the year the light came on in the village
Until 1963 Huta Głodowska had no electricity. A paraffin lamp, a well and a wood-fired cauldron were the whole technology of the house.
12.09.2022
A chocolate waltz at midnight
For carnival there were whip-round balls. To an accordion and a drum people danced till dawn, and at midnight came the chocolate waltz.
18.07.2022
Lenten lamentations by a paraffin lamp
On every Sunday of Lent the Lenten lamentations were sung in one house after another. A village without electricity lived by its neighbourhood.
30.05.2022
Seven kilometres with a basket of butter
Once a week butter was churned from the cream. Mother carried it to the market in Lipno — on foot, a basket on her arm.
16.03.2022
Notarial deed no. 277 — the sheet of paper where it all began
On 16 January 1922 Franciszek and Waleria bought the farm in Huta Głodowska. Exactly a hundred years later I finished this book.
20.02.2022
A month on the ocean — how grandmother Waleria followed her husband
Franciszek sailed to America in 1911, leaving his pregnant wife at home. Waleria did not wait.
19.01.2022
The book is finished — a hundred years in one volume
After months of writing, conversations and searching for documents, the account of the Kępiński family and Huta Głodowska is complete.
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The last letter from Stasiek in New York
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Photographs from America — new finds
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Franciszek's ring — the family's oldest keepsake
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The rifle in the old willow — the hardest decision of a sixteen-year-old
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