Slovenian Women's Union of America NYC

Slovenian Heritage Weekend (click here for a larger image)

In November members and friends gathered at the Appalachian Mountain Club's Mohican Outdoor Center in Blairstown, NJ for a Slovenian Heritage Weekend. It was a great success!

We hope everyone enjoyed reading the article on our event in the Jan/Feb issues of Zarja but in case you missed it the highlights of the weekend were hiking, traditional folk dance workshop, basic Slovene language lessons and kifli (nut butterhorn cookies) making demonstration. There were authentic Slovenian culinary delights, including roast pork loin, potatoes and sauerkraut, tifa, liptavski sir, walnut potica, terragon potica and gibanica. Dinner was preceded by tasting from a selection of both red and white Slovenian wines. Evening entertainment included a choice of piano playing and singing with some of the 'locals' and screening of Vesna (1953), one of the most popular and much loved classic Slovenian films.

Thanks to everyone who participated but especially Lynn and Ria for the original idea and extensive and detailed planning! Thanks also to Mia Branc for the fabulous meal, Mike Dalton and Tanya McCabe of the AMC for all their help in getting the weekend organized, Emil Gaspari of TriWines for his generous donation of Slovenian wines and organic pumpkin seed oil, Alfonz Polajner for making the trip to teach the dances, Maria Skrilec for her gibanica and the samples of her cherries infused with slivovitz!

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New York City Branch of Slovenian Women's Union of America