For Polish Americans, Christmas is more than just one day

Brooklyn, N.Y. .. In America’s Polish community, Christmas is more than just one day. It’s a season. They don’t merely sing about the twelve days of Christmas. They observe them. When the Downstate New York Division of the Polish American Congress holds its annual Christmas party – the “Oplatek” – it customarily does it on the twelfth day, Epiphany Sunday. Epiphany Sunday commemorates the visit the Wise Men from the East paid to the “Little Town of Bethlehem.” Deviating a bit from the script this year, however, one of the visitors who came to the Polish American Congress “Oplatek” was someone from the West. The Northwest, to be precise.