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Polish soil - who wants to buy?



polishsoil  Jan 12, 10, 12:16    #1
This is a question for Poles abroad (USA, GB & other countries): if you had a choice - would you buy a few pounds of polish soil, photography (or/and video) from your (or your ancestors) dwelling place in Poland? Have it got any sentimental value for you?


Polonius3Threads: 963
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Jan 12, 10, 12:28    #2
Dunno if this is practised elsewhere in Diaspora, but in the USA some Polish-born Polonians keep a handful of Polish soil on hand to be sprinkled on their coffins at the graveside funeral ceremony. They are therefore symbolcially laid to rest in the soil from whence they sprang.
The place to advertise this (and other goods and services of Pol-Am interest) would be the largest-circulation All-English-language Polish-themed newspaper published in the US:
Polish-American Journal (based just outside Buffalo, NY)
info@ polamjournal.coml


caprice49Threads: 4
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Joined: Aug 5, 09 ♀ 		 Jan 15, 10, 13:09    #3
polishsoil:
polish soil,

Poles in the UK who were unable to return to Poland under communism did obtain Polish soil which was used to put on the coffin when buried.


wildroverThreads: 180
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Joined: Jun 7, 07 ♂ 		 Jan 15, 10, 13:13    #4
How much is the Polish soil worth then...? I have tons of it in my garden...!


ChrisPolandThreads: 3
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Joined: Oct 15, 09 ♀ 		 Jan 15, 10, 19:31    #5
Me too!

This idea reminds me a little bit of the piece of the Berlin Wall that my father bought (Although he was right at the wall when it came down, he still paid somebody for a piece of it along with a t-shirt that reads "I was there" in German.) It is a really cool piece of rock, chipped out of the wall. Interestingly enough it has graffiti on all sides, hee, hee.

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