Klarinet Archive - Posting 000207.txt from 2003/09

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Paderewski - was Morrison confusion
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:11:33 -0400

Ken Wolman wrote,

>I knew about Chopin's heart. An old Polish custom--that wherever you die,
the
>heart goes back to Poland. About 11 or 12 years ago, Ignace Paderewski's
heart
>finally was sent from the shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown,
PA back
>to Poland. Some people may think it's grotesque--I find it a moving
gesture of
>respect for one's origins.

According to the findagrave Web Site:

http://www.findagrave.com/

Paderewski was originally buried in Arlington National Cemetery in 1941,
because his body could not be returned to Poland during the war. His body
was returned to Poland for burial in 1992,

However, his heart remained in America enshrined at the church of Our Lady
of Czestochowa located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Years before, he wrote
in his memoirs, "America, the country of my heart, my second home".

Don Yungkurth

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