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Interview with John Pastorek and Emma Pastorek, May 4, 1995

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Title
Interview with John Pastorek and Emma Pastorek, May 4, 1995
Subject
Catholics, Slovaks, World War, 1939-1945, Pastorek, Joseph, St. Clement Church (Tarentum, Pa.)
Description
[t1s1]John Pastorek talks about his parents emigration from Slovakia; his father’s work and death in the Tarentum Paper Mill; joining the navy during World War II; attending college while having a family in the 1950s; teaching art at Deer Lakes High School; St. Clement School, Church, and religious traditions in the 1930s and 1940s; ethnic churches. [t1s2]John Pastorek talks about stores and ethnic groups in West Tarentum; Catholic faith; being married at Mount St. Peter in Braeburn; Monsignor Nicola Fusco; Emma being a nurse; Slovak tradition of oplatki; recreation as a child on the hill in Tarentum; decline of Tarentum; working at PPG in Creighton. Emma Pastorek speaks about living and dealing with John's Slovak grandmother. [t2s1]Emma and John Pastorek speak about John's Slovak grandmother being hospitalized.
Contributor
Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Society (depositor), Pastorek, John (interviewee), Pastorek, Emma (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer)
Date
1995-05-04
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 93 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-akvhs-0009
Language
eng
Relation
Voices of Faith, Years of Change: West Tarentum Oral Histories, 1995
Coverage
Tarentum (Pa.)
Rights
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