LVIV – As Holly Palance neared her ancestral village of Ivane-Zolote in Ternopil Oblast on Sept. 15, she couldn’t help noticing how much the lush green, hilly countryside resembled the rural coal-mining area of Pennsylvania where her father grew up and once worked, and where she would visit her grandparents on trips from Los Angeles.
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Holly Palance holds the ritual bread with which she was greeted in her ancestral village of Ivane-Zolote, Ternopil Oblast, with her cousin Lida Palahniuk (second from left), the local school’s principal (right) and a schoolteacher (left).
