from the 1880s · 1912 Ondrej Varchola takes a shipOndrej Varchola nastupuje na loď

From the 1880s the Rusyn villages of the north-east emptied westward. Whole valleys sent their young men to the coal mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania and Ohio; some came home with money for land, many never came home at all. Ondrej Varchola of Miková — his American papers call him Andrew Warhola — sailed in 1912 and went to work in a coal mine. He left his wife behind, which was the ordinary pattern: the man went first and the family followed once the fare had been saved.Od osemdesiatych rokov 19. storočia sa rusínske dediny severovýchodu vyprázdňovali smerom na západ. Celé doliny posielali mladých mužov do uhoľných baní a oceliarní v Pensylvánii a Ohiu; niektorí sa vrátili s peniazmi na pôdu, mnohí sa nevrátili nikdy. Ondrej Varchola z Mikovej — americké papiere ho vedú ako Andrewa Warholu — odplával roku 1912 a šiel robiť do uhoľnej bane. Ženu nechal doma, čo bol bežný postup: najprv išiel muž a rodina prišla za ním, keď sa našetrilo na lístok.