The striking thing
about the first encounter ashore was the marking of
Jozef. His jacket was marked with chalk. It was a
casual act, without exchange of words, done by a young official who
did it as though he had already marked dozens today and thousands
in days past.
The Authors
Jadwiga's Crossing is a work of father
and son.
Aloysius A. Lutz was the product of a Polish
home in a Polish neighborhood of Dunkirk, New York, near the shores
of Lake Erie. One of eight children, he was born in the
early years of the 20th Century and grew up hearing stories of
immigration to America. During the Great Depression, he
promoted amateur boxing in Dunkirk, and later worked
in Dunkirk industries, including the Allegheny-Ludlum Steel
Corporation. He began work on Jadwiga's
Crossing in the 1950's, but died in 1966 before completing
it.
Richard J. Lutz (e-mail), a lifelong writer,
broadcast journalist and media specialist, is the son of Aloysius
and Lena Hartlieb Lutz. He worked in commercial and
public radio and television in Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania,
and Wisconsin before moving to New York City as a consultant on the
nexus of digital technology and mass communications. He
holds degrees from The University of Michigan, where he was also a
journalist in residence in 1978-79. He edits and publishes
The Main Street
WIRE, the fortnightly newspaper serving the community of
Roosevelt Island, New York City, while working on
Jadwiga's America, the sequal to Jadwiga's
Crossing.
ashore was the marking of
Jozef. His jacket was marked with chalk. It was a
casual act, without exchange of words, done by a young official who
did it as though he had already marked dozens today and thousands
in days past.
Aloysius A. Lutz was the product of a Polish
home in a Polish neighborhood of Dunkirk, New York, near the shores
of Lake Erie. One of eight children, he was born in the
early years of the 20th Century and grew up hearing stories of
immigration to America. During the Great Depression, he
promoted amateur boxing in Dunkirk, and later worked
in Dunkirk industries, including the Allegheny-Ludlum Steel
Corporation. 
He began work on Jadwiga's
Crossing in the 1950's, but died in 1966 before completing
it.
Richard J. Lutz (