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Travel Weekly's Kenneth Kiesnoski and family members recently visited Poland on a heritage trip. With cousins Michael and Veronica Wyparlo at the unique "Welcome to Mielec" sign at the edge Mielec, home to a Sikorsky aircraft plant.

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Dispatches from Poland

Travel Weekly's Kenneth Kiesnoski and family members recently visited Poland on a heritage trip. With cousins Michael and Veronica Wyparlo at the unique "Welcome to Mielec" sign at the edge Mielec, home to a Sikorsky aircraft plant.

Travel Weekly's Kenneth Kiesnoski and family members recently visited Poland on a heritage trip. With cousins Michael and Veronica Wyparlo at the unique "Welcome to Mielec" sign at the edge Mielec, home to a Sikorsky aircraft plant.

We attended Sunday Mass at St. Joseph the Carpenter church in my grandmother's home village of Rziedzianowice, outside Mielec.

Mom at the ruins of a 14th century castle at Olsztyn, outside Czestochowa.

Children visit the shrine of the Black Madonna icon at Jasna Gora on the occasion of their First Holy Communions.

A view over Zakopane with Mom, Jeanette, on an unfortunately cloudy day.

A highlander band churns out folk tunes at Chata Zbojnicka, a mountain-bandit-themed inn in Zakopane.

My sister, Tara Muratore, meets local wildlife on Gubalowka Hill in Zakopane.

Horse and buggy ride back to Krakow hotel with Mom after lunch in the Old Town square.

Descending some of the nearly 500 steps down into the depths of the 700-year-old saltworks at Wieliczka, outside Krakow, Poland.

My sister, Tara Muratore (left) and mother, Jeanette, pose with the dragon, or "smok," at Wawel Castle in Krakow.