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| | Chicagoan brings legacy of Bohdan Lepkyi back to Berezhany (01/11/04) |
 | | Smyk and his wife, Lida (also a native of Berezhany) tackled the project with zest, setting up a traveling exhibit of Lepkiiana in the United States and Canada, which included stops in such cities as Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York, Edmonton and Winnipeg and Toronto. |
 | | He returned to Berezhany in 1991 and continued with plans for the Bohdan Lepkyi Museum, which was opened in 1995 with the participation of Dr. Smyk. |
 | | Already an honorary citizen of both Zhukiv and Berezhany, as well as an honorary member of the Prosvita Society in Ukraine and a recipient of both the Brothers Lepkyi Prize and the Volodymyr Vynnychenko Prize of the Ukrainian Cultural Fund, Dr. Smyk remains humble. |
| www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2004/020431.shtml (1400 words) |
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