{"id":785,"date":"2008-07-31T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=785"},"modified":"2008-07-31T08:00:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T12:00:57","slug":"konstanty-kaminski-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/07\/31\/konstanty-kaminski-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Konstanty Kaminski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/12037699@N03\/2396682244\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/12037699@N03\/2396682244\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2216\/2396682244_7e0a5d5715.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"00005240_large\" width=\"338\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You wouldn&#8217;t want to mess with this guy, would you? If he has anything to say about it, you wouldn&#8217;t want to mess with his kids either. Or his grandkids. Or his great-grand kids. He was a &#8220;ringer&#8221; for a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanislaus_Zbyszko\">Russian wrestler<\/a> way back when. Look at those hands. My husband now wears this man&#8217;s wedding band (sized down from those size-15 fingers). I told you I was hearty peasant stock.  Wow &#8212; he looks like my brother, and I can even see a little Gavin in that smile. Yes, I said <em>smile<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Konstanty, my paternal grandfather, was born May 26, 1894 and left Poland to escape the Russian draft. As a young man, the prospects of a mandatory 20-year service for a lousy czar seemed pretty miserable. So he left for Massachusetts. Then Henry Ford&#8217;s <a title=\"Five-Dollar-Day\" href=\"http:\/\/bryant2.bryant.edu\/~ehu\/h364proj\/summ_99\/armoush\/page3.html\" target=\"_blank\">five-dollar-day<\/a> brought him to Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>He was a cobbler, a grocer, a peddler, and a whip-maker. He and my grandma and my dad and my aunt left Detroit for Poland in 1933 because Konstanty thought he could make a killing as a whip-maker back in Poland. The capitalist bug had bitten him. That&#8217;s his passport photo up there for the trip. The red tape was too much though, and the whole family moved back to Detroit pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>My dad tells the story about how late in life he drove my granddad to the doctor to look at a wound that needed to be cauterized. The doctor said, &#8220;Okay, Mr. Kaminski. You tell me when it&#8217;s so painful you can&#8217;t stand it.&#8221; My grandfather sat there silent while the doctor continued. My dad smelled burning flesh in the air, and the doctor stopped suddenly and blurted out in exasperation, &#8220;Mr. Kaminski, you were supposed to stop me!!&#8221; Konstanty said in a thick Polish accent, &#8220;You said to stop you when it was so painful I couldn&#8217;t stand it. I can still stand it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my granddad!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"KonstantyandJack by sugarlewisthewestie, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26606341@N02\/2695868534\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3234\/2695868534_be5c803bac_o.jpg\" alt=\"KonstantyandJack\" width=\"387\" height=\"558\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn&#8217;t want to mess with this guy, would you? 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