Standing before a tapestry on the wall, Prokopovych said that her grandfather Eustachij Pronczak had a small grocery store in Ukraine and was going bankrupt. "A cousin in New York wanted to help him, but knew my grandfather was too proud to accept money," she said. "So he commissioned my grandmother Varvara to make this tapestry. She made it out of potato sacks sewn together and embroidered over with wool threads."