Tadeusz Staich and Podhale regionalism

Tadeusz Staich (1919–1987) was a Tatra guide, author of sightseeing essays and a poet, author of poems about the Tatra Mountains. During the war he took part in secret teaching and in the resistance movement. In 1956, together with Hanna Pieńkowska, he published a monumental book Drogami skalnej ziemi (Rock Roads). It was a monograph of Podhale’s sightseeing, documenting the state of his spiritual and material culture around 1955. His last work — published posthumously — was a monograph of the historic church in Dębno. The main character is a folk sculptor Józef Janos.