I did “go home” again! And it was magnificent! In a recent blog post I reported that I would be returning on May 9, 2014 to the town and place where Charles and I first met in person – the Cromaine (District) Library in Hartland, Michigan. The town where I had been a library director …
This room is in the building where I first met Charles Novacek in 1996 — Cromaine District Library where I was the library director for 21 years. We had spoken on the phone, but virtually didn’t know each other. One morning Charles surprised me and drove 60 miles from downtown Detroit to meet me in person at …
“This painting is part of a series on war I am painting as I work on my memoir about my life during wartime. The tragic past I set behind me forever, and write about it only to benefit the young; perhaps they could learn from it and avoid another war.” Ten 21 Press in Detroit, …
Cromaine Library, original wing, c.1927 Nearly eighteen years ago I met Charles Novacek for the first time. It was in the original Emil Lorch designed wing of the Cromaine Library in Hartland, Michigan. We had been “matched” by two women artist friends and library patrons, Electra Stamelos and Lula Nestor. I had been the library …
“Border Crossings Revisited,” the exhibit of Charles’paintings at the Saline District Library closed yesterday. Today my neighbor Steve rode with me to the library and helped me take the art work down. Even better – he carried it up two flights of stairs to my condo. Some of the paintings were so large I had …
As a child during World War II, I was in awe of this small Southern Moravian town on the Oslava River. It was full of historical treasures, art works and natural beauty – including a renaissance castle and a bridge lined with baroque sculptures built by Vaclav Adrian in the 1700s. It is a replica …
