“Mother showed me the nearby cemetery, where Ilonka was buried. Once a year on Dusicky (All Souls’ Day) on November 2, like everybody else from the village, we would go to the cemetery, and my family would light the customary candle at my sister’s grave in her honor.” …
When my late husband Charles and I first met face to face in 1996 he told me he had seen me somewhere before. . . “across a crowded room.” Charles declared he painted portraits and “never forgot a face.” He definitely remembered seeing mine. Somewhere. I hoped that was a good thing! I oddly felt …
Today, 10/21/14,* I hail the second anniversary of the launch of BORDER CROSSINGS: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance. Thank you one and all for your encouragement and support of Charles Novacek’s award-winning memoir and me through this remarkable journey! Many borders have indeed been crossed. Charles’ timeless firsthand account of his life spent …
Detroiter Sandra Novacek will present an illustrated talk on her late husband Charles Novacek’s life as told in Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 from 6-8 p.m. at the Scarab Club, Detroit. Sandra will show vintage family photos and give details of the dangers her husband faced …
Free people read freely! Every year hundreds of books have been either removed or challenged in schools and libraries in the United States. The American Library Association (ALA), says there were at least 464 in 2012. The librarian and freedom-loving American in me has always been concerned by this and so each year I join the …
From Charles Novacek’s Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance My father could not understand the mid-century chaos that spread discontent and disregarded peoples’ right to live in peace. Silently I watched his torment over the conditions in which we found ourselves when the war ended. Politicians had not— and still have not— learned …
