A once-in-a-lifetime concert was presented in my hometown of Detroit, Michigan on May 18, 2014. The Community Chorus of Detroit joined by three choirs, totaling 175 voices; a full orchestra; and Metropolitan Opera soloists, performed Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Their masterful performance paid tribute to the courageous Jewish …
On Saturday, May 24, 2014 at 1:00 p.m., Sandra Novacek, Cass Corridor resident, librarian, writer, and publisher (Ten21 Press) will read an excerpt and talk about Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance, the memoir written by her late husband Czech/Detroiter – artist, author, engineer Charles Novacek. The event …
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 …
