I drove over two hours with a friend in April to view Madeleine Albright’s “Read My Pins” exhibit at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The collection included more than 200 pins from Albright’s personal collection that she acquired at jewelry shops, art galleries and flea markets around the world. Albright …
A recent trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts troubled me. One of Charles’ favorite Hudson River School landscape paintings was missing from its regular location in the American Art wing. I asked the guard, “Where is the Cotopaxi painting by Frederic Edwin Church? “I’m not sure,” he replied, “but I think it was one …
DETROIT, MI, May 30, 2013 – Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance by Charles Novacek was awarded the Bronze Medal for “Best in History (World)” book in the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards aka “The IPPYs.” Accepting the award in New York City on May 29, 2013, was Novacek’s widow Sandra Novacek, …
It’s springtime. The tulips have faded, but the lavender bearded iris nod their heads to passersby on the sidewalk where Charles used to walk. 2007. To shake off his attacks of panic. I remember. The frustration. The fear. What could I do? To comfort him. His love of beauty. of flowers. of women. of art and music. …
Well–told and dramatic story Border Crossings is the well-told and dramatic story of a young man whose comfortable life is abruptly transformed by the savagery of World War II. Forced to rely on primal instincts and his familiarity with the rugged highlands of Moravia, Charles Novacek casts his lot first with the anti-Hitler Underground and then …
NEWS RELEASE Minneapolis, Minnesota May 9, 2013 Border Crossings Wins at Midwest Book Awards Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance by Charles Novacek, published by Ten21 Press, won the First Place award in the Autobiography/Memoir category at the 23rd Annual Midwest Book Awards. Winners were announced at …
