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Tag: Tatra Mountains

February 3, 2019
A Boy, an Illness, and the Mountains He Loved

A Boy, an Illness, and the Mountains He Loved

Charles’ love of the High Tatra Mountains of Slovakia deepened when at the age of nine in 1937, he was sent there to a special sanitarium for children to recover from tuberculosis.  “I was told that the mountain air cured me,” Charles said. There “I became acquainted with the territory where years later I would …

Picnic in Czechoslovakia

Picnic in Czechoslovakia

July 23, 2016

Self-confined to my air-conditioned condo in the city this morning, I look at old photographs and write, determined to escape the heat. One photograph set in the Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia in 1931, soothes me. It captures a happy moment of my late husband Charles Novacek and his family picnicking in a scenic place, surrounded by their friends …

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