Raganų Kalnas (the "Hill of Witches"), Juodkrantė, Lithuania, August 2011. Filmmaker Frank Barn has made the "Hill of Witches" the subject of an upcoming documentary.
Thanks to my Toronto Cousin for making this photo available to us.
September 30, 2015
Subject Matter
Raganų Kalnas (the "Hill of Witches"), Juodkrantė, Lithuania, August 2011. Filmmaker Frank Barn has made the "Hill of Witches" the subject of an upcoming documentary.
Thanks to my Toronto Cousin for making this photo available to us.
Truly Displaced
Irkutsk, Siberia, USSR, Summer 1956. My Mom's friend Joy stands near the Siberian barracks with her mother and children. Joy mailed this photo after she returned to Lithuania.
September 29, 2015
September 28, 2015
Weepy Reunion
Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1972. We look closely at the scenery along the Going-to-the-Sun Road.
September 27, 2015
The View from the Other Side
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome, Italy, October 1983. My peculiar tour of Rome begins with a visit to a thirteenth-century cloister.
Later in the Season
Penza, Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1965. Natasha, a younger sister of my paternal Grandmother Tatjana, wrote, "With Sashenka in our garden in late autumn."
Thanks to my dear friend D for translating the text from Russian to English.
September 26, 2015
September 25, 2015
Palace Grounds
Linderhof Palace, Ettal, Germany, July 1971. I appear bored; Dad takes more photographs.
(Yes; the windbreaker made the trip to Europe.)
September 24, 2015
Autumn Tradition
Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, October 1964. Some people go apple picking; we visited the Arboretum. (Notice my skinned knee.)
September 23, 2015
Waiting for the Pope
Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 1979. Mr. Irene and his friends await the arrival of Pope John Paul II.
September 22, 2015
Reluctant
Suburban Chicago, Autumn 1965. I probably resisted being photographed that day because of my chapped lips.
September 21, 2015
One More Tam
Verona, Wisconsin, September 2015. This is the "Garnets Tam" designed by Janine Bajus. It's the same design as "Summer Lake." I've now completed the projects for the silent auction.
September 20, 2015
September 19, 2015
A Closer Look (Part 50)
Brooklyn, New York, August 1952. My Mom and my Dad's cousin take a lunch break.
During this time, Mom was an intern at Wyckoff Heights Hospital. In the early 1950s, there were no EMTs. Instead, interns rode the ambulance runs. Mom made many emergency trips throughout New York City. A number of those emergencies were deliveries. It was policy to discourage delivery in the ambulance. Physicians were to determine whether the expectant mother could be transported safely to the hospital. Mom, who still spoke little English, remembers many trips during which she spent most of the ride yelling, "Mama! No Push!!" Mom once decided labor was too far along for the mother to make it to the hospital, so she delivered the baby in an apartment bathroom. A story about that event made it into the newspaper.
Here's the original post.
September 18, 2015
Late Summer in Spring Green
Taliesen Estate, Spring Green, Wisconsin, September 2, 2014. It's the nicest time of year to do the tour.
Related by Marriage: Waiting for the wedding.
Marquette Park, Chicago, Illinois, June 27, 1959. Here's Mr. Irene's maternal Aunt Martha, waiting to depart for her marriage ceremony. She's sitting in the living room of her Parents' home. Aunt Petra appears in the mirror.
I love this photo because it captures the "look" of DP-era Marquette Park. The image also preserves Martha's most common expression.
Harvest
Penza, Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, September 1964. Natasha, a younger sister of my paternal Grandmother Tatjana, wrote, "Natashenka, with a pumpkin, and I, to our beloved one."
Thanks to my dear friend D for translating the text from Russian to English.
September 17, 2015
The Traveling Coat
Unknown Location, Germany, Autumn 1944. Mom doesn't recall why she packed two coats when she fled Lithuania in mid-summer. She took only one dress. By the time she and Jake settled in the Displaced Persons camp, the dress was threadbare, and Mom struggled to darn the worn fabric.
September 16, 2015
The blog celebrates its fourth birthday today.
I've kept my promise to post photos daily. In the last year it was sometimes dicey to make that goal. In January and February, for example, I underwent four weeks of daily radiation that left me battered: radiation was more rattling than any of the chemotherapy treatments I'd had.* Things are better now, thanks to the great providers who oversee my care and a new drug the FDA approved late last year.
When I started blogging, I posted aggressively because I sought to ensure that the "core" family photos would be preserved on this site before I evaporated. As a result, most of the really interesting images have been posted. My supply of snapshots is finite. Although I will continue to blog daily, I likely will decrease the number of posts I publish each day.
Glacier National Park, July 1972. I've walked over to the Many Glacier Hotel, where I enjoy a cola in the lower-level café.
*It was during the drive home from one of those radiation treatments that I hit the deer!
When I started blogging, I posted aggressively because I sought to ensure that the "core" family photos would be preserved on this site before I evaporated. As a result, most of the really interesting images have been posted. My supply of snapshots is finite. Although I will continue to blog daily, I likely will decrease the number of posts I publish each day.
Glacier National Park, July 1972. I've walked over to the Many Glacier Hotel, where I enjoy a cola in the lower-level café.
*It was during the drive home from one of those radiation treatments that I hit the deer!
September 15, 2015
On the Big River
Nemunas Delta Region, Panemunė, Lithuania, about 1927. My Mom rides in the dinghy with her Parents, Jadzė and Jake. Horses pull carts along the bridge.
September 14, 2015
Another View of the House
Kaunas, Lithuania, 1936. I recently stumbled upon this snapshot of my Mom's childhood home. Although the house looks quite different today, the original fence still stands.
September 13, 2015
Exchanging Portraits (Part 52)
Kaunas, Lithuania, October 10, 1948. A friend gave Mom this "senior portrait" and wrote, "When you glance at this photo, remember the friend who loved you very much."
Spring Ritual
Kaunas, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, June 1973. Dora tends to the plot where Zigmunta (Dora's Mother), Jadzė (Dora's Sister), and Dora' first husband are buried.
Dora wrote, "Here I didn't know I was being photographed, but I liked this photo more than the other one."
September 12, 2015
Wool and Sheep
Yesterday, I again returned with a friend to the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival. The place is starting to feel familiar!
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Jefferson, Wisconsin, September 2015. "Ewe" probably know where I did most of my shopping.*
*ADDED: Yarn shopping, that is. I have four of those wonderful bags.
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*ADDED: Yarn shopping, that is. I have four of those wonderful bags.
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