History, Real Life and Faith
Who had ever heard of Kutna Hora? Certainly not us. Yet, my husband has an interest in metallurgy and I figured we needed a stop on our nine-hour drive from Krakow to Prague. So, we arranged to stop there. Silver founded it Sitting on top the largest silver mine in Europe in the 13th century, it was the second most…
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We visited Auschwitz as a pilgrimage on our way to Prague. What an emotional stop. Someone we love lost three family members there during WWII. I didn’t think she would ever visit–the horror and loss is too much. But we could go in her place and honor three individuals whose murder changed so much. It behooves us to never forget…
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We saw two special Krakow museums during our April 2018 visit. While Krakow boasts many museums–it is, afterall, a major university town and has been for at least 800 years–these are the two we liked the best. We began our sight-seeing at the Rynek Underground Museum. That describes it perfectly. It’s under the Cloth Hall market square! For us, it…
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Don’t you love to look at architectural details on buildings? I live in the suburbs of a middle-sized town in California. Ours is a tract house and we’re perfectly happy with it. I stroll our neighborhood admiring gardens and colorful front doors. But the houses themselves look similar. That’s not true in the big city and certainly wasn’t in Krakow….
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We went to see the Krakow trumpeter in April 2018. I’d read Eric P. Kelly‘s 1929 Newberry Award winning book, The Trumpeter of Krakow, and wanted to hear him in action. The hejnal song he plays is charming–even if it never finishes. My daughter and husband got to meet him. We enjoyed the bugling during our entire stay. Why does…
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We revisited the Cold War during a recent trip to Poland. We’d not been to Poland before and were curious to see a land geographically so vulnerable to its neighbors. Before we left, I read Poland by James Michener, The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Kelley and Searching for Schindler: A Memoir by Thomas Keneally (about writing the book; fascinating)….
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