Thank you all, the tree is growing with the trunk becoming stronger! Yesterday we had a rehearsal with my colleagues for the Jazz Goes To Town festival (October 20 at 6pm CET in Hradec Králové). I came late as I overslept! The guys were patient and we managed to play and sing all the songs. Petr (double bass) was even jumping and dancing while playing! :-)
I have beautiful new photos from Jaromír Matoušek (thank you!) from the opening to the "Roots of a Violet" exhibition at the Volyně Town museum. I want to share them with you. The rest you will see HERE. The exhibition shows interesting and inspiring life and creative work of my Great Aunt Vera P. Kistler who went to the USA as a "war bride" and after the Second World War she married an American soldier. The whole story you will see in the "Project" section of this site. I want to share her courage, energy and trust in life and its difficulties that are possible to manage with you.
Let me introduce you our ancestors, my Grandfather (the second from the right), Vera´s mother (the first from the right):
Vera P. Kistler just married in the USA, remembering her Czech roots, 1947.
Vera was publishing her stories n English and she published three books of fiction in Czech in the Czech Republic.
We opened the exhibition in September 17, 2016. It was really nice event with the young and also with the older generation who came to see it.
There was an American soldier in the Second World War uniform at the exhibition, hope he liked it!
And we played and sang Vera P. Kistler´s songs full of hope during the event.