October 2010 Entries
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- By Nancy Ferguson -
A Peek Behind the Iron Curtain
This is from my journal: What wonderful girls! I turn off the main roads to track down a castle or a small village and they don't complain; I stop at every ruined church and they remain patient; I'm often lost; they don't seem to mind. Dina consistently tries to open forbidden doors or walk down barricaded passageways. Lisa looks at these forbidden forays with disdain, much too adult to participate in such mischief. I am so proud.
It was too cold to camp; we found a five hundred year old...
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- By Peggy Perry -
The walls of their Villa home tell their story – displaying mementos of Mel Smokler’s career, Olga’s oil paintings and lovely views of her home city where they met.
Mel grew up in a Boston suburb and was in the Army from 1942 to 1946, serving in Africa and Italy. In Florence at the end of the war he met Olga at a Red Cross center. An office colleague had invited her to the Center one day to help teach American soldiers to dance. ("He couldn’t dance a step," she laughs.) Culturally, he could not visit...