Judy, my brother has hours of interviews with them and a book in progress for many years now. Whether it ever comes together or not as a published piece, it's chocked full of amazing stories and unlikely coincidences. One memory I have was the visit of an old guy by the name of John de Rosen to our home sometime in the early 60s.
He was a Polish mosaic artist and he was in Saint Louis at the time to work on a large mural he was commissioned to do for the Saint Louis Cathedral, a gorgeous (and massive) Romanesque church that was in construction for most of the 20th Century. He also did the huge mosaic of the Christ above the altar in the National Cathedral in D.C. and stuff at the Pope's Castle Gandolfo. Anyway, there had been a story about his Saint Louis project in the papers at the time and my mother read about it and wrote to him because she remembered him from times he had come to her father's Castle Lesko where he had designed the stained glass work for the chapel. He came and visited for the day and brought with him a small painting as a gift for my mother; it was one of the original designs he had prepared for her father before the final approval, construction and installation of the windows. He wrote a sweet dedication to her at the bottom and it's been hanging in the foyer ever since. Very cool stuff, for sure. ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" <reavismarek@> > wrote: > > > > Thanks, Doug, it's been lucky for me and my brother and sister > > that our folks have shared their memories as thoroughly as they > > have, and that they're still available to resource despite their > > age. > > Have you considered getting your parents to relate > their experiences in detail into a tape recorder, > to do an "oral history" project with them? >
