The Hill of Crosses: A Monument to the Defiant Spirit of Lithuania
“Thank you, Lithuanians, for this hill of crosses which testifies to the nations of Europe, and to the whole world, the faith of the people of this land.”Continue Reading →
The Tallinn Collector: Soviet Estonia Remembered Through Guidebooks
“Tallinn airport provides direct services by Aeroflot to more than 40 towns and cities in the Soviet Union..."Continue Reading →
Dissidence in Our Blood: Survival in a 1984 Soviet Bunker
“You, obviously, have got to play the dissident. You Lithuanian-Americans were all dissidents to the Soviets.”Continue Reading →
Vilnius Through a 50mm Lens: A Year Photographing Lithuania's Capital
Since last summer, the 50mm Vilnius blog has carried a daily photo of Lithuania's beautiful capital, showing one of its many different sides...Continue Reading →
Living in a State of Non-History: Growing Up Lithuanian-American
For almost half a century, my grandfather stubbornly maintained the New York Consulate of prewar independent Lithuania in a cramped rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.Continue Reading →
The Strange Story of Walk – United by the Soviets, Divided by Freedom
It certainly doesn’t look like a national border – a forgotten, slightly gloomy pedestrianised backstreet...Continue Reading →