• Issue 6, July/August 1999 • Volume 23 •
A Change for the Conservatives From LithuaniaAnother change regarding former Prime Minister Vagnorius. God’s Little BirdsIna Bertulyte Bray Hope for Lithuania’s WatersRasa Ardys-Juška A Stroll Through the Park...Sr. Ona Mikaila
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Looking Back at…Lithuania’s 1998 Song FestivalLaima Šalcius Aid to Farmers on the HorizonLeland Ruth Lithuanian Runners Show Their Pride and TalentRimas Gedeika
Departments. . .REFLECTIONS
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| When Lithuanians were housed in Displaced Person camps in Germany after the Second
World War, culture, tradition, literature, politics, and education were not halted. In
fact, magazines, newspapers, and books (literary, reference and educational) were written
and published to sustain the Lithuanian’s need for cultural continuity. The illustrations (Liepa – July; Rugpiutis – August) come from MUSU KALENDORIUS, 1948. (OUR CALENDAR, 1948) — a booklet with an almanac feel covering the year’s events and holidays, with added poetry, short stories, and essays. The editor expressed that the plight of the exile would be short, but in the interim it was vital to maintain the Lithuanian language and culture wherever fates would lead them. The booklet was published in Dillingen/Donau, Germany, edited by A. Merkelis. |
On the cover:
V. K. Jonynas’s graphic illustration of haymaking in the old style is just one of the fine examples of Lithuanian art in exile.
From METRAŠTIS, 1950. Edited by T. Dr. L. Andriekus, O.F.M. Boston, Ma: Darbininkas Publishing: 1949. p.191.
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