Comments on: TRAVELOGUE: VILNIUS, Part 2 – Diplomacy in Action

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:35:14 +0000

Dear Sue–

I must? [blinking] Oh! Why…yes, indeed, how nice of you to notice! [g]

–Diana

By: Sue Hayes

Sue Hayes — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:06:12 +0000

How exciting that the first “lost” English settlement has just been found at Salmon Creek (where they had moved from Roanoke)- based on the conference held at UNC this weekend. You must be prescient!

By: Barbara Schnell

Barbara Schnell — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:46:18 +0000

Wah! Someone with my name. That is, I used to be Barbara Jacobs before I married.

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:26:55 +0000

Dear Anita–

It’s up around Boone or Blowing Rock. [g]

–Diana

By: Barbara A.Jacobs

Barbara A.Jacobs — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:12:04 +0000

Dear Diana, Can not begin to tell you –how very much I love your books! I too have read them numerous times. Am patiently waiting for the “life Blood book”. I am anticipating that book so much— may just look at it for a couple of months–before I crack it open.NOT!!!Wish you well in all your projects.Barbara Jacobs

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:39:13 +0000

I THINK I remember reading something Diana wrote that said Fraser’s Ridge was somewhere in a 10 mile radius of Boone, NC. I get so excited driving through that area, looking for “The Big House” out of the corner of my eye!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:17:58 +0000

I second this. I want to read the anecdote too!

By: Anita

Anita — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:41:29 +0000

I too have searched the map in NC trying to figure out where Fraser’s Ridge might be…but then they are novels….right?!

By: Marcy Kysilka

Marcy Kysilka — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:53:19 +0000

Diana:

One of my friends forwarded this to me. I appreciate the posting. Just after Lithuania’s independence from the Soviet Union, I spent several weeks in Vilnius, working with the university and educators as they were trying to reconstruct their school curriculum and their training of teachers. I found Vilnius to be a beautiful city. My first trip was within a month of independence, then several more trips, then I returned about 15 month after independence and was warned about the Mafia in the city…it was not as safe as it was before. It was funny, really, as the “mafia” resembled the “mob” in the U.S. during prohibition…zuit zuits, huge American cars that could not navigate the streets of Vilnius, white hats….the whole bit. I also, during my trips to Vilnius, observe the actions of the “language” police….they would fine anyone who displayed the use of any language or symbols of the Soviet Union….they were determined to rid themselves of all things related to the Soviet Union…the biggest challenge, of course, was the language as their language was banned during the many years of occupation; consequently, they struggled to re-create their language and to introduce English as a second language….challenging times for sure.

Marcy

By: Kimbre

Kimbre — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:28:33 +0000

Penny – I assumed it had to be near Boone or Maggie Valley because of the Cherokee. That area of NC is breathtaking and so much of it is still undeveloped (thank goodness).