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Various ventures into Mr. Scott’s mind.

Cemetery of Memories

The first time I approached the cemetery in Lipnica Wielka was November of 1996, and I headed up for my first experience with All Saints' Day in Poland. I took pictures and made mental notes for my journal: I left my apartment around 4:30 and headed up to the cemetery...
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Trstená Supermarket

Just across the border from where I lived in Poland (Lipnica Wielka) and where my wife grew up (Jablonka) is a Slovak town called Trstená. We go there every time we visit family in Poland. I love Trstená because unlike much of Central Europe, it seems frozen in time....
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Warszawa Centralna

Looking at some old pictures, I found a shot of Warszawa Centralna train station from about 2002. It was an exterior night shot, and there was little indication of what the station looked like inside. What it looks like now is vaguely similar, but there have been so...
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Ghetto Wall

Ghetto Wall

Oct 22, 2017

One of the few fragments of the Warsaw Ghetto wall still standing.

Homestead

Homestead

Oct 8, 2017

The house in which my mother-in-law grew up in southern Poland.

Tommy Emmanuel

Oct 7, 2017

The greatest living guitarist. Brilliance isn't always flashy...

Running in the Fields

Running in the Fields

Sep 30, 2017

When we're visiting Babcia in Poland, we often go for walks in the fields that surround her little village.

Chopin

Chopin

Sep 24, 2017

The Romantic composer Frederic Chopin, a Pole by birth, requested that, upon his death, his heart be removed and buried in Poland, with the rest of his earthly remains to be buried in France. To...