AWARD WINNING TITLE! We attended a reception in Bloomington, Minnesota in May 2011, for the award winners in the 21st contest of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association. Our 2010 title, Czechs Forever, by Robert S. Wachal, was a finalist in the biography section.
Compiled by Robert S. Wachal. Including Exit Havel: The King leaves the Castle by David Remnick and an essay on Czech classical music by Arthur Canter, and stories of Czech Saints by Pat Martin.
The front cover features the beautiful stained glass round window in St. Wenceslaus Church showing the patron Saint Wencelsaus of the Czech lands on a white horse. The back cover features St.Wenceslaus Catholic church in Spillville, Iowa.
Featured in the book is the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Houston's Czech Center, (Texas) the history of the center, and its founding by Effie and Bill Rosene.
Arthur Canter is a University of Iowa professor emeritus in Iowa City, Iowa, who for over twenty years has written musical reviews and interpretations for many publications including this book with his history of Czech musicians.
Pat Martin, president of the Guild for the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids researched the saints on the Charles Bridge in Prague for a book about the figures on the bridge and then supplied excerpts about particularly important Czech Saints for his book.
Robert S. Wachal of Iowa City, a retired professor of linguistics from the University of Iowa, has a delightful essay about growing up Czech as well as many of the profiles of famous Czechs in the book. Also contributing profiles of the famous Czechs was David Wright of Decorah, scholar and writer.
The history of the Czech Republic is told through the ages in the biographies of the people who made both the Czech homeland great and those who contributed to America.
Compiled by Robert S. Wachal. Including Exit Havel: The King leaves the Castle by David Remnick and an essay on Czech classical music by Arthur Canter, and stories of Czech Saints by Pat Martin.
The front cover features the beautiful stained glass round window in St. Wenceslaus Church showing the patron Saint Wencelsaus of the Czech lands on a white horse. The back cover features St.Wenceslaus Catholic church in Spillville, Iowa.
Featured in the book is the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Houston's Czech Center, (Texas) the history of the center, and its founding by Effie and Bill Rosene.
Arthur Canter is a University of Iowa professor emeritus in Iowa City, Iowa, who for over twenty years has written musical reviews and interpretations for many publications including this book with his history of Czech musicians.
Pat Martin, president of the Guild for the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids researched the saints on the Charles Bridge in Prague for a book about the figures on the bridge and then supplied excerpts about particularly important Czech Saints for his book.
Robert S. Wachal of Iowa City, a retired professor of linguistics from the University of Iowa, has a delightful essay about growing up Czech as well as many of the profiles of famous Czechs in the book. Also contributing profiles of the famous Czechs was David Wright of Decorah, scholar and writer.
The history of the Czech Republic is told through the ages in the biographies of the people who made both the Czech homeland great and those who contributed to America.
