From Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Regarding the Russian Revolution):

From Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Regarding the Russian Revolution):
".....If you charged someone with the task of creating a new world, of starting a new era, he would ask you first to clear the ground. He would wait for the old centuries to finish before undertaking to build the new ones, he'd want to begin a new paragraph, a new page.

"But here, they don't bother with anything like that. This new thing, this marvel of history, this revelation, is exploded right into the very thick of daily life without the slightest consideration for its course. It doesn't start at the beginning, it starts in the middle, without any schedule, on the first weekday that comes along, while the traffic in the street is at its height....."
They cut down the trees, they burned them, they even pulled up a few stumps. The roots, they were simply buried too deep...They are coming back to the surface now, springing forth new life, in the spectacular green of early spring....Strider

Friday, August 8, 2025

Lincoln 2025

The AHSGR convention in Lincoln was an opportunity to present my findings to a larger audience. I had made a presentation the previous year in Oklahoma City, but to a rather limited audience. This time there were well over one hundred people in the audience. The presentation was called "The Demise of Rohrbach and the Berasan Colonies - a Personal Perspective". I covered the experiences of my great grandfather and his descendants during the first half of the twentieth century, ending with the occupation during World War II and the evacuation to Poland, then dispersed into Germany, and to the Soviet Union.

The presentation was well received and resulted in invitations for more presentations.

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