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• Issue 8, October 1999 • Volume 23 •

Issue 8, October 1999 • Volume 23 •

Love at First Sight

Jeanne Dorr
Lithuanian Orphan Care sponsors meet the two children they have been helping.

A Lithuanian Class Reunion

Ed Shakalis
Why study Lithuanian? One class can tell you!

An Update On: “Books for Lithuania”

Albert Gustaff
Lithuanian teachers receive a container filled with educational material to help teach the English language.

Summer on the Baltic: Palanga and Nida

The Sights, the Sounds, the Smells, the Tastes

Kay Yankoski
Traveling to Lithuania’s resort towns provides a person plenty of adventures.

“Books to Note”

Rasa Ardys-Juđka
New books arrive in time for fall reading and holiday gift-buying.

Departments. . .

PERSPECTIVES

CURRENT EVENTS

The Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival — 2000 is gearing up for June 30th, July 1st and 2nd. Thus far over 30 folk dance groups from the United States alone have registered to perform at the Festival.

The Festival will be held at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada on July 2nd. Those interested in more information regarding tickets, hotels, the banquet, or dance group registration, contact the Festival’s office at 2185 Stavebank Road, Mississauga, Ont., Canada L5C 1T3 or phone 905-275-6505 or e-mail jonaitis@pathcom.com.

 

On the cover:
Lithuanian woman depicted in C. Vecellio’s book, “Costumes Anciens et Modernes”, published in 1860, in Paris, France. The book is part of Chicago’s Newberry Library’s Bonaparte collection of books published before 1900. More on this on page 19.


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