This site will provide a foray into the rich heritage of mostly Eastern and Central Europe, with a focus on Eastern Europe.  Learn about the disintegration of a life-experience that used to be handed down in spoken word or song in a genre that has evolved spectacularly in form and function over the past many centuries. There is so much to ponder in them – from the image of a ghostly churchhovering on a river near the Danube Delta, to the many abandoned buildings with facades crudely renovated overnight for the Communist propaganda spectacle that would unfold in all its dread splendor.