Hallowe'en

As you may recall from last year, on October 31st Slovaks celebrate All Hallow's Eve by going to the cemetery and decorating their families' graves. Although I don't have any kin here in Tisovec, there is at least one family with my last name; so last night, when we trudged up to the cemetery to see the lights, I took a small candle and some matches and added another light. The experience only increased my desire to go to my great-grandfather's village and look for my own dead.