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U.S. Author of Lithuanian Heritage Comments on “Cemetery Convention Center”

Posted on 17 August 2015 by Defending History



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by Donna Druchunas


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Seriously, who wants to go to a convention on top of an old graveyard, Jewish or otherwise, anyway?

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Donna Druchunas is a Vermont based author of Lithuanian heritage. Her new book is Lithuanian Knitting: Continuing Traditions.

 

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