Finishing up our Wyatt travel blog, it's a joy to find pictures like these! Here's our group, May 10, 2010---15 students, 3 faculty, one friend all seated beneath the monument to Adam Mickiewicz on Krakow's Market Square. Mickiewicz is Poland's national poet, a romantic 19th century bard and advocate of freedom. And fittingly for this group, he was a son of the old Commonwealth: born in Lithuania, lived in Russia and France, died in Istanbul during a cholera epidemic while organizing a Legion to fight against Russia in the Crimean War.
So here are some American sons and daughters of many nations who have traveled to Krakow to experience a place and history that at first seemed distant from their Michigan homes. This picture shows how comfortable and happy they are to be there---and they want to go back!
