Kerstin Lange
CommentatorKerstin Lange is a writer and travel guide.
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Syrian architect Mohamad Hafez was at the Fleming Museum recently to speak about how as a college student in Iowa back in 2004, he began to build鈥� -
With apologies to Henry David Thoreau, I鈥檝e lately come to think that the mass of people, or at least a great many of us, are leading lives of noisy鈥� -
I don鈥檛 exactly have a Vermont accent. My first language is German, and even though I started learning English in fifth grade, the accent sticks. It鈥檚 not鈥� -
For those old enough to remember, the fall of 1989 was an exhilarating time. One had to have a heart of stone to not be moved by the chants of 鈥淲e are the鈥� -
Living in two cultures can be enriching, sometimes it鈥檚 just plain baffling. Being a citizen of two countries helps - it makes it harder to dismiss鈥�
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On September 4, 2015, German chancellor Angela Merkel and the Austrian chancellor at the time, Werner Faymann, agreed to let some 7,000 refugees enter鈥�
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Germany is in the news a lot these days as it struggles to take in the thousands of refugees that arrive each day.Twenty-five years ago, the country faced鈥�
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I鈥檝e been feeling haunted by these images: People with little but the clothes on their back, traumatized from whatever they fled from 鈥� these people鈥�
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With everything going on in the world, it can seem as if the events of November 1989 happened in the Middle Ages. But it鈥檚 worth contemplating what鈥�
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Throughout my childhood, June 17th signaled a summer holiday 鈥� when families would pack a picnic and go for a bicycle outing. Only gradually did I realize鈥�
