Gathering The Umphrey Family Site

Me on Marijana’s balcony with the River and Belgrade in the background

Oplemac Church - This is between K- and Belgrade. It was built by Serbia’s royal family (who, until recently, had all been living in exile for decades because of the politicla situation in the country). This church is more of a burial monument than a place of worship. 

River Morava. THis is the view on our way back from the monastry, a class trip I went on with an ecological workshop class. 

Sumarice--This is the monument in a memorial park in K--. The V is the Roman numeral for the fifth level class (14-15 year-olds) of Serbian students who were taken from their school and killed here by Nazi soldiers during WWII.

Milan--one of the teachers who took me here-- also said his grandfather was killed in the same area during the war. (but not during the same event memorialized here)

Fruska Gora--This is the area of the nicest (most modern) hotel I’ve seen in Eastern Europe. Serbia had a final celebration for this project Friday and Saturday while I was here so I gathered here with 30 teachers and students from around the country for a few days.

The hotel just opened in the last few years. It’s up on a hill an hour or so outside Belgrade--very rural. But, about 30 yards behind in front of it is a communications tower of some sort that was also bombed by NATO. 

This Christian Orthodox church in Belgrade has been being constructed for over 1/2 a century. Construction stopped because of WWII and then also again during communist times. They are still finishing a few things and all the landscaping is new in the last few years.