A long time ago, in 1991, I spent three weeks in Ukraine, on a trip with other Baha’is to visit the members of our Faith there. During that time, we went to a collective farm near a town called Veprik, and the Chairman of the Collective, a jolly, friendly man named Vasily, took us to his farm to begin the tour. I drew this sketch of his cozy home while we were waiting for the bus afterwards. The main door is studded with large, decorative nails. Living quarters are on the first floor, and hay storage was on the second, accessible by a ladder. the shapes on the fence are glass jars; after she washes them, his wife puts them upside-down on the fence staves to dry. Vasily made the bench from a couple of sections of a stump, with a board on top. He was very proud of the TV aerial. They were wonderful people, and I think of them often, and pray that they are all right.
Ann Dickinson Sargent 