Treska Lindsey's WWII journal published

From the Times-News:

For Europeans who opposed German Nazism, the years of World War II were fraught with danger, deprivation and displacement. Treska Lindsey, 90, not only survived those years but managed to record poignantly her family's experiences in an illustrated journal she kept by her side as they worked in occupied France after fleeing Belgium.

Illustrated with beautifully detailed sketches of her family at work in the countryside and the people of France they met, the journal traveled with her the long miles between her homeland and Flat Rock, where she and her husband came to settle.

When she was 87 years old, at her brother's urging, the journal was shown to a French publisher and printed. Now "The Brutish and Magical Years: 1940-1944" has been published in English, and her family and friends are inviting the public to a celebration of the book.

Born Therese Gevaert, she was the daughter of artist Edgar Gevaert and the granddaughter, on her mother's side, of sculptor George Minne. Hers, she said, was a family of artists. So it was only natural that, as a 16-year-old girl, uprooted from her affluent life in the Belgian countryside, she would turn to art to describe their new lives as refugees working as farm laborers and lumberjacks. . .

Want to go? 
What: Celebration of the English translation of The Brutish and Magical Years: 1940-1944 by Treska Lindsey
When: 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16
Where: Highland Lake Cove in Flat Rock
Extra: Lindsey will sign books and exhibit her artwork. Refreshments will be served. Copies of the book also are available at The Fountainhead Bookstore in Hendersonville and Malaprop’s in Asheville.

Read it all.