Here are the concert photos

The interesting things about the concert

Item 1:  there were about 200 people seated in regular tiered seating behind the orchestra at the back. So their view was of the face of the conductor,and the backs of the members of the orchestra.
Item 2:  the conductor enters the stage from the balcony, so comes down about 30 steps to get to the stage.  And so do the soloists.  Which means if they are doing multiple curtain calls, there are a lot of up and down stairs involved.
Item 3:  when I got there I wandered around a bit trying to figure out where my seat was and where I was to pick up my pre-paid vodka and tonic.  In these wanderings I went by the elevator when it opened and someone who appeared to be a maintenance man or backstage hand came out dragging a rolling duffel bag.  He had long scraggly hair and was wearing an old tee shirt and jeans.  Of course, turns out he was one of the four singing soloists, he was the bass.  Panajotis Iconomou.

Item 4;  the vodka and tonic included a lovely snack.  See photo below, as well assume of the other photos of their hall.

Never mind I can't get the photos In here, they will be posted separately.

And now I am in Amsterdam again

Visited the Van Gogh museum today , I think I have a new respect  for his work.  And went to a great concert at the famous  concert hall here.  And found a market...

Leaving Lithuania

This is really a country that cultivates all possible land.  See the photo from the plane.  Looks to me as though they cultivate everything that is not forest.  And maybe they leave the forests alone because so many of them were killing sites during the war.  One source says there were at least 202 places of killing and mass graves in Lithuania.
Anyway here is what Lithuania looked like as I was taking off and if you Look under the wing of the other photo you. Can see a bit of the Baltic Sea as we flew into Riga.

The ninth fort in Kaunas

These photos are from the ninth fort.  It was one of the forts around Kaunas that was built for WWI and was then appropriated by the nazis and ultimately used to kill 30,000 Jews.  There was also a daring escape from that place by 64 men who had been assigned the task of burning the bodies as the war wound down so the world would not know what had happened there.
Here are some photos from the area under they fort from which The escape was made, and also the monument constructed there in 1983, I think.

Another cemetery in Kaunas/Kovno

This was the second cemetery we saw today.  Almost in worse shape than the other.  I could not find anything that said Kaner or Karon.  Actually could not find anything even old enough.  But tomorrow I expect to obtain some documents from the Kaunas archives that might have some new genealogy info.

Visiting the synagogue and the cemetery in Kaunas

The synagogue was built in 1871 so it is possible that some Kaners and Karons attended services there.
The old headstones are all lying down or overgrown and not possible to read.