Destination : Central Europe -- Discovery in Buda -- Back home -- Living with a mystery -- Hunting and pecking -- Translating -- Magyar beauty -- Eötvös -- An era of war -- Incubating -- Planning our return -- Scoping out the problem -- Forging ties -- Back in Budapest -- The ancient city of Pécs -- All aboard to Várad -- Várad shower -- Kopjafa, the carved biography -- Earthquake, fire, and flood -- The Black Eagle -- The art colony -- New York city -- The Hungarian language -- The Hungarian culture -- New Year new options -- Searching the archives in Szolnok -- Winter time -- Life goes on -- The genealogist -- Closing in on things -- Vienna in a new light -- Heading to the outskirts of a former empire -- Novska -- More traveling -- Finding Amálka -- Addendums. The Morgan Library ; Poetry snippets ; An American Kremšnita.