Street
3110 Howell Branch
Town
Winter Park, FL
Cottages
Five, each named
For
American Slovaks
Čičmiansky Dom
The porch light stayed on.
Čičmany painted its houses so winter could not swallow them. This cottage does the same for memory.
Oravský Zrub
Timber that remembers snow.
A zrub keeps its own weather. Ours keeps soup on the table and quiet in the rooms.
Liptovský Dvojdóm
Two doors. One table.
The Slovak solution to family: enough rooms to disagree, one kitchen to make up.
Goralský Dvor
Highland manners. Florida shade.
The Goral courtyard was for neighbors. This one is for anyone who still answers to a name from the Tatras.