Village of Serbentine

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Joan,

It is too small to warrant mention on the internet. The town of Balbieris^kis only has 1400 people and Serbentine is much smaller. It would be more like a cluster of farms than a village or town as we would know it. My mother's relatives come from a place called Mikalina, which is in the middle of farm and forest lands, marked only by a rusted iron cross where two dirt "roads" (i.e., tracks where cars and carts have worn two ruts in the sand) intersect. There are no businesses, no gas stations, no stores, no church, nothing but farm houses scattered far enough apart as to be unseen from one another, yet it has its own map designation and its own postal address. At one time, it did have a manor house, a remnant of which still stands and is occupied by a young couple. It is built something like an American log cabin.

My guess is that Serbentine is like that.

John Peters



Posted on Jun 20, 2009, 10:26 AM

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