The connection of American or Canadian Slovaks with the “old country” was very strong in the first decades of separation. Emigrants or pendlers for work, missed their home, family, friends, culture, customs, or food. They tried to recall home as much as possible.
To this day, the bond between our own in North America and the land of their fathers is very strong. In Kasigarda, we witnessed strong emotional experiences from the visits of American or Canadian Slovaks who came to visit Slovakia. That is why we decided to set up a place that would strengthen this strong relationship and symbolically represent it.
We established the Slovak American Heritage Garden to symbolize the richness of the relationship between Central Europe and North America. The old varieties of fruit trees planted in honour of our emigrating ancestors, the Eugene Cernan ŤahyŇASA Observatory, the barn with historic machinery brought by our grandfathers from America and the historic beehive strongly point to this bond.
