'I went back (to the Czech Republic) in 1990 and found the first painting.' He kept collecting from there, and now owns about 120 pieces of Uprka's art.

Grmela, whose great-grandparents moved to the U.S. from the Moravia region of the Czech Republic forty-five years ago, helped launch WestFest, the town’s yearly Czech celebration.

First of all, the Czech Republic was cheaper. “My construction costs in the Czech Republic are two-thirds of what they’d be in the U.K.,” Burton says.

In the Czech Republic, “there are lots of subterranean basements with vaulted ceilings, monasteries, churches, and an endless supply of castles open to the public,” says “Musketeers ...