Lithuania

Elaine Luschas wanted to give her three daughters something close to home – Margučiai. It’s a Lithuanian egg etching technique that relies on five tools: an egg, needle, pencil, dye and a pairing or pocket knife.

As a teenager at the turn of the 20th century, Casimira Kaupas was smuggled out of Lithuania under a tarp and potatoes to Northeast Pennsylvania. She spent four years in Scranton, which led her on a path to a religious life. Kaupas became Mother Maria and now, 84 years after her death in Chicago, the once curious Lithuanian teen is on her way to Catholic sainthood.