© Slovak Post, 2007 Terézia Vansová – this creative woman, active in public life, who helped create the cultural and social life of Slovakia at the close of the 19th century, was born in 1857 to the family of the nationally-conscious protestant priest Samuel Medvecký. She attended school in her hometown of Zvolenská Slatina, as well as Banská Bystrica, and Rimavská Sobota. The years she spent in Lomnička and later in Rimavská Píla, her new homes after her marriage to Ján Vansa – a protestant priest – were the background to the realistic memoirs of life in village schools and vicarages...