Connie Hampton Connally

Aug 30, 2024 | thebanner.org | Connie Hampton Connally |Cynthia Beach

“Sir!”Hungarian violinist and composer Varga Antal hardly glances back. Why should he care when here in the Budapest Opera House a woman calls to him in a language he doesn’t know? It’s 2007, after all, and she’s a 30-something-year-old American in rumpled jeans. Antal is 78 and prominent. Then she says a name. The name. The one he has refused to say to himself for 62 years. “Varga Sándor.”Sándor? Whom he hasn’t seen since 1945?

Aug 7, 2024 | fireislandnews.com | Rita Plush |Connie Hampton Connally |Shoshanna McCollum

Fire Musicby Connie Hampton ConnallyHistoric Fiction/Coffee Town PressConnie Hampton Connally’s “Fire Music” connects generations, reveals hidden family secrets, and mends broken hearts. Lisa Varga, a modern-day young American, is intrigued when she finds a yellowed sheet of music dated 1944, belonging to her recently deceased grandfather, Sandor.