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SUMMARY OF THE
SUMMER ISSUE
Volume 9, No. 2, Summer 2001
Slovak
Heritage Live
A Newsletter of the
Slovak Heritage and Cultural Society of British Columbia
published four times a year
Summer issue was published in early
June 2001 and it was mailed to 1500 recipients world wide.
Orava's castle
FROM THE EDITOR
I
have been to Slovakia twice this year and you can read about my trips in
my travelogue on following pages.
Soon
the summer will be here and I am sure many of you will travel to
Slovakia. Remember the gas is over 33.00 SK per liter, which is roughly
about 70 cents depending on the exchange rate. Prices for most groceries
are about the same as in USA or in Canada. Relative still inexpensive for
North American visitors and real bargain against other countries of
Western Europe. Food in restaurants is still a bargain, but be careful,
they charge extra for everything. Prices posted for the main course meal
are prices for the meat, and then there are extras for vegetable garnish,
rice, potatoes, fries and even extras for the ketchup, tartar sauce,
mayonnaise, etc....
FROM THE MAIL BAG
Read the correspondence received from our members...
MY SPRING 2001 TRIP
TO SLOVAKIA
My
spring 2001 Slovakia trip started on March 10. This time I was able to
list for a flight through a family member that works for Air Canada as a
stand by for CAD$150.00 a deal too good to pass. Well here it is how it
went:
When
you fly as a partner, you can’t plan too far ahead. As it was
getting closer to my tentative departure I found out that all
flights are extremely overbooked due to the seat sale. I wanted to
fly through Calgary to Frankfurt and I was told that I might have
better chance by flying through Toronto. I booked a car in
Frankfurt, which is non-refundable. My flight was to leave at 8:30
AM. There was an all Canada, Air Canada computer melt down and this
resulted in colossal mix-ups and delays. First flight was delayed
and filled to the last chair and I stayed behind. Second flight was
leaving two hours later and I was taken to the plane’s doors to
see if there would be a seat left for me. Well there wasn’t. So I
waited for the third plane due to depart 11:30. Of course by these
delays even if I got on the next plane I would have missed the
flight to Frankfurt and God only knows if and when I get there. As I
had plenty of time now, I started to think about the air travel...
HOG KILLING IN LIPTOVSKA TEPLICKA
By: Marcela Smolarova
Hog
killing in Liptovska Teplicka is an age long tradition that takes
place usually in winter before Christmas or early spring before
Easter. Most of the families in Liptovska Teplicka bread at least
two pigs. This is due to the fact that until recently there were no
fridges or freezers and it was very difficult to store the meat due
to the heat and the flying insects.
Hog-killing usually takes place early Saturday morning with help of
several family members. Some members of the family are able to kill
the pig and process the meat by themselves. The ones that can’t do
this call the butcher or someone more skilful from the family.
The
whole process starts with boiling water in a cauldron. When the hot
water that is needed for the meat processing is boiling the hog
killing may proceed. After the kill that is performed by a special
gun the pig is let to bleed and the blood is captured to a bowl to
be used later to make blood sausage. After the bleeding the pig is
put into a wooden manger and boiling water is poured over it...
VERONIKA
GOLIANOVA
Detva's
embroider, organizer of folk art manufacturing and folklore
movement, collector.
Veronika
Golianova,
nee. Vidiecanova
was born as the last child in family of seven siblings. She grew in
very modest relations, but she got from her family value for beauty,
aesthetics, and endurance, with which she was able to found and
create beauty. Her mother used to do embroidery and weaving, but her
father’s cousin, aunt Majdakova, introduced the real mystery of
Detva's embroidery to her. As nine-year-old girl she first embroiled
a towel. For her first shoulder sleeve her mother had to sell a
geese so she could buy for her the material for the embroidery
called sifon...
NATIONAL
BREED SLOVAK CUVAC
Slovakia
is a country where cynology, or breeding and training of dogs as a
hobby is on very high level and it is achieving international
recognition. It contributed four breeds to the world gene fond of
dog breeds. Three of them are having the name of the country also in
their name. They are:
Slovak
Cuvac, Slovak kopov, Slovak brown fur stander. The fourth breed got
the name after the former country of Czechs and Slovaks Czechoslovak
wolf-dog...
ORAVA'S
CASTLE
Orava
belongs to one of the most typical natural and historical regions of
Slovakia. Its territory was inhabited as early as in Primeval Age. A
few solitary findings originate from Late Stone Age and from the
Early Bronze Age. More extensive inhabitation of the region goes
back to the Late Bronze Age. In this era, in place of the today’s
Middle and Lower Castles an elevated settlement was founded. Its
inhabitant’s-the people of “Lusitian urn fields”-(1100-400)
fortified it with walls of wood and earth.
In
younger Hallstatt era the elevated castle cliff belonged to the
important Hallstatt settlements, and in the era of fortified
homesteads the place was inhabited by Slavonic people...
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SULOV
CASTLE
Sulov
castle was built in first third of the 15th century. By it's size,
the castle was very small. Its main function was to protect and
watching near by road. It is really hard to get to it through forest
trail. One can say the castle is like eagles nest...
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