Eriks Zachs
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The trees, bushes and flowers
Could you tell me what flowers and ornamental trees and bushes were grown on a Latgalian farmstead?
I can tell you only about the plants that grew in my home farmstead. Flowers and flower gardens …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
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Products in Latgale
In former times and, maybe, also nowadays, in Latgale people most often… buy a lot in shops, but they also grow a lot themselves. They cook themselves, too; therefore they have such self-grown …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
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What dishes were made on a farmstead?
On the farmstead where I used to live, dishes were usually made from those foodstuffs that were grown – from the garden, from the live-stock, those that we grew ourselves, as well as bought …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
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About the tapping birch sap
In Latgale, and maybe also in Latvia, there is such an unusual thing for the world as tapping birch sap and maple sap and their preservation – so that they could be used for consumption for, …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
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Have you happened to go, or see, experience going mumming? What do you know about mummers, going mumming?
Yes, about going mumming, that, of course, could be read about in various Latvian writers’ works – Jaunsudrabiņš’ or Birznieks-Upītis’, I won’t remember exactly, …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
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The strong alcohol
Do you know and could you tell me how was homemade strong alcohol made in Latgale in former times?
I can tell you how my parents made it at home. Homemade strong alcohol was cheaper that the one …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
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Could you tell me how cheese was made in the countryside?
Here in Latgale, two kinds of cheese were made in those times. One was the simple salted curd cheese, which my mother, as well as my father’s godmother, who was by father’s sister, made. …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
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What could you tell me about celebrating Līgo [Midsummer night festivities]?
I live in Ančupāni, Rēzekne district. I was born in 1964. In the second half of the seventies, Līgo was usually celebrated at the neighbours’. I live in Hill Ančupāni, the neighbours’, …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
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What are the most vivid memories from what has been told to you by your father, grandfather, other senior people?
I remember my father’s stories that are related to the Latvian writer Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš. My father attended Sološnieki school, which was located in our former family house. …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
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Maybe you remember something else that older people have told you?
Older people, who are my father, his god-mother or my father’s father’s sister have told me and also my father’s sisters and other relatives from my father’s side have told me …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
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