A Hungarian dance group will be at this years Donauschwaben Treffen in Milwaukee over Labor Day and as always DS dance groups from all over North America will be dancing also. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app: mail.mobile.aol.com On Friday, February 22, 2019 Dolores Brooks <donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com> wrote: In addition to Lori’s question about the music, I am wondering about the folk dances the villagers did. I have been doing folk dancing for years and have come across many dances from the Balkans but have always wondered if the Donauschwaben danced these dances or brought their own dances from their original villages in Germany. And if so, what were these dances? I have asked these questions of instructors who specialize in the folk dances of Romania, Croatia, and Serbia but none seem to know the answer. Thanks for any insights. Dolores Sent from my iPad > On Feb 22, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Lori Straus <loristraus@loristraus.com> wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > I’m working on the final draft of novel 3 and have a few practical questions. (I’m still trying to wrap my brain around life without indoor plumbing and electricity.) These all pertain to 1920 in the formerly Hungarian, now Romanian part of the Banat. > > > I know that once families started buying Vespas (basically ranges), they had a compartment where they could keep water warm. But before that, when families still had a lime-painted brick oven and some sort of stove on top of it, did they get water just from the well as they needed it? Or would they have brought a good amount in in the morning so it could warm up inside the house throughout the day? > Did they preserve peppers? I’m just trying to figure how if goulash was possible in the winter. It feels like a dumb question, but peppers didn’t come from Africa in those days. > What kind of music would have been popular in the villages? What’s played now during our local German hour is for the generation born after 1920, so I don’t know what the village bands would’ve played IN 1920. > > > And does anyone know when electricity, indoor plumbing, floor boards, and telephones finally moved into the Romanian villages? > > > > Regards, > > > > Lori Straus > > Author of Between Worlds: A new YA series about the DS and their descendants (published under Lori Wolf-Heffner) > > Gara: Heffner, Wagner, Brandt > > Ridjica/Stanisitsch: Wagner, Zimmermann, Fleckstein > > Semlak: Wolf, Bartolf > > Schöndorf: Bortscher, Klein > > www.loriwolfheffner.com > > Speak fluent German > > > > Professional Writers’ Association of Canada, professional member > > Literary Translators’ Association of Canada, associate member > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/donauschwaben-villages@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community