Fw: [Cz-L] Games

[Message below is from Mariana Gavriliu <mariana.gavriliu_at_gmail.com>.]

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From: Mariana Gavriliu
To: HARDY BREIER
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Games

Dear Hardy,

the 'Ketcha Doma' that you described was the most popular game I played as a
child in Petrila, a little coal mining town in Romania (south of
Transylvania), in the 60's. We called it Katcha (in our minds written, of
course, cacica, the Romanian spelling :-) ). There is a little addition to
your desctiption of the rules: at the beginning of the game, the pointed
piece of wood was put on top of a rectangular hole (1-2 inches wide, 5
inches long, 1 inch deep), and it was thrown in the air from underneath with
the batter. The opponent team then used the method that you described to
send it back towards the hole.

And since I'm here writing my first message to the group (I read you every
day, of course), I will briefly introduce myself: my name is Mariana
Gavriliu, I live in Mississauga (a Toronto suburb) since 1989, when I
immigrated to Canada from Bucharest. I'm a (very happy! :-) ) high school
math teacher now, after being a research chemist for a long time, and have
two children that are in university. I'm not Jewish, but my father's family
origins are in Czernowitz too, my grandfather immigrated to Romania at the
beginning of the last century. After finding from Daniel, another member of
the group, about its existence, I joined you, and although hard to explain
why, I feel that this is a place where I belong too.

Thank you all for making Czernowitz alive for all of us that have never seen
this town where there are faded footprints of our ancestors,

Mariana

PS. My grandfather's name is Gheorghe Maximciuc, he was born in Czernowitz
in a poor family, fought in WWI, then married my grandmother in Vulcan,
Valea Jiului, Hunedoara department, where he lived all his life. He never
went back home, as at first he had no money to do it, and later travel
during the communist era was out of question. I know he had siblings that
remained in Czernowitz, but I have never been in contact with any of them,
and do not know any details about the family, since both my grandfather and
my father died when I was too young to ask about all these. I do not have
high hopes that anybody here knows anything about my family (I have no idea
where they lived in Czernowitz), but who knows?...

2009/11/26 HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>

Two more games come to my mind , I dont know if they are exclusivly
Czernowitzer:
1. Stollen (German)- these are horseshoe studs . As horses were present on
all streets the cobblestones
  caused the 2 big horseshoe studs to break off . We used to collect them
and play them.
  You tossed them up and made them land on the back of your hand .
   Played on every street corner.
2. "Ketchka Doma" . This is ukrainean and probably a local game .
   The "Ketchka" was a piece of wood pointed at both ends , abt 3 inches
long .
   By hitting down at one of these ends with a batter ,the peg would fly
up -
  Now in mid -air you had to hit it with the batter driving it " home" as
far you could.
   Home in Ukrainean is Dom and so the game was called "Ketchka Doma ".
   Sometimes the game ended by using the batter in settling disputes.
Hardy
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