FW: [Cz-L] Silence is golden

Hello all,

I have been part of the silent majority for some time - ten years if not
more. For me, participating is strange. My connection to Czernowitz is
my maternal g-greatgrandfather, Elias Trichter who in 1891 at the age of
10 left Czernowitz for New York City along with his mother Scheindel and
brother Jonas. They went in search of my gg-grandfather Schmuel Hirsch
Trichter.

Family lore, which I knew nothing of till I started the family research,
had Schmuel scalped by indians in the US Midwest. Turns out he was a
peddler who died during a sand storm near Salt Lake City, stripped of his
flesh by coyotes. His identification was made by papers and clothing found
on his body. This I found in a newspaper article from the Salt Lake
Herald dated 1897. But I digress.

There is no "recent" connection for me to Czernowitz. I have no memories
of the city. The pictures and stories I read, though entertaining and
enlightening, do not bring back memories. They do however help to see
what life was like.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts and have since
move to West Palm Beach, Florida. For me, my nostalgia is for my home,
Boston. Nothing, in my mind, compares to it.

Occasionally I will open an email from Hardy about a picture of
Czernowtiz, such as Ringplatz (wherever that is) in snow and be reminded
of Boston. This I guess is what most of you relate to. Memories of what
was.

In my research, I have come across Trichters from the US and Canada as
well as Australia and Europe. This is reflective of the Czernowitz group.
You are a diverse group of people who bring your different ideas and
personalities of how things should be and how they used to be. Watching
the progression of the Bukovina Cookbook was very interesting. Seeing how
you handled the city's recognition of Traian Popovici was an eye opener.
The website is amazing. Cleaning and maintaining the cemetery was a great
undertaking. It is these which keep me here. It is this which keeps me
connected to my past, however distant it may be.

>From the silent majority, thanks for being who you are,

John Epstein
Jupiter FL.

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