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Podpora Wednesday, August 3, 2011
BENEVOLENCE
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Concho Valley CHS to meet August 14
The Concho Valley Chapter of the Czech Heritage Society will meet Sunday, August 14, 2011, at 2 p.m. at the SPJST Lodge 49, Rowena Hall in Rowena, Texas. A PowerPoint program will be presented by Patrick Sparks on “Saving Texas Dance Halls.” The meeting is open to the public, and all visitors are welcomed. Svacina will be served. Submitted by, Beverly Teplicek Lodge 49, Rowena —SPJST—
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Cukrárna (roughly pronounced “sookrarna”) - from the word cukr, meaning sugar - is a shop that sells sweets, cakes, pastries, and ice-cream to take home or eat on the premises along with coffee, tea, and other hot
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August 9 - 13 Czech Heritage Museum and Genealogy Center “Czech Feszt for Kids” (rescheduled)—at Third Street and French Avenue, Temple, Texas: crafts, Czech festival foods, “movement” sessions/music, games, stories, family research, and more. Friday evening culmination of weekʼs activities. For information, registration/cost, call CHMGC (254) 899-2935. Camp underwritten by Federation of Womenʼs Clubs of Temple. Submitted by Sandi Wicker,
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and cold drinks, including alcohol. They are the sweet centre of town. Every parent, having been a child once, often takes their children to the cukrárna with joy, a touch of nostalgia, and maybe even a guilty feeling that they are doing something that doesn’t really comply with everyday standards, that it’s a moment which is fundamental to everyone’s life; yet, it is stolen from the “more serious” things that we adults have to deal with, and that it’s also a special occasion because you just don’t go to the cukrárna every day. It would even be part of a kind of social standard and festive Sunday afternoon – a walk or a visit and then: with a meaningful smile, off to the cukrárna. And there, among the cakes, icecream, and all kinds of other delights, you suddenly find yourself in an incomparable world completely cut off from the noise of cars and trams, the bustle and worries of life. Once the door closes behind you and you are embraced by the sweet, familiar aroma of coffee and cakes, you forget that any world outside still exists. On the contrary, the world of the cukrárna is the one that exists “through the looking-glass.”
Czech Cultural Calendar
August 6, 7 Heart of the Tin Trunk—at International Festival Institute in Round Top, Texas: Original play is based on writings by Virginia Leech, La Grange native. For information, call (979) 250-1843; or visit www.heartofthetintrunk.com.
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CHMGC Executive Director, Lodge 80, Holland.
August 15 Submission Deadline - České Stopy Fall 2011 Issue: Early Texas Czech Settlements—places which were once considered thriving “Czech Settlements” are no longer. We want to make sure the history of those areas where our ancestors settled upon arriving in the United States are recorded so we ask for your help. Send information pertaining to early Texas Czech settlements for České Stopy to: Charlene Hurta via email fhurta@brazosport.edu. České Stopy is mailed quarterly to members of Texas Czech Genealogical Society (TCGS). To join or for information, call (254) 778-7285; or visit www.txczgs.org.
A Glimpse at the History of the Cukrárna. The sale of sweet treats was not unknown in Prague either. In the first half of the 1770s, there were already four coffee-shops where it was possible to sit and enjoy cakes and other delights. Another place of renown was Růžodol in Karlín, a building with a garden offering a pub, coffee-shop, confectioner’s and delicatessen as well as a skittles alley and dance hall. At the turn of the century and beginning of the 20th century, the sweet temptation spread much further: As early as 1910 František Myšák opened the legendary cukrárna on Vodičková street. Two years later, a coffee-shop (with confectionary) is opened in the cubist style House of the Black Madonna, followed by the Berger cukrárna, also on Vodičková, a cukrárna and coffee-shop in the Juliš hotel on Václavské náměstí — Wenceslas Square, or the Erhardtova cukrárna opened in 1937 on Milada Horáková street, among many others. Sweet foods were also eaten in many hotels — Paris Hotel, Savoy — and coffee-shops — Korso, Imperial, Slavia.
Texas Czech Genealogical Society Website: txczgs.org
Promoting the study of the genealogy of the particular group of people known as “Texas Czechs”
For membership: Merlene Bravenec (254) 778-7285
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Vodičková street was evidently inclined towards cukrárnas, as the first fruit-cukrárna to open in Prague, selling sorbet ice-cream, also came into existence here, in the Světozor arcade. To this day, it remains one of the most frequented locations. Several others among those most famous places have been, or will be, re-opened. Some have disappeared completely, to be replaced by other, perhaps smaller, but usually no less welcoming establishments. http://www.praha.eu/jnp/en/entertainment/arts/cukrarnas_kavarnas/index.html
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