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had been believed, even among
many Gypsies themselves, that
their origins were in Egypt, hence
their Gypsy name, which was
derived from the earlier English
designation ‘Gypcian, shortened
from Egyptian.’
"It’s still somewhat of a
mystery,” Hancock observes.
“There’s no real recollection
within the Gypsy community,
nothing handed down even orally ”
Scholars have traced their roots to
India chiefly through their Romani
language, which is skin to the
classical Old Indie literary
language, Sanskrit.
Ancient inscriptions place
Gypsies in central India about 280
B.C. “That’s about as far back as
we can go with any certainty,”
Hancock says. The Gypsies'
predominantly dark skin and hair
and their tradition of “marime,”
or taboos, also point to an Indian
ancestry.
Their long westward wanderings
did not begin until about 1,000
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years later from northwestern
India. Why the Gypsies left India is
still uncertain.
Because of language variations,
most scholars conclude there was
not one mass exodus, but perhaps
as many as three separate
migrations, moving in different
directions, from about A.D. 800 to
1000. The record of early Gypsy
wanderings is confused, but some
of the first groups did settle in
Persia and Syria, and later in
Anatolia, or Asia Manor.
The conquering Ottoman Turks
swept the Gypsies into the Balkan
Peninsula early in the 14th cen
tury. Some groups were enslaved,
but others journeyed farther
across Western Europe, arriving
in Germany by 1407, in Russia and
the British Isles about 100 years
later. Gypsies who reached Spain
in the mid-15th century may have
crossed from North Africa, and
may have been one group that did
pass through Egypt.
In Europe, Gypsies were
eventually treated as outcasts,
hounded and persecuted for
centuries, banished from some
countries, even put to death by
hanging.
should begin by early next year,
announced Dr. Frank L. Bentz,
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affairs.
The 4-H headquarters will be
located at the intersection of
Metzerott Road and University
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Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
I’d like to share with you some
entries from a farm girl’s diary.
They were written m 1910 and 1913.
Life was different then as you can
surmise from this notation
“ Clarence’s 17 hens laid 16 eggs.”
She says the Uncle Harry Engle
brought a new separator to their
farm. For those who might not
understand, this was a machine
that separated the cream from the
milk. I well remember the noisy
one that my Grandmother
Shremer had in her back kitchen.
One March day in 1910 they
churned 35 pounds of butter.
This farm eirl’s father clerked
Blvd. This will be adjacent to the
site of the University’s proposed
Veterinary Science and Research
Center.
In addition to acting as a central
meeting place for club members,
the building also will serve as a
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sales in the winter and when spring
came the men filled the lime kiln
and the next day started the fire.
Here again, maybe some ex
planation is necessary. The kiln is
a great outdoor “oven” built into a
hillside. In it was placed raw
limestone on a large pile of wood.
This was then covered with clay
and set afire. The temperature had
to reach 850 to 1000 degrees Cen
tigrade. The lump lime that was
produced was spread on the fields
to make them more productive.
On May 9th they planted
tomatoes and then on May 11th
there was ice on the water trough
training facility for the 4,000 adult
volunteers who help 4-H’ers learn
about animal sciences, hor
ticulture, nutrition and health.
Though originally designed as an
informal education program for
farm youth, 4-H today draws
almost two-thirds of its mem
bership from Maryland cities and
suburbs. Open to young people
between the ages of 8 and 18,4-H is
a youth program of The University
of Maryland Cooperative Ex
tension Service.
Financial support for the new
building came from the Maryland
General Assembly, which voted
during the 1985 legislative session
to set aside $525,000 for con
struction costs.
“The state legislature realizes
that 4-H plays a tremendous role in
helping Maryland’s young people
leam new skills and become
responsible adults,” says
Maryland Delegate Pauline Menes
(D-21st), who introduced the
funding legislation. “We’re sure
that the tax dollars we’ve invested
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used for the horses. I’ll bet the
tomato plants looked sad. That
spring of 1913 it was necessary to
close the school because of g
measles epidemic. Two of her
brothers were teaching school and
another took an examination to go,
to high school.
In the summer they traveled to ‘
New York City where a brother
was enrolled in Columbia!
University. They toured the town
and then took a boat trip up thej
Hudson River to visit an uncle and*
aunt near Albany.
In the fall they boiled 20 crocks of
pear butter and put beets, turnips,
carrots, parsnips, radishes and
salsify in the root cellar. It was
their replacement for our freezers.
That November Jonas Nissley
came to “smell water.” I’m sure;
this rather odd entry meant that!
they needed a new well and he ;
would try to tell them the besti
place to dig.
In December they baked fruit
cakes and a brother came home
from Penn State. Also a sister and
her classmates, from Millersville
Normal School, came for a meal
They had a big family to gather
together for Christmas.
m 4-H will yield a significant
return.”
Other key supporters of the state
headquarters included delegates
Timothy F. Maloney (D-21st) and
Thomas J. Mooney (D-21st);
delegate Clayton Mitchell,
chairman of the Appropriations
Committee; and senators B.W.
Mike Donovan (D-25th) and
Thomas Miller, Jr. (D-27th.)
“The state’s support of 4-H could
not have come at a more opportune
time,” says Grove Miller,
president of the 4-H Foundation, a
private, fund-raising organization
that supports 4-H. “Our volunteer
enrollment is on the rise. We are
reaching a more diverse group of
young people. The time for a
central headquarter is now.”
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