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Skriven 2015-02-07 17:02:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: cook books
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 02-03-15  21:14 <=-

 NB>>> I've seen that lots of places we've been...  Richard has only
 NB>>> lived in NYS, although in various parts thereof... :)
 RH>> Did he ever live in the Catskills?
 NB>> No... he was born in Elmira, and the family moved to North Syracuse
 NB>> when he was young.  He spent a lot of summer days up in the
 NB>> Adirondacks, either at boy scout camp (Massaweepie [(sp?) only
 NB>> mostly heard it said, not seen it written]) or at the Pond...

 RH> Probably Don would know of it; he's an inspector for Boy Scout camps
 RH> and has mentioned doing one in the Adarondacks.

Probably.  I slightly misspoke there... Richard's Boy Scout camp was
Sabattis, while Massawepie (I was close on the spelling) was the camp
for the scout troops here in the Rochester area... I was looking at a
new Gazetteer I just got for NYS, and got my memory joggled... ;)

 RH>> Did your parents ever acquire a taste for local foods and add them
 RH>> to their home cooking or did you wait until you got out on your own
 RH>> to try new foods?
 NB>> There was always some trying out of local foods... after all,
 NB>> that's how we discovered that we ALL (even Daddy) hated hominy, no
 NB>> matter how Mommy tried to fix it... ;)

 RH> OTOH, my parents pretty much stayed with old familiar things, even
 RH> when they traveled. In Germany, a lot of the cooking there was close
 RH> enough to what Mom did (meat and potatoes) that it was familiar. When
 RH> we were in the southwest, they didn't want to try the local Mexican
 RH> or Tex-Mex cooking.

My parents were game to try new things... they hadn't had much of
Chinese cooking other than the infamous LaChoy (a childhood staple
"special"), but were willing to go to Yang's with us, and later, to
Asian buffets with us...  But they prefered to go to Olde Country... ;)

 RH>> We assimilated parts--some words have entered our vocabulary that
 RH>> we picked up in various assignments. Also, as you know, various
 RH>> local foods are now part of our regular eating. I don't think Steve
 RH>> picked up any sort of accent but I have more of a southern one. I
 RH>> didn't realise how much of one I had until we were in HI and I was
 RH>> questioned about it. (G)
 NB>> The whole four years we lived in Mississippi, we were teased about
 NB>> our Yankee accents... we moved up to Philly, and were immediately
 NB>> teased about our southern accents...  ;)  One just can't win... (G)

 RH> But how long did it take you to shed the accent? (G) We'd not lived in
 RH> NC for 18 years when we moved to HI.

I don't think I shed the accent at all.. I only picked up bits of
various ones here and there, so wherever I went, I've never quite had
the accent of the area... nor, really, of anywhere else in particular...
I'll pick up speech patterns and vocabulary from wherever, whoever, and
let them slip away as others come to the forefront... 
 
 NB>>> with Mom... we could put our heads together to solve the genie
 NB>>> puzzles, too...
 RH>> That must have been fun as you were working on the same family
 RH>> for the most part. I presume you did some research on your birth
 RH>> family while on some of the trips with your MIL, but mostly they
 RH>> were Backus family research?
 NB>> Mostly she was along on my trips, helping me find my family info.
 NB>> She'd done most of her family already by the time we were doing our
 NB>> trips together, and the Backus genealogy had been done by a distant
 NB>> cousin who got info from as many Backus descendants as he could,
 NB>> including Richard's Grampa... :)  Mom did do some on Grams' family,
 NB>> but again, I think that was mostly done by the time we went on our
 NB>> trips.  There was some searching for cemetaries for her people when
 NB>> we were up at the Pond, as one branch of hers was up in St. Lawrence
 NB>> County...  If there happened to be some research she could do on her
 NB>> family when we were in an area for mine, of course we'd work on that
 NB>> together, too... :)

 RH> Along for the ride and any incidental information she could come
 RH> across. 

Pretty much... and to give me research tips along the way from her own
experiences...  ;)

 NB>> The first trip we did together, she had decided that she wanted to
 NB>> teach me how to do on-site research, so off we went to central PA,
 NB>> to courthouses, cemetaries, libraries, churches and all... and she
 NB>> did a one-on-one workshop, basically...  ;)

 RH> Where in central PA? Must have been fun learning about the family
 RH> that way.

Primarily Centre County, with a little in Huntingdon and Franklin
Counties, that first trip... also a bit in Harrisburg as the state
capitol.  And indeed it was fun... for her, too, as I stumbled into
some lovely troves of information... ;)  She was quite envious of my
beginner's luck... ;)

ttyl         neb

... "Eating Radium has strange results," Tom said brightly.

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