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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Carney, Ellen |
| Title, Analytic | From Here to There: Memoirs of a Swiss Childhood |
| Journal Title | Swiss American Historical Society Review |
| Date of Publication | Nov. 2005 |
| Volume ID | 41 |
| Issue ID | 3 |
| Location in Work | 7-34, ill. |
| ISSN | 0883-4814 |
| Abstract | Describes first of August festivities (Ruetlischwur, the oath on the meadow Ruetli), Sunntigsjass (Sunday's card game), Milchma (the milkman), spring in Zurich, Santa Claus, Woesch (laundry), Schuelsylveschter (last day of school prior to the Christmas break), school in the '30s, buying shoes before World War II, Fahrt ins Gruene (overland excursion), winter and winter activities, and Wienacht (Christmas celebration starting December 24). |
| Notes | About the author: Ellen Carney was born in Zurich to an Aargauer mother and a Zurich-reared German father. She finished gymnasium, arrived in the United States after World War II, married and spent 30 years in an intentional (utopian) community started by Quaker pacifists. . . . She now lives near the tip of Long Island, New York. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Switzerland/ Christmas/ Social life and customs |