LL-L "Holidays" 2005.03.25 (01) [ELS]

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From: R. F. Hahn <lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net>
Subject: Holidays

Dear Lowlanders,

To all of you who celebrate it, here are best Easter greetings to you on
behalf of the entire Lowlands-L family.

Welcome to those of you who joined us today, from Idaho (US) and
Mauritius.  I will mention the places of all newcomers in my next
administrative message, probably on the first day of April.

I am currently out of town, in California.  For this reason, LL-L
installments will arrive on your screens a bit less regularly until my
return to my Seattle computer on March 30.  Please bear with me.  This
also goes for those of you who kindly wrote to me privately.  I received a
whole bag full of messages, many pertaining to our anniversary project.
Please be patient with me.  If I don't respond right away, it's definitely
not for lack of interest or appreciation but because I'm having my hands
full at the moment.

Please keep working on the anniversary project.  More personal
introductions and story translations are always needed.  Please send them
to me, and I'll process and forward them to Mathieu and Henry for final
masterful touches.

A happy spring or autumn season to all of you if you are in distinctive
season areas of the northern or southern hemispheres, and pleasant weather
also to those of you who live in close vicinity of the equator!

Regards,
Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn
Founder & Administrator, Lowlands-L
(www.)lowlands-l.net
lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: Holidays

Nou de Paosche weer voer de doere steet, heb ik ene vraoge an de andere
Leeglanders:
Hyr in Oost- en Noord-Nederland besteet et gebruyk van de so geheten
paoschvuyre of paoschbülten. In den Ächterhook, Twente, Salland en Drenthe
gaddert de loe sik ümme grote barge van old holt en ander ofval en stekket
se an as et aovends duyster wörd. Et heel darp geet der ümme to staon.
Besteet dat gebruyk ok in andere, voeral Nedersassische gebede in Pruysse?
Ingmar, den vrogger as kleyne junge unmündig kun geneten biy de warmte en
sfeer vant paoschvuyr...

Now that Easter is coming soon I have a question for the other Lowlanders:
Here in the Eastern and Northern Netherlands we know the so-called Easter
fires or Easter heaps. In Achterhoek, Twente, Salland and Drenthe people
come together around big piles of old wood and other waste and light them
if darkness falls in at night. The whole village community gathers around
it. Does this tradition exist in other, especially Low Saxon areas of
Germany, too?

Ingmar, who really enjoyed the warmth and atmosphere of the Easter fire
as a young lad

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