Howdy Partners and Buckaroos... Welcome back to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4
In Utah, the Days of '47 are starting. This was 1847 when the first Mormon pioneers came into the state with the great handcart movement. The celebration is huge in Utah with fireworks, rodeos, picnics, fairs and all manner of things. In America everyone, including the American Indians are immigrants having come from elsewhere, such as Mongolia, as well. There really are no "native" Americans at all! Let's talk about pioneering. When we think Pioneer we think the Old West.. but the Pilgrims were pioneers. The Spanish were pioneers too.
1. All our ancestors are pioneers who came to America from someplace else. Where did your people come from?
My family and Mark's family came from the Czech Republic, which at the time was Czechoslovakia. Historically known as Bohemia. I am 100% Bohemian.
2. Do you know when and why they came to America?
No I do not know those details.
4. Do you enjoy Western movies or TV programs? They don't make many now but there are re-runs available? Which do you watch?
I don't mind watching a Western movie. There have been so many excellent ones made. I definitely enjoy Clint Eastwood Westerns. Mark is a big fan and he has been enjoying a channel on TV which is showing old Western movies.
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That is where my grandparents came from. My father was Slovak and my mother had a German father and an Irish mother.
Westerns are my thing and were from the time I was a tiny girl. My dad was a Western fan, he loved the old west movies, i watched the tv shows Wagon Train, The Rifleman, Big Valley, Bonanza in my younger years. The Westerns they make now are unwatchable to me. but I love the ones they made in the 80's and 90.
every one came from somewhere else, the American natives came from Siberia and Asian by walking across to Alaska. but that was many thousands of years ago. I consider anyone born in America a native American.
I don't know why I didn't know you were 100% Bohemian, Debby. I know you cook/bake some of their foods but didn't realize that was your ethnicity. Learned something new today! I'm not much into Westerns but one of the people who reads my blogs enjoys Western books so I told them I would read a Western sometime this year for my reading challenge and am currently reading one. Not far into it yet, but enjoying it. Hubby is like Mark, he likes Westerns too. I do agree about Clint Eastwood movies. It amazes me how he can still act and direct at his age of 90(s).
betty
I enjoyed your answers today Debby. I like Clint Eastwood too, but I think my favorite Western movies would be any with John Wayne! I hope you have a really great day.
I think anyone who moves from Illinois (or anywhere east of CA) to California to be a true pioneer! That had to take a lot of faith and courage to leave loved ones behind and move to a totally new "culture" in CA. I guess I should pay more attention to your recipes when you post them. The "Bohemian" culture/style seems to be very much "in vogue" these days! I can imagine that your recipes would be very good and interesting! I enjoyed reading about this. Thank you for sharing!!
My daddy's hero used to be John Wayne. Every weekend he'd be asleep on the couch in the tv room, "watching" a John Wayne western. *lol* Such good memories! ~Andrea xoxo
This is going to be an interesting post to follow with everyone who participates. I love that you are a true Bohemian!
Hubby and my roots are from Scandinavia. Not sure when they came here but I'm sure wars and oppression had a lot to do with it.
Going back into the work force after 30 years of being a homemaker was like being a pioneer.
Love westerns and I love the book The Virginian...
As a young kid I pretended I was a cowgirl.
Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger
Sue
What you said about moving to California might well have come out of my Tom's mouth. His daughter and son were so small when they left Chicago for Arizona, they've little to no memories of that large extended family. Once upon a time I desperately wanted to be a cowgirl; so glad that didn't work out. LOL
Westerns --- Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassiday, The Cisco Kid come to mind. Especially Roy Rogers when I was a kid.
My grandpa was from Slovakia.
My hometown, Phillips, Wisconsin, has/had a Czechoslovakia Fest. :-)
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