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A Remembrance of the Past; Building for the Future." ~ Eve Eckert Koehler



Remembering Our Danube Swabian Ancestors
     
 

Threshing

by Dr. Viktor Pratscher
Translated by Brad
Schwebler

     On the occasion of the completion of the threshing work the workers went singing through the village pulling their threshing machine decorated with flowers.  There was no special harvest festival.  The cold midday meal in the vineyard tasted excellent.  The effect of the many grapes and cider first comes later.  Instead of the former stomping on the grapes (Treten (Trippeln), today these are ground and pressed.     

[Published at DVHH.org 2004 by Jody McKim Pharr]