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Lithuanian Bee History of Our National Anthem ‘Mack’ in Mcdonald’S of Springfield Knitting in Lithuania Lithuanian Portraits SUPPLEMENT TO DRAUGAS NEWS SEP / OCT 2015 VOL 3 (S5) In this issue: A Song Fest to Be Remembered Busy As a Lithuanian Bee History of Our National Anthem ‘Mack’ in McDonald’s of Springfield Knitting in Lithuania Lithuanian Portraits Sculpted Beehives These beehives, carved by Teofilis Patiejūnas and Ipolitas Užkurnis, are found at the Lithuanian Museum of Ancient Beekeeping in Stripeikiai. Volume 3, Number S5 Sep / Oct 2015 FEATURES A Song Festival to Be Long-Remembered 6 by Rimas Černius, with photographs by Jonas Kuprys and Arvydas Zabulionis A photo album of some of the memorable performances at the 10th North American Lithuanian Song Festival, including the lyrics, with an English translation, to the “Singing Revolution” cantata. A Day in the Life of a Lithuanian Beekeper 13 by Vereta Rupeikaitė “I eat my peas with honey. I’ve done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny, but it keeps them on the knife!” (Ogden Nash) page 6 History of Lithuania’s National Anthem 16 by Zigmas Tamakauskas Written in 1898 by Vincas Kudirka, the “Tautiška Giesmė” became the official national anthem of Lithuania in 1919, a year after Lithua- nia declared its independence. Who Put the ‘Mack’ in McDonald’s of Springfield? 20 by Sandra Baksys John Makarauskas changed his surname to Mack a full 16 years be- fore he went into fast food. He had no way of knowing he would one day be the man responsible for bringing “Mack-fries,” “Mack-cheese- burgers” and “Big Macks” to Springfield. Knitting in Lithuania 24 page 13 by Donna Druchunas What makes knitting Lithuanian? Is it the special techniques that are used? A unique way to hold the yarn and needles? Certain combina- tions of colors? History of Lithuania (Book Review) 28 by Donatas Januta This 327 page book, available online only, is the work of four Lithuan- ian historians that chronicles the country’s history from the first written mention of Lithuania’s name in 1009 to membership in the European Union in 2004. Recipes (Baking with Honey) 29 Cover Credits: FRONT and BACK COVERS: 10th Song Festival. Photo by Jonas Kuprys. INSIDE FRONT COVER: Bee Hives at Lithuanian Museum of Ancient Bee- page 24 keeping: Photo by Wosyl, Wikimedia Commons. INSIDE BACK COVER: Bill Walton and Fr. Lukas Laniauskas, S.J. Photo by Jonas Kuprys. THIS PAGE: Beekeeper. Photo by Kzenon. Shutterstock. September/ October 2015 LITHUANIAN HERITAGE 1 L A B A S You have arisen, our homeland, Lietuva! PUBLISHER hose of us who had the opportunity to attend or, even better, to Lithuanian Catholic Press Society participate in the 10th North American Song Festival in Chicago Chicago, IL Tare still recovering from the unique experience. The four-hour performance was breathtaking, inspiring, and draining (in a good way). ACTING EDITOR A 90-min video excerpt is available on the Web, thanks to Lithuanian Jonas Daugirdas Radio and Television, and they promise that a telecast of the entire four-hour performance will be archived by the time that this issue of COPY EDITOR Lithuanian Heritage has reached our readers. In this issue we post some Rita Bureika Kaufmann spectacular photos from the Song Festival, and one can view many more on the Draugas News facebook page. We also are publishing the moving Wondering about your Estate Plan? lyrics, along with an English translation, to one of the centerpiece com - positions performed at the Festival, the “Singing Revolution” cantata, Remember the Draugas Foundation and assure the future of our Lithuanian-Ameri - written by Rugilė Kazlauskaitė. can Press. Since 1992, the Draugas Foun - The Monday after the Song Festival, July 6th, is celebrated as State - dation has served to sustain the Lithuan - hood Day in Lithuania, being the anniversary of the coronation of King ian language Draugas , and now comes to Mindaugas in 1253. It has become a tradition for Lithuanians living the aid of Draugas News and Lithuanian abroad, no matter where they might be living, to come together on this Heritage as well. Over the years, it has supported capital improvements and in - day and sing the national anthem. In downtown Chicago, several hundred vested in printing hardware and comput - Lithuanians gathered in a flash mob at Cloud Gate (“The Bean”) next ers. When times were especially rough, it to Lake Michigan, creating a happening that was given television coverage helped pay operating expenses. The Drau - by Fox News. So, it’s perhaps appropriate that we describe in this issue gas Foundation is our lifeline and guaran - how the Lithuanian national anthem came to be written by Vincas tor of the future of Draugas’s unique set of Kudirka, and how its use was revived after the restoration of independ - publications. ence in 1990. In addition to the Lithuanian words and the English For the Draugas Foundation to fulfill its translation posted on the Lithuanian government Web site, we’re pro - mission, it needs your support and in - viding a slightly modified, singable English version that perhaps still volvement. A few legacy gifts of moderate needs to be fine-tuned. size will ensure the health of Draugas News , Draugas , and Lithuanian Heritage Recently two Lithuanian Americans were successful in obtaining for years to come. crowdfunding support to help prepare and launch their books. Sandra Baksys is a writer-historian whose book chronicles the experiences of All donations are tax deductible. The Lithuanians in Springfield, Illinois. Donna Druchunas’s book is about Draugas Foundation (http://www.draugo - fondas.org) is a charitable, 501(c)(3) or - the continuing traditions of Lithuanian knitting. Both authors kindly ganization. You can write foundation into agreed to write articles about their area of expertise for this issue of your will by specifying: “Draugas Founda - Lithuanian Heritage . When I was in Lithuania last year, one of Ona’s rel - tion,” EIN number: 36-3916303. For ques - atives, Prof. Ramutis Rindzevičius, who happens to be a well-respected tions, please call: Marija Remienė, Presi - beekeeper, treated me to some very unique and delicious honey from dent, Draugas Foundation, his hives. We’re very happy to present here an article about beekeeping tel. 773-585-9500. in Lithuania, a blend of the latest science and old traditions. Jonas Daugirdas, Acting Editor Lithuanian Heritage is published by the Lithuanian Catholic Press Society (DRAUGAS), 4545 W. 63rd Street, Chicago, IL 60629-5532. Lithuanian Heritage is available only as a bi - monthly (six times per year) supplement to Draugas News (http://www.draugasnews.org). Please consult our website or the back page of this magazine for subscription information. Copyright 2015 by the Lithuanian Catholic Press Society. 2 LITHUANIAN HERITAGE September / October 2015 and a group of young people would crisscross the areas where Lithuanians were sent noting names and locations. In their travels they also came across Japanese graves and similar Japanese searchers. It seems that Japan was the only other country looking for their dead in Siberia, so soon cooper - Cheesemaking (some tips) very slow. Like bread, overmixing ru - ation has developed between the two I read Ona Daugirdas’ article first ins it. And finally, 7) Yes, never use groups. The Japanese were very grate - thing when I received my Lithuanian lemon juice or citric acid. If you ful to Mr. Petrokas for his help and Heritage magazine today. Being a do, you might as well boil the milk presented him with a video recorder, a hobby cheesemaker myself, I found and make ricotta cheese. The “sour - video player and a television set, things it interesting. But I also have a few ing” comes from the cultures that exist helpful hints. You see, my wife is from in the buttermilk and the sour taste that were beyond his means to buy in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and comes from the production of lactic those days in Lithuania. With it he was we both enjoy the Finnish fresh acid as the cultures ferment the milk. then able to photograph graves and cheese called juustoa (squeaky cheese). DAN BUTKUS videotape descendants of deportees She gets the Finnish American Re - Madison, WI still living in Russia. Unfortunately Mr. porter and I get your magazine. The Editor’s response: Petrokas died and then conditions in juustoa recipes for are easy and simple, Dear Dan: Russia changed, so there are no or - and as old as the hills, yet I had trouble Many thanks for the tip about using ho - ganized searches any more. making it. Over and over again, the mogenized milk. Much of the contro - TADAS STOMMA curds came out too grainy and fine. versy over “raw milk” in the United Tega Cay, SC And it never properly “squeaked” States has to do with the possibility when I bit into it after the broiling (quite low, as I understand it) that un - Editor’s response: process. I started reading up on how pasteurized milk might contain danger - Dear Tadai: to make cheese and learned to make ous bacteria. However, pasteurization Many thanks for this interesting infor - brie, blue, Port Salut, cheddar, and has nothing to do with homogenization, mation. I knew about the searches in more. This helped me be able to fi - and one can buy pasteurized, but non - Siberia related to deported Lithuanians, juustoa nally make properly. homogenized milk. I but had no idea that similar searches 1) Do not use homogenized found some locally at were being carried out by the Japanese. milk. The homogenizing process our grocery store in the I would like to comment on your last yields a poorly developed curd and it Chicago area under the sentence, that organized searches and can become fine grained and falls apart Organic Valley label: expeditions to Siberia have ceased.
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