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I never thought I would see something about my hometown of 300 people in rural Iowa on Hackernews. There are several Dvořák murals in town as well as a museum f
by mpmpmpmp 6y ago
I never thought I would see something about my hometown of 300 people in rural Iowa on Hackernews. There are several Dvořák murals in town as well as a museum for handmade grandfather clocks made by the Bily brothers. One of their descendants was my bus driver growing up and my grandfather grew up speaking Czech and English in the home. Kolaches are also a town staple and there are many fundraisers for Schools/Churches that include baking obscene amounts of them.
- war1025 6y agoMy dad and his cousin got their deer processed at the Spillville Locker a couple times. Went to see the Bily clocks one time with my grandma. Good times. Small world.
- mpmpmpmp 6y agoDefinitely a small world. I worked at the locker in highschool and was sad to see it close down a couple years back.
- throwaway894345 6y agoNit: s/ancestors/descendants. Also, I had some friends from Cedar Rapids who made Kolaches. I never knew how to spell the word. I’m guessing it’s a Czech thing given how many Czech people are in CR.
- dejv 6y agoProper Czech spelling is "Koláč" and it is universal word for round type of pastry with some filling in it. There are hundreds of variants depending on area and even familly.
- spacechild1 6y agoOh, that's interesting. In austria, basically all pastry comes from Czech. The “Topfengulatsche“ is a box shaped pastry filled with curd, now I know what “Gulatsche“ actually means.
- tasuki 6y agoAnd "koláče" is already plural, no need for the "s" at the end :)
- literallycancer 6y agoThat's not why they put the e there. It's just formed the same way as couch -> couches. And English e represents i anyway, not e.
- smcl 6y agoI guess it is an anglicisation of the word, czech spelling and grammar are not so widely known outside Czech Republic. I have seen similar quirks going from English into Czech. Like how there is "sendvič" for sandwich, and "sendviče" for sandwiches ... I've seen some places here advertising "sandwiche" (applying the Czech plural to the English stem).
- smcl 6y agoOr even non-pastries - mrkvový koláč
- dbcurtis 6y agoHello from Kendallville.
- StLCylone 6y agoBilly Brothers clocks, as a child in northeast Iowa that place felt world-famous.