Mildred Coppus and John Tripp's Wedding

Mildred Coppus and John Tripp's Wedding

Over the next few days I want to cover my parents wedding. This happened

November 23, 1932 in Toledo, Ohio. I think you will find this material

rather inteeresting.

Today we have the press releases:

Blue Ribbon that Mom and her sister Elsie earned in the Seneca County Fair Cake Bake

I knew that I would come across this while looking for other things. Here is the Blue Ribbon that Mom and her sister Elsie earned in the Seneca County Fair Cake Baking Competition during the summer of 1926.

A special bond

This photo is vary appropriate today after having just visited Bob and Mary Schornstheimer in Hawaii. One of the things that we did not do is get a picture of them while we were there - maybe they can send one to add to my collection of pictures. Come to think about it we did not get a picture of Jim and Jo either.

They were wonderful hosts. The photo below just goes to show how Mary and I have always had a special bond.

Bob and Mary Tripp taken at home in Metamora taken sometime in the early 1950's.

Hunting Easter Eggs

By now that you think we surely must have some Greek in our blood ancestry, but that is probably not the case. I found this reference to "Egg Tapping" at Wikipedia and I am sure that is where we got the tradition.

In the North of England, at Eastertime, a traditional game is played where hard boiled pace eggs are distributed and each player hits the other player's egg with their own. This is known as "egg tapping", "egg dumping" or "egg jarping". The winner is the holder of the last intact egg. The losers get to eat their eggs. The annual egg jarping world championship is held every year over Easter in Peterlee Cricket Club. It is also practiced in Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Lithuania, Lebanon, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, and other countries. They call it tucanje. In parts of Austria, Bavaria and German-speaking Switzerland it is called Ostereiertitschen or Eierpecken. In South Louisiana this practice is called Pocketing eggs and is slightly different. The Cajuns hold that the winner eats the eggs of the losers in each round.

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After sending the email about Easter baskets and Cracking Easter Eggs I thought that I forgot to tell you about one of the best parts of Easter - hiding and finding Easter Eggs. This is usually done outside, but can be done inside as well. And yes, it can be done over and over again. As kids we had a great time doing this.

As you can well imagine after hiding and finding the eggs several times and then playing the Egg cracking game, those Easter eggs were pretty beat up, but we would eat them anyway - with a little salt they are very tasty. When you look at it from an economic veiwpoint - we had chickens to lay the eggs, a litttle food coloring and vinigar served worked just fine to color them on a table covered well with newspapers - all in all dirt cheap and greeat fun.

Over the years we have continued the tradition. In the first picture you will see Angela April 6, 1980 Easter hunting eggs at 2 1/2 years.

Next we find Easter 1982 Mark, Marie and Angela Tripp.

Tim and his kindergarten class did a fine job celebrating Easter in 1961.

And yes, I even found a picture of Dad and me playing the Easter Egg Cracking Game on Easter Day 1961.

Easter Sunday 1956 Younger Tripp kids

Hope the Easter Bunny found your house ok.

Easter at the Tripp House was always a fantastic day. You know, I think we enjoyed it as much if not more than Christmas. Providing Christmas for a buch of kids is very expensive and quite often what we received was clothing and shoes for the next year, games to share and so on.

But Easter was totally differnt, we would get up and everyone had a basket to find somewhere in the house and beleive me the Bunny got to be vefry good at hidding those baskets. After gorging ourselves with candy we would play the "Egg Cracking Game". In talking to many individuals I have yet to find another family that engaged in this sport.

Bill 8 years, Bob 6 years, Rich almost 5 years

and Patsy almost 2 years old.

Which egg will crack?

Question: What is the Game Played with Red Eggs at Greek Easter?

There's some kind of game Greeks play at Easter with the red eggs. What is it?

Answer: The game is called tsougrisma and it involves two players and red eggs.

Each player holds a red egg, and one taps the end of her/his egg lightly against the end of the other player's egg. The goal is to crack the opponent's egg. When one end is cracked, the winner uses the same end of her/his egg to try to crack the other end of the opponent's egg.

The player who successfully cracks the eggs of the other players is declared the winner and, it is said, will have good luck during the year.

There are no rules about which end of the egg to tap first, how to hold it, or how to tap - but I've never seen a "system" that works all the time!

The word tsougrisma means "clinking together" or "clashing." In Greek: , pronounced TSOO-grees-mah.

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Easter Egg Cracking Party Game

You Will Need - Eggs

Rules

Test the eggs first by knocking them against their eye tooth, and then choose the best egg to use for the game.

The contestants must agree beforehand on how much of their eggs will be covered by their hands, as revealing a large part of the egg's shell is much more risky.

The game begins with the contestants trying to crack the pointed ends of each other's eggs.

The person who loses must then turn his or her egg upside down. If a player cracks both ends of someone's egg, then he/she wins the egg.

By request more of our trip to Kauai

By request I will show you some more of our trip to beautiful Hawaii. Kauai is known as the Garden Isle, it is the least developed of the Hawaiian Islands and only 20% of it is accessible by car. If you want to see most of it you need to do it by hiking, by helicopter or by boat. There is only one main two lane road and after driving about 40-50 miles you have gone as far as you can go.

In the first picture you see the view from our condominium

at the Sealodge complex near Princeville on the on the North

shore or Napoli coast of Kauai.

In the next picture you see the condominium. The complex

itself sets on a 50 foot cliff overlooking the ocean.

The next day we got up to a marvelous view of the sunrise from our window.

We then hiked down over the cliff, through the woods, fording a stream, climbing over the lava rocks to Sealodge Beach. This may seem a little rugged, but making the hike while wearing hiking boots is definitely better than wearing flip flops as we had done four years ago while visiting Kauai. Here I am most of the way to the beach.

The next picture is at the Sealodge Beach. When we arrived only one other couple

was there and they soon left leaving us alone for the next four to five hours.

Bill Coppus

Well Martha and I are back from vacation, re-acclimated to Ohio, got the grass cut and ready to resume my project. We spent about two and a half weeks in Hawaii visiting Mary and Bob, Jim and Jo and then going to Kauai. Got a lot of time on the beach and some hiking in the mountains. All in all a good time.

In the first picture we are at Hanalei Bay, near the town of Hanalei on Kauai.

One of the things in my family history collection is a photo album previously owned by Etta Paden who married David Coppus (my mother's parents) and later married James Cook. I will periodically send pictures from this album that I have scanned.

Those for today are of Bill Coppus, my mother's brother. During World War II he served in the Merchant Marines. After returning home he became a fireman in the city of Fostoria Ohio.

In the first few pictures he is in his Merchant Marine uniform. In the first picture he is by himself, in the next one he is with his mother - Etta, the next one he is with his wife Geri, the next one he is in his Fireman uniform, the next he is with James Cook (Etta's husband) and the last is his wife Geri and their daughter Judy who was born in 1942.