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Qarin Tak, Uncle Mayor and the Bunch of Strawberries
http://karabakh-open.info/en/societyen/3056-en812
Friday, 25 January 2013 15:07
Qarin Tak village, where 76-year-old Mayor Sargsyan was born and has
been living together with his wife Lena so far, is bosomed in
mountains in the region of Shoushi. As Mr. Mayor says nearly three
centuries ago 5-6 families from the village of Khtsaberd, Hadrout
region, came here and founded this village and the dialect of Hadrout
has been spoken here until now.
The villagers' main occupation, there are 660 inhabitants in the
village, is husbandry and farming. Most young people from the village
work in Shoushi and in contrast to the youths of some other villages
of Artsakh they do not leave the village but marry and stay in their
birthplace.
As the inhabitants of Qarin Tak assure they have everything here: a
church, a newly-built house of festivities, a repaired school. The
village will look like a town if the 3-kilometer road to the highway
is covered with asphalt, the villagers say.
Mr. Mayor, who worked in the collective farm of the village as a
mechanic for 33 years and drove a car, a tractor and a combine, says,
`when ploughing the land we found pitchers, jars and other old
Armenian instruments, some of which are now in the museum of
Stepanakert.' Today he lives in the village together with his wife on
their pensions of 60 thousand drams and on the money their children
send. Uncle Mayor, however, is never idle, he continues cultivating
the vegetable garden and bringing wood from the forest.
Mrs. Lena remembers the first meeting with her husband up till now.
`Mayor was a poor boy when we fell in love with each other. At our
first meeting he brought only 2 nuts, not the way they do now. Today
boys take the girls to restaurants to treat to pizzas but he brought
only two nuts or a bunch of strawberries. At the wedding he brought a
thin ring only. Mayor was out in the fields all day long and I had to
carry the whole burden of household affairs on my shoulders alone.
Though life was hard those were interesting and happy years.'
And similar stories follow one another. Mrs. Lena and Mr. Mayor
continue telling stories denying and confirming each other's words.
This is the winter life of some of Qarin Tak villagers, part of them
go to work in Shoushi by fixed-run taxi and return home in the
evening. The others are engaged in everyday troubles feeding the
animals, cleaning the cowsheds and so on.
http://karabakh-open.info/en/societyen/3056-en812
Friday, 25 January 2013 15:07
Qarin Tak village, where 76-year-old Mayor Sargsyan was born and has
been living together with his wife Lena so far, is bosomed in
mountains in the region of Shoushi. As Mr. Mayor says nearly three
centuries ago 5-6 families from the village of Khtsaberd, Hadrout
region, came here and founded this village and the dialect of Hadrout
has been spoken here until now.
The villagers' main occupation, there are 660 inhabitants in the
village, is husbandry and farming. Most young people from the village
work in Shoushi and in contrast to the youths of some other villages
of Artsakh they do not leave the village but marry and stay in their
birthplace.
As the inhabitants of Qarin Tak assure they have everything here: a
church, a newly-built house of festivities, a repaired school. The
village will look like a town if the 3-kilometer road to the highway
is covered with asphalt, the villagers say.
Mr. Mayor, who worked in the collective farm of the village as a
mechanic for 33 years and drove a car, a tractor and a combine, says,
`when ploughing the land we found pitchers, jars and other old
Armenian instruments, some of which are now in the museum of
Stepanakert.' Today he lives in the village together with his wife on
their pensions of 60 thousand drams and on the money their children
send. Uncle Mayor, however, is never idle, he continues cultivating
the vegetable garden and bringing wood from the forest.
Mrs. Lena remembers the first meeting with her husband up till now.
`Mayor was a poor boy when we fell in love with each other. At our
first meeting he brought only 2 nuts, not the way they do now. Today
boys take the girls to restaurants to treat to pizzas but he brought
only two nuts or a bunch of strawberries. At the wedding he brought a
thin ring only. Mayor was out in the fields all day long and I had to
carry the whole burden of household affairs on my shoulders alone.
Though life was hard those were interesting and happy years.'
And similar stories follow one another. Mrs. Lena and Mr. Mayor
continue telling stories denying and confirming each other's words.
This is the winter life of some of Qarin Tak villagers, part of them
go to work in Shoushi by fixed-run taxi and return home in the
evening. The others are engaged in everyday troubles feeding the
animals, cleaning the cowsheds and so on.