IN PREPARATION FOR A POPULAR LATVIAN FESTIVAL: CUSTOMERS BUYING THE FAMOUS S. JOHN'S CHEESE1
These flat round cheeses, known as the S. John's Day Cheese, are made annually by the farmers' wives of Latvia to celebrate S. John's festival, which falls on June 24. During the preceding day large numbers of them are sold, at a very moderate figure, for the countryfolk delight in this old-world holiday and endeavour to observe all its varied tradition. After dusk has fallen on S. John's Eve the merry-making becomes universal, and the cheeses are gradually demolished in the interludes between the singing and dancing, continued until the early hours of the morning
Photo, Press Section, Latvian Foreign Office, Riga
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1 | Latvian: Jāņu siers |
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PEOPLES OF ALL NATIONS: THEIR LIFE TODAY AND THE STORY OF THEIR PAST BY OUR FOREMOST WRITERS OF TRAVEL, ANTHROPOLOGY & HISTORY (in 7 volumes), editor J. A. Hammerton, published by the Educational Book Co., London, 1920. Subsequently published as both a 7 volume set (1922) and subscription series (1922–1923) by the Amalgamated Press, London.