Storytelling in Dalnic Village

The Romanian version of this book was published as Dalnic. Istorii nespuse din satul lui Doja. Reporteri in Secuime.

The Hungarian version of this book was published as Dalnok felfedezese. Roman es magyar ujsagirok Dozsa falujarol. We ransacked the place for clues; we knocked on gates to see ruined mansions and marvelous parks towered by centuries old Gingko biloba trees; we haunted the graveyard uphill; we partook in the Reformed Church Service and also of woodpecker’s diligence, as it was pecking nude the steeple eaves; we ate potato bread, red onions and smoked lard, also savoring sweet nutty vanilla kurtos which beat all else their kind, by any standards; we took snap shots and videos of the Doja massive statues; we visited the local museums and the fabled mofettes; we enjoyed meeting carnival Hussars and peasants displaying baskets full of potatoes, onions and pumpkins, on local Thanksgiving Day fair [...].

The nights spent in Gal Mansion are as true as life, nothing left to invention: we did sit under the four-trunk walnut tree, sprawled on the sofas in the aristocratic halls, and dreamt in front of the fireplace, thereby fanning the fertile dialogues of this book born out of journalistic prying and childish joy at stories alive. We actually urge you to go see for yourselves! - Brindusa Armanca Fragment din cartea "Storytelling in Dalnic Village" de Brandusa Armanca, Arpad Gazda "War of Secession `We had our own maternity and general hospitals and a public school; but the folks in Moacsa took them away furniture and all, chairs and tables, in '68, when Moacsa was registered a commune and Dalnic just a village in it, 7 km away.

We owned 5.300 hectares of farming land, while the commune and all its other villages had the rest to 8.000. We paid our duties and taxes, they ate them up. For a long time we had no roads, not even a bus.

So we said enough is enough, we want separation, we need our independence, for things to be as they were before `68, with a mayor of our own and our own businesses to attend to. What belongs to Dalnic, let it be its own!' is venting in one breath, Rozalia, a 38 year old woman from Dalnic. The first referendum was held in the '90s, to little effect.

680 people signed pro, and the papers were taken to the county authorities, where no one read them. The commune plan was put on hold, yet never forgotten. So, in 2003 they tried again; and this time, 900 people signed pro.

The file was sent to the county authorities and also to the Senate House, for the secession to be voted. On April 19, the first Moacsa mayor, born in Dalnic and a fervent secessionist, got a phone call. A Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania-UDMR Senator told them the voting resulted in their favor, so the former village Dalnic of Moacsa was to be declared a commune in its own right."