Приносът на Ловешката земляческа организация за развитие на регионалната мемоаристика и опазване на спомена за родния край
The contribution of the Lovech Countrymen Organization to the development of regional memory

Summary/Abstract: An important part of the Lovech countrymen organization`s activities was the efforts to save and to spread the history and the memory about the native town and its region. Lovech cultural-charity organization in Sofia achieves this aim by two ways - the traditional one - by the annual festival named "vecherinka" and by the publication and distribution of seven serial books "Lovech and Lovech` region" printed from 1929 to 1938. This kind of publication is quite rare for its time. It contains varied materials scientific and popular studies, documents` excerpt of newspapers, folklore about the people and event that had happened in the town, memoirs. In these papers I treat the problems about organization of the edition and the first volume that contains memoirs and give the patterns for the next books. The publication of "Lovech and Lovech`s region" is a result of the persistence and the resourcefulness of Scientific committee and the support of the Lovech` townspeople. In preparation, publication and distribution of the books Scientific committee collaborates at first with the Lovech brain workers and later with wider circles of the towns people. The intellectuals give the models of memoirs which the well educated and than not so well educated people became to follow. Giving up the strict thematically differentiation of the volumes give possibilities to evolve the first given models to save the local historical memory. The idea about "Memorial fund" was very successful. This way Scientific committee has consolidated the traditional Bulgarian cultural adjustments to the Europeans ones and achieved financial support for the edition and involved wider circles of the Lovech` society in writing memoirs and saving the oral history of the native region.

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