OVER THE YEARS I HAVE ASKED MONSIGNIORS, NUNS, DEACONS, AND ALMOST EVERYONE TO DEFINE A "EUCHRE." NO ONE WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS TERM WHICH WAS A VERY FREQUENT CHURCH CUSTOM IN EARLIER YEARS. I ASSUME THE WORD DERIVES FROM EUCHARIST, BUT THAT'S ALL I KNOW. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE DEFINITION OF A EUCHRE IS?I RECEIVED 2 ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION ABOVE, ONE FROM "DOROTHY," AND ANOTHER FROM "JO." NOT KNOWING WHETHER OR NOT THESE LADIES REQUESTED SEMI-ANONYMITY, I HAVE ONLY USED SKETCHY IDENTIFICATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, LADIES, PLEASE COME BACK OFTEN.
The word "Euchre" in this case may refer to
the card game of that name.
the card game of that name.
Dorothy
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I just found this blog through a link in an nj.com/Times of Trenton article. Very informative - I love it!
I also wanted to let you know that my good friends Mr. Google and Mr. Wiki have informed me that Euchre is actually a card game!
The name Euchre may or may not have been taken from "Eucharist"; some believe it's simply a translation of a similar French card game called Écarté, but others think that since it's historically been so popular as a church fundraiser, that people may have borrowed the name from "Eucharist". I don't really understand how the game is played; there are several different versions and I'm really not much of a card player beyond poker. But it appears to be kind of similar to bridge, 500 rummy, and pinochle. It involves bidding, collecting specific cards of specific suits, trump cards, and tricking/bluffing your opponents.
Euchre is still played around the world today - there are championship tournaments and everything. It's not nearly as popular here in America as it was back in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, but there are still a lot of churches and clubs/groups that have Euchre "parties" or "tournaments" as fundraisers. Apparently Euchre works very well as a fundraising event, so it's still used pretty often for that purpose.
Well anyway, thanks so much for digging up and enhancing all of these old Trenton/Hamilton pictures! What a great find! ~ Jo
Hi there,
I just found this blog through a link in an nj.com/Times of Trenton article. Very informative - I love it!
I also wanted to let you know that my good friends Mr. Google and Mr. Wiki have informed me that Euchre is actually a card game!
The name Euchre may or may not have been taken from "Eucharist"; some believe it's simply a translation of a similar French card game called Écarté, but others think that since it's historically been so popular as a church fundraiser, that people may have borrowed the name from "Eucharist". I don't really understand how the game is played; there are several different versions and I'm really not much of a card player beyond poker. But it appears to be kind of similar to bridge, 500 rummy, and pinochle. It involves bidding, collecting specific cards of specific suits, trump cards, and tricking/bluffing your opponents.
Euchre is still played around the world today - there are championship tournaments and everything. It's not nearly as popular here in America as it was back in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, but there are still a lot of churches and clubs/groups that have Euchre "parties" or "tournaments" as fundraisers. Apparently Euchre works very well as a fundraising event, so it's still used pretty often for that purpose.
Well anyway, thanks so much for digging up and enhancing all of these old Trenton/Hamilton pictures! What a great find! ~ Jo
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Hi there,
I just found this blog through a link in an nj.com/Times of Trenton article. Very informative - I love it!
I also wanted to let you know that my good friends Mr. Google and Mr. Wiki have informed me that Euchre is actually a card game!
The name Euchre may or may not have been taken from "Eucharist"; some believe it's simply a translation of a similar French card game called Écarté, but others think that since it's historically been so popular as a church fundraiser, that people may have borrowed the name from "Eucharist".
I don't really understand how the game is played; there are several different versions and I'm really not much of a card player beyond poker. But it appears to be kind of similar to bridge, 500 rummy, and pinochle. It involves bidding, collecting specific cards of specific suits, trump cards, and tricking/bluffing your opponents.
Euchre is still played around the world today - there are championship tournaments and everything. It's not nearly as popular here in America as it was back in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, but there are still a lot of churches and clubs/groups that have Euchre "parties" or "tournaments" as fundraisers. Apparently Euchre works very well as a fundraising event, so it's still used pretty often for that purpose.
Well anyway, thanks so much for digging up and enhancing all of these old Trenton/Hamilton pictures! What a great find!
~ Jo in Mercerville
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