Some Drunks Give the History of St.Patrick's Day
Busting out one of my favorite videos: I roamed the New York streets one St Patty's to find the true meaning of the occasion.
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
The President's Hymn
With the recent inauguration, there has a lot of references made to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. And with his 200th birthday quickly approaching, I though it would be an appropriate time to share with you this heavenly recording of The President's Hymn. TOH appeared on the cover on Harper's Weekly, in honor of Lincoln's decision to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
This recording was made by Sarah T, and features the voice of my Aunt Patsy.
You can get the sheet music here.
Lincoln Bicentennial info
Don't Forget Repeal Day!
This Friday, December 5th, marks the day the 18th Amendment was overturned. That's Prohibition, if you don't have your Constitution handy. In this special season, so packed with holidays, it's easy to forget Repeal Day. But Repeal Day is the most fun of them all!! From the official Repeal Day website:
"Conveniently located halfway between Thanksgiving and Christmas — at a time when most Americans are probably not spending time with family — Repeal Day presents a wonderful occasion to get together with friends and pay tribute to our constitutional rights.There are no outfits to buy, costumes to rent, rivers to dye green. Simply celebrate the day by stopping by your local bar, tavern, saloon, winery, distillery, or brewhouse and having a drink. Pick up a six-pack on your way home from work. Split a bottle of wine with a loved one. Buy a shot for a stranger. Just do it because you can."
Celebrate just like they did in 1933 with a midnight toast! Or if you like, you can come over to my place for some old-time cocktails.
Dewar's Celebrates Repeal Day -- including a history of Repeal Day, and tips on how to celebrate.
The First Turducken?
From DJBryan via The Education of Oronte Churm:
"...My favorite part of the book is “Part 2: Historical Recipes,” which date from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. I don’t know why old recipes are so evocative, since many of the ingredients are unknown to me or difficult to get, the processes laborious beyond belief, and the results, quite honestly, often nothing I’d want to eat. But they read like a poetry of lost specifics, in which you learn old words and ways to boil, bone, braise, devil, hash, jelly, pot, roast, sauce, steam, stew, and stuff a turkey...
"The author of one of the listed recipes, for instance, Hannah Glasse, who in 1747 self-published The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, writes of a 'Yorkshire Christmas-Pye' made with a bushel of flour, four pounds of butter, and a boned 'Turkey, a Goose, a Fowl, a Partridge, and a Pigeon,' all nestled one in the next. Add mace, nutmegs, cloves, black pepper, and salt. Surround the turkey with a jointed hare and 'Woodcock, more Game, and what Sort of Wild fowl you can get.' The pies bake four hours in a very hot oven and should emerge with 'Walls…well built' so they can be 'sent to London in a Box as Presents….'"
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Happy Evacuation Day!
Today was an actual holiday, once more popular than the 4th of July, celebrating the day the British pulled out of New York City during the Revolutionary War.
This year was the 225th anniversary. And I missed it!!!! I had no idea it was going on. There were costumed reenactors!!! From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
"A private reenactors group, the Brigade of the American Revolution, prepared a mock ceremony in which a British officer would give the key to New York City to one of Washington's officers.
That didn't actually happen in 1783, but the little drama was intended to symbolize the transfer of power that ended the Revolutionary War, two years after Washington's victory at Yorktown, Va., said park service spokesman Michael Callahan."
I love seeing things reenacted that never happened! Oh well...maybe next year.
Also, there are some commemorative lights in Jersey tonight, marking important Revolutionary War sites, including Fort Nonsense.
NYC Marks Evacuation Day (Minn. Star Tribune)
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