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Yesterday's Christmas Comes To Life
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Re-creating the traditions ot a mid-19th
century Christmas, the Noah Webster House
in Greenfield Village is decorated for the
holidays just as it was when the Webster
family lived there.
Boxwood garlands and hanging greens of
holly and ivy decorate the Cotswold Cottage
in Greenfield Village. This 350 year-old house
from England shows visitors one of the earli
est forms of Christmas decoration.
A Greenfield Village hostess makes mince
meat tarts in the kitchen on the Stephen
Foster Birthplace as a group of visiting chil
dren watch intently. This is one of several
demonstrations in the Village and Museum
that help bring yesterday’s Christmas to life
for today’s visitors.
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The simple Christinas tradi
tions of earlier times and the
joy and meaning they express
ed seem buried now in the
recesses of the past, but that
Spirit of Christmas is alive and
well in Greenfield Village and
Henry Ford Museum in Dear
born, Michigan where it is still
remembered and faithfully re
created.
Beginning December 11, fam
ilies visiting this outstanding
repository of living American
history can share the kind of
(phristmas their ancestors
knew.
The warmth and nostalgia of
earlier Yuletides abounds in
tpe Village homes appropriately
decorated as they might have
been by their original famous
owners men like Webster,
Edison, Burbank, Ford and
the Wright Brothers. These
barly American buildings,
iglow with candles, greenery,
festive tables, poinsettia and
yule logs, re-create the theme,
“A Currier & Ives Christmas.’’
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} At the picturesque Town
Hall on the Village green, vis
itors are greeted by the tra
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4-H LANDSCAPING
: Landscaping is one of the
102 projects offered Georgia
4-H members. A 4-H’er is first
carefully schooled in the
subject. Then he applies the
landscaping principles he has
Sarned to his own project.
lanning public, service, private
apd garden areas; foundation
planting; and maintenance of
home grounds are some of the
tppics covered in the
landscaping program. For
further information on 4-H
projects or membership, con
tact your county agent or
Extension home economist.
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ditional aroma of the hot,
spiced cider and Christmas
cookies served there. In near
by Clinton Inn, the holiday
menu and festive decorations
re-create Christmas in a hos
telry a century ago.
The Village is alive with ac
tivity. Bread bakes in the
hearth of a pioneer cabin,
taffy bubbles on the stove of
a 19th-century farm kitchen
and hammers shape red-hot
iron on the anvil in America’s
oldest operating forge.
Adding to the atmosphere,
the sound of traditional Christ
mas music occasionally drifts
through the bare trees to min
gle with the tinkle of harness
bells on the horses pulling old
fashioned sleighs along the
snow-crusted streets..
Music also fills the Museum
where craftsmen are busy re
creating that time when not
only the luxuries, but also the
necessities of life were made
by hand. These skilled artisans
mold can d 1 es, blow glass
Christmas ornaments, cast
metals, form pottery and make
dolls, quilts, hooked rugs and
many other objects in the
UNDER THE PALM
Some say the traditional
Christmas tree was once a
palm with 12 parts, each part
representing one of the 12
apostles.
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The White House was fin
ished after George Wash
ington had been succeeded
by John Adams as presi
dent; hence Martha Wash
ington never lived in it.
time-honored tradition of their
arts.
Nearby a special display of
authentic Currier & Ives holi
day prints serves as a back
drop to room settings depic
ting scenes from some of them.
A farm kitchen, a Victorian
parlor or a table setting shows
the Christmas atmosphere of
grandfather’s day.
Rounding out this Christmas
from the past, the Greenfield
Village Players present a
charming holiday entertain
ment for the entire family,
“Hansel and Gretel.” This
warm and humerous adapta
tion of the classic fairy tale
is enlivened by songs and
dances from the original Hum
perdinck score. With both mat
inee and evening performances
in the Museum Theater, this
lively production perpetuates
the tradition of the Christmas
offerings of an earlier era.
Truly, at Greenfield Village
and Henry Ford Museum, the
kind of Christmas everyone
would like to remember still
lives, transporting visitors to
a quieter time, a more mean
ingful time.
“IMPROVED” PINES
The term “improved”
applies to pine seedlings grown
from selected .parents. These
parents were selected because
of their form,
growth rate, disease resistance
and other desirable charac
teristics. George D. Walker,
Extension Service forester, says
the seed-producing parents are
continually being tested and
only the best reserved. Today
all loblolly pine seedlings
grown in Georgia Forestry
Commission nurseries are of
“improved” stock.
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There's a jingle in
the air as holiday
cheer rings everywhere.
George Brice
Bennett Garage
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Are you letting wine snob
bery kill your enjoyment of
the basic pleasures of wine
drinking?
Are you more concerned
about which wine to serve
with chicken, than about
which wine you like best? Do
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you worry about having the
right glass, whether or not to
chill the bottle, and for how
long?
Throw away those wine
worries, and instead, concen
trate on enjoying the glass
before you. That’s the advice
of wine experts.
Thus while white wine is
enjoyable with fish, a sat
isfying one such as
LaDoucette white wine from
the Loire valley is equally en
joyable with steak or roast
beef!
As for the proper glass,
you don’t need a great assort
ment. You can drink wine
out of a tumbler just as well.
The “ideal” glass, though, for
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WINE AND DANDY
those who enjoy adding the
touch, is tulip-shaped.
But if you want to get the
most pleasure possible out of
your wine drinking, you
should avoid three “enemies”
perhaps sitting there in
nocently on your table right
now. Curry dishes are murder
to any wine. The spice is so
heavy it drowns out the wine
flavor completely. The exces
sive acidity in grapefruit is
another enemy. And salad
with vinegar dressing is wine’s
oldest natural enemy. By all
means substitute a good vin
egarette dressing, using lemon
juice or wine vinegar, instead
of the usual malt vinegar.
When you pour a glaSs of
wine, you’re following a cus
tom probably 12,000 years
old. We’ve been treading the
grape and sipping the cup
since ancient Egyptian times.
As for the Bible, it lists
Noah as the first man to plant
a vineyard. In Roman times,
spices, herbs, perfumes and
flowers were added to wine,
and to this day we enjoy a
similar treat. Vermouth is
actually flavored wine, and it
is the judicious choice of
herbs that means top quality
in a fine brand such as Stock
Italian-produced Vermouth.
It was considered a mark of
the barbarian—or conquered
peoples—that they refused to
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flavor their wines.
If you want to experiment
with wine, but don’t know
where to begin, find a reliable
wine-keeper. Describe your
tastes, and ask him to recom
mend something to go with
that night’s menu. Often he
can find a good, inexpensive
wine to please you.
If it’s flavor you’re after,
try using wine in your
cooking. Just a teaspoon a
minute before you take a
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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS, DEC. 23, 1971, SECTION B
clear soup off the stove,
makes it a taste treat. Meat
and fowl gravies improve
when quality wine is added.
You can add a fillip to your
desserts by either pouring
wine over fresh or canned
fruit, or by serving a glass
with it.
To enjoy the full aroma of
any wine, fill the glass no
more than two-thirds. To
bring out its bouquet, gently
swish the liquid around in the
glass and then sniff. And
when you drink, let the wine
roll around in your mouth so
that all your 9,000 taste buds
can savor its taste before you
swallow.
Wine was made for your
enjoyment. So don’t let the
wine snobs make you miss
out on a good thing, when
you, like the poet Omar
Khayam, can find Paradise
with “A jug of wine, a loaf of
bread and thou. . . Ah,
wilderness were Paradise
now!”
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The first prize fight with a
million dollar gate was the
Dempsey-Carpentier bout
held on July 2, 1921.
Dempsey won.
PEACE
%/ith deep p
sincerity, we send
Christmas greetings
and best wishes to all.
Danny’s House
of Photography
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