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THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYby Kathy Wolfe

This week, Tidbits focuses on one of the nation’s favorite holidays, declared a national holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.• A fortune-telling chicken gave us the start

to the tradition of breaking the wishbone atThanksgiving. Over 2,400 years ago, theEtruscan people inhabited the Italian peninsula, and believed a strange superstition related totheir 20-letter alphabet. Drawing a circle inthe dirt, these early Italians divided it into 20wedges, and placed a kernel of grain in eachwedge, depicting each letter.As a hen nibbledat the pieces, a holy man was transcribing thelettersinorder.Thehighpriestwascalledupontointerpretthechicken’speckingorder.Adeadchicken’s collarbone was revered as sacred, and after drying out in the sun, the unbroken bonewas held by the superstitious Etruscans as they madeawish.WhentheRomansbeganpracticingthis unusual custom, they came to blows over the bones,breakingthem.Thepracticeevolvedintotheholderofthelargerpiecebeinggrantedtheirwish.Traditionstates thatoursaying“Ineedaluckybreak”or“Inevergetabreak”were theresultofthisritual.TheRomanspassedalongthesuperstitiontotheEnglish,whobroughtittotheNew World, and, with the abundance of turkeys in the area, transferred the practice to the native fowl.

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NATIONAL BOSS DAYby Stanley Drummond

Bosses are people, too. (Really!) And every year on October 16, America pays tribute to them.• Actually, National Boss Day was created in

1958 by an Illinois secretary named Patricia Haroski. She chose October 16 because it was her father’s birthday. Her father also happened to be her boss at the time. Nevertheless, she felt that bosses in general were underappreciated, and registered the date with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as an official observance.

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• Thedinnertableisn’ttheonlyplaceyou’llfinda wishbone on Thanksgiving Day. You mightseeoneduringtheafter-dinnerfootballgame,ifthe offensive line of your team uses a wishbone formation. This occurs when the quarterback surges forward, followed by the fullback, witha halfback on each of his sides. The appearance ofthesefourplayersgivestheappearanceofaninverted“Y”,muchlikethebird’sclavicle.

• Thereareonlythreefruitsthatareentirelynativeto North America – the blueberry, the Concord grape, and the cranberry.A 1680 letter from acolonisttohisbrotherinEnglandwasoneoftheearliest mentions of cranberries. Early Native Americans,whocalled thefruit“sassamanesh”or“ibimi,”concocted“pemmican”bycrushingcranberriesandmixingthemwithdrieddeermeat.They also used the berries in poultices in order to drawpoisonfromarrowwounds.Thebrightredjuice lent itself nicely to use as a dye for blankets andclothing.Europeansettlerscalledtheberrya“craneberry”becausetheplant’sdroopingflowerresembled the head and bill of a crane.

• Good and good for you!The tiny cranberry isrich in antioxidants, and may provide important defenseagainstAlzheimer’sDisease.

• When theMayflower sailed into what is nowProvincetownHarboronNovember11,1620,itbroughttheancestorsofmanynotableAmericans,includingseveralpresidents.BothGeorgeH.W.BushandhissoncantracetheirlineagebacktotheMayflower, as can the senior Bush’sVice-PresidentDanQuayleandpresidentialwifeandmotherBarbaraBush.FilmiconsOrsonWellesand Marilyn Monroe share the same ancestor,passenger JohnAlden, while notables FranklinRoosevelt, U.S. Grant, Sarah Palin, and actorRichardGerearemembersof the same familytree. Clint Eastwood descends from Plymouth ColonygovernorWilliamBradford,asdidNoahWebster of dictionary fame.

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• Ittakesabout4,400cranberriestomakeagallonofjuice,andabout200foreverycanofcranberrysauce. They are only grown in five Americanstates, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey,Oregon,andWashington.IfyouweretocombineallthecranberrybogsinNorthAmerica,theareawouldadduptoonlyabout47squaremiles.

• TheonlyofficialrecordofthefirstThanksgivingmenu comes from the writings of Colonygovernor William Bradford, who listed “fivedeer,a largenumberof turkeysandwaterfowl,cod, and bass; plus the harvest, which consisted of wheat, corn, barley, and perhaps a few peas.” We’ve added our assumptions of assorted nuts, squashes, and berries to the list.

• While theofficialdate forThanksgiving in theUnited States is the fourth Thursday of November, Canadians celebrate their holiday on the second MondayinOctober.Itbeganin1872asadayofgratitudeforthePrinceofWales’recoveryfromalife-threateningillness.

• The pumpkin was used by early settlers as anantidoteforsnakebites.Othersthoughtitcouldbe used to remove freckles.

• The colonists’ version of pumpkin pie left outoneessential–thecrust!Theirrecipecalledforslicingoffthetop,removingtheseeds,andfillingup the cavity with cream, spices, and honey. It was then baked in hot ashes, and because a pumpkin is90percentwater,theresultwasarichcreamycustard.

• Therewasnolackofcrustontherecord-holdingworld’s largest pumpkin pie, baked in 2005.Weighinginat2,020pounds,thepastryrequired250 pounds of crust, 900 pounds of pumpkin,62gallonsofevaporatedmilk,1,860eggs,300poundsofsugarandsevenpoundsofcinnamon.

• Antarcticaistheonlycontinentwherepumpkinscan’tbegrown.




• Thedinnertableisn’ttheonlyplaceyou’llfinda wishbone on Thanksgiving Day. You mightseeoneduringtheafter-dinnerfootballgame,ifthe offensive line of your team uses a wishbone formation. This occurs when the quarterback surges forward, followed by the fullback, witha halfback on each of his sides. The appearance ofthesefourplayersgivestheappearanceofaninverted“Y”,muchlikethebird’sclavicle.

• Thereareonlythreefruitsthatareentirelynativeto North America – the blueberry, the Concord grape, and the cranberry.A 1680 letter from acolonisttohisbrotherinEnglandwasoneoftheearliest mentions of cranberries. Early Native Americans,whocalled thefruit“sassamanesh”or“ibimi,”concocted“pemmican”bycrushingcranberriesandmixingthemwithdrieddeermeat.They also used the berries in poultices in order to drawpoisonfromarrowwounds.Thebrightredjuice lent itself nicely to use as a dye for blankets andclothing.Europeansettlerscalledtheberrya“craneberry”becausetheplant’sdroopingflowerresembled the head and bill of a crane.

• Good and good for you!The tiny cranberry isrich in antioxidants, and may provide important defenseagainstAlzheimer’sDisease.

• When theMayflower sailed into what is nowProvincetownHarboronNovember11,1620,itbroughttheancestorsofmanynotableAmericans,includingseveralpresidents.BothGeorgeH.W.BushandhissoncantracetheirlineagebacktotheMayflower, as can the senior Bush’sVice-PresidentDanQuayleandpresidentialwifeandmotherBarbaraBush.FilmiconsOrsonWellesand Marilyn Monroe share the same ancestor,passenger JohnAlden, while notables FranklinRoosevelt, U.S. Grant, Sarah Palin, and actorRichardGerearemembersof the same familytree. Clint Eastwood descends from Plymouth ColonygovernorWilliamBradford,asdidNoahWebster of dictionary fame.




• Ittakesabout4,400cranberriestomakeagallonofjuice,andabout200foreverycanofcranberrysauce. They are only grown in five Americanstates, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey,Oregon,andWashington.IfyouweretocombineallthecranberrybogsinNorthAmerica,theareawouldadduptoonlyabout47squaremiles.

• TheonlyofficialrecordofthefirstThanksgivingmenu comes from the writings of Colonygovernor William Bradford, who listed “fivedeer,a largenumberof turkeysandwaterfowl,cod, and bass; plus the harvest, which consisted of wheat, corn, barley, and perhaps a few peas.” We’ve added our assumptions of assorted nuts, squashes, and berries to the list.

• While theofficialdate forThanksgiving in theUnited States is the fourth Thursday of November, Canadians celebrate their holiday on the second MondayinOctober.Itbeganin1872asadayofgratitudeforthePrinceofWales’recoveryfromalife-threateningillness.

• The pumpkin was used by early settlers as anantidoteforsnakebites.Othersthoughtitcouldbe used to remove freckles.

• The colonists’ version of pumpkin pie left outoneessential–thecrust!Theirrecipecalledforslicingoffthetop,removingtheseeds,andfillingup the cavity with cream, spices, and honey. It was then baked in hot ashes, and because a pumpkin is90percentwater,theresultwasarichcreamycustard.

• Therewasnolackofcrustontherecord-holdingworld’s largest pumpkin pie, baked in 2005.Weighinginat2,020pounds,thepastryrequired250 pounds of crust, 900 pounds of pumpkin,62gallonsofevaporatedmilk,1,860eggs,300poundsofsugarandsevenpoundsofcinnamon.

• Antarcticaistheonlycontinentwherepumpkinscan’tbegrown.


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