Blfr-UncasUr Farming, Saturday, April IS, 1987
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Joyce Bupp
a farm wife
Holidays have always been
special days, at least for most
families. They’re interludes of
celebration in a daily routine of
everyday life.
Through holiday celebrations,
families establish traditions, roots,
continuity. Sociologists in
creasingly seem to attribute a lack
of such family roots and stability to
a whole range of social and in
security problems in children.
We’ve always cherished certain
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holiday traditions, including those
that come with the Easter season.
But, as the offspring left those
early childhood years and began
maturing toward adulthood, I’ve
experienced a nostalgia for some
of the traditions they so loved as
youngsters, but take little note of
as they grow older.
Or so I thought.
“We ARE going to have an
Easter dinner, aren’t we?” was the
mixed question and command
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heard in the kitchen some days
ago.
Now, the number of heads that
can be counted around the table at
any given mealtime is no longer a
certainty. It might range from two
to five, occasionally six, depending
on whose friends happen to be
around at chow time.
Yes, there would be an Easter
dinner, extended family in
vitations would go out, and yes,
friends were welcome, too. What’s
one more mouth at a family
holiday dinner?
As for the menu, perhaps we
would deviate this year. Having
just refilled the freezer with
homegrown beef, a nice beef roast
(or, “roast beast” as we
sometimes refer to it) with all the
trimmings might do just fine for
Easter Sunday, I thought aloud.)
“What 9 No ham? You’re not
making ham for Easter!! ?”
Good grief. Selling the family
jewels (don’t worry, there aren’t
any) couldn’t have created any
more fuss.
When I didn’t give in im
mediately, they hauled out the big
guns.
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Grandma and tell her. She’ll make
ham and bring it for us.”
And Grandma would, you know.
With promises of ham on
demand conceded, we could turn to
yet another tradition.
“When are we going to color
Easter eggs?”
As they were growing up, we
often colored eggs once, twice,
perhaps even three times before
the day of the Big Bunny. But
recently, well, coloring eggs had
faded behind in importance.
Nevertheless, this point of
tradition, too, demanded com
mitment.
So, thus it came to be that, to the
blaring blast of punk rock on an
oversize silver “box,” the teenage
Easter egg creativity troop
rampaged through a dozen and a
half hardboiled blank canvasses,
assorted bottles of dye, one pan of
fresh brownies, and the milk to
which they have unlimited con
sumption rights in our kitchen.
To do so, they parked battered
skateboards, abandoned attempts
at thrashing their foodies for the
sake of this “sport,” and briefly set
free to color Easter eggs that little
kid which hopefully still lives
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somewhere in each one of us.
The traditional basket of colored
eggs now sits in the traditional spot
on the buffet, tribute to this blessed
Easter Day when we will definitely
(I promise!) eat the traditional
ham and sweet potatoes.
Colored eggs. Eggs which, when
you pay close attention, bear
totally untraditional skateboar
ding and punk rock symbols, and
bear ornately colored messages
like “Skate till you poop”
(skateboard fatigue) and silly
notations in that garbled lingo we
always knew as pig Latin.
Traditional ham. Punk, New
Wave, Easter eggs. Sometimes
even traditions have to be flexible.
Happy Easter.
Cumberland County
Executive Board
The Cumberland County Farm
Women Executive Board met April
6 at the Cumberland County Ex
tension Office.
Members presented ideas for
promoting interest in the
organization. One member made
the group aware of the pressure on
farmers concerning housing or
confining livestock in certain reas.
The state Spring Rally will be
held May 20 at Elizabethtown
College; 17 counties will send
representatives.
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