Easter Apparel Traditions Rooted in Ancient Spring Festivals
Folklore expert Christina Hole traces Easter dress customs back to pre Christian spring celebrations. New clothes mark joy at winter's end and remain common today with new hats or gloves often worn. In the past, gloves sent to a would be partner signaled courting success at Easter services. Cleaning the house for Easter also features in early history.
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Christina Hole
Miss Hole
United States
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White House
James Madison
Eastre
England
Local notes mix of families and travels across towns
A sprawling column threads stories of Newsbigle family heirs in Florida, Kiwanis show plans in Lennox, praise for coach Bob Dailey in Woodstock, maple syrup tips from Wason in New Boston, and social echoes from Bennington to Troy. Also folklore on Easter traditions and a cow rescue in Illinois.
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Roland Newsbigle
Slick
Frank
Clara Schurmann
Geremany
Bill
Toomey
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Tropic Isles
Clearwater
Fla
Franklin Arms Shop
Wilkes-Barre
Julius Schurmann
Stella
Krupp Mfg. Co
Newsbigle
Woodstock
Woodstock High
Paul Vickers
McAllen
Texas
George Wason
New Boston
N.H
Vermont
Wason
United States
California
Arlington Teacher Honored by Educators
Miss Anna Vaughn of Wilton Connecticut has been initiated into Delta Kappa Gamma international honor society for women educators. She teaches mathematics at Wilton Junior High and has experience from Sunderland Depot School to Cambridge New York.
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Anna Vaughn
Gilbert Vaughn
Nu Chapter
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Vaughn
Wilton
Conn
Sunderland
Shushan
N.Y
Cambridge
North Bennington
Miss Vaughn
College of St. Rose
Albany
Castleton State College
Wilton Education Association
Connecticut Education Association
National Education Association
Arlington School Lunch Menu Mixed Days and Holiday Note
The page lists a multi day school lunch menu from Monday to Friday with meals including beef noodle soup, spaghetti and meat sauce, macaroni and tuna salad, turkey gravy, salmon loaf, and other items with milk daily. It also notes Easter tomorrow and reflects on spring, religion, and a humorous family anecdote about church visits across the street from home.
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Hamburg
Wassick
Baptist Church
Bob
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Tom
St. Peter’s
Kindere
North
South America
Tommy
Mary Jean
Woman’s World Easter Thoughts in Garden Visit
A woman discusses Easter reflections and plans to attend church with a child, noting she will be picked up afterward. The exchange reflects family routines and religious observance during the holiday season.
Demonstration Days Planned By 4-H Groups
Fourteen 4-H members in Bennington Shaftsbury area form new Horse Club led by Lucella Stuart and Betty Johnson. Pownal Pioneers and Green Mountain Valley Girls discuss Demonstration Days and revived liquid embroidery project with April 4 and 11 events at local granges. Public invited.
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Shaftsbury
Lucella C. Stuart
Harwood Hill
Betty Johnson
Pownal
Green Mountain Valley Girls
North Pownal
Albert Dickinson
North District
Equinox Grange
Manchester
South District
Shaftsbury Taconic Grange
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Clifford F. Hunt
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Burlington Free Press
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Ethel Richmond
Safford Street
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Yugoslavia
Fas the Hare
Over the
Cambridge, Ill
Robert Hunter
Guernsey
Eis
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Miss Anna Vaughn
Molly Stark
Pownal School
By Jean Wassick
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By Ada Sue Diamond
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