Easter Eggs and Holiday Craft Traditions
An overview of creative Easter egg decorations and new ideas. It describes four egg designs including a cabbage rose motif, a cranky Aunt Nan, a jolly chap, and a fat baby face, with methods using tissue, lawn, and paints. It also notes blown shells for preservation, holiday eggs from turkey and duck, and child made greeting eggs. The piece ends with a German Easter nest custom and a note on the origin of the word Easter from pagan roots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nan
Germany
Easter Hat Plea Sparks Tiny Fashion Debate
Fragmentary dialogue reveals a quarrel over an Easter hat, value, and social expectations. One speaker pleads for a small pleasure while another questions the expense and purpose of lace flowers and finery tied to courting. The exchange hints at class, desire, and restraint within domestic life.
Bermuda Lily and the American Benefactor
The Bermudas honor Gen. Russell Hastings with a monument in Hamilton for transforming the island through Easter lily cultivation begun in 1876. His work boosted local prosperity as Bermuda became famed for the lily and its global exports brought by W. K. Harris and others.
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Bermudas
Bermuda
Hayes
Russel Hastings
White House
Washington
General Hastings
Hamilton
Detroit Free Press
Japan
United States
Philadelphia
Islands
W. K. Harris
Quaker City
Harrisii
America
Easter Dawn and Creation Myths in Verse
A poetic Easter meditation celebrates the risen Christ with dawn imagery and angelic chorus. It contrasts bright Easter praise with a brief outline of a Chinese creation myth describing the world formed from an egg and the division into seas and earth.
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Ane
Atl
Kodak
John
Mary
Bill
Wright A. Patterson
Charles of Orleans
Flower
Christ
Cook
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