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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1978
Page
6
A survey of unusual getaways and quirky hobbies catalogs 218 million Americans seeking break from routine. From coon-dog contests in Saluda to goeduck digging on Washington shores, the piece highlights offbeat trips, local rites, and eccentric traditions across states.
A collage of quirky American pursuits and events fills the page from fishing with a bow to marbles in Wildwood. Highlights include salmon hunts from Alaska to Juneau, a national marbles tournament, summer festivals, bed races in Young America, hot air balloon championships in Indianola, pipe smoking contests in Des Moines, a dowser convention in Danville, and frontier reenactments at Fort Bridger culminating in a Buffalo stew dinner.
Kevin Mooney, 33, named director of SIU Carbondale family practice residency. He recounts a career spanning Ottawa, Faro Yukon, Whitehorse, Zambia, Rhodesia, and South Africa, where high risk obstetrics shaped his skills. Mooney emphasizes SIU’s primary care mission and hints at possible future return to Africa.
Psychologist Margaret Harmon surveyed 80 Philadelphia and Washington area women to explore how home decoration mirrors gender roles. Her book Psycho Decorating contrasts the deferential curved-line style with the achiever straight-line style, linking curved furnishings and dark traditional interiors to conformity and openness to others, while straight lines and lighter officeside rooms reflect rationality and independence.
A writer discusses how interiors reflect personality, citing a book by Mrs. Harmon on how decor signals traits such as achievement and deferential behavior. The piece notes critiques of simplistic psychology and suggests congruence between self and home, with examples from plants and room designs.
A Parma Heights housewife cleaned her oven for a first time and asked Bombeck for a card for that moment. Bombeck muses on missing occasions that deserve greetings and imagines humorous or warm card ideas for everyday milestones and traumas alike.
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