10 THE GREEN SHEET Monday, December 22, 1986 Smell Chestnuts On An Open Fire Hear The Song . by Olga Milius Green Sheet Staff Writer GRANGER. "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire - Jack Frost nipping at your nose"- - winter memories encompass all the emotions and nostalgia of Christmas, but there are also other fondly remembered moments that happen only in the colder months of the year. For instance, I only have to hear that song to smell the aroma of the chestnuts which we would place on a shovel on the fire during a winter evening and roast them until the your heart."' They did, too. You could cradle that hot, brown spud in your freezing hands and feel the heat go right down to your toes. Then, when your hands were warm enough, "pop" the too. skin and enjoy the warmth inside of Or, how about hot roasted you. And I often wish he was around potatoes? There was a little old man d and his family, who on a when I have to go out on a cold night. cold winter evening would park his Christmas itself lasted from early handcart near the railroad station in December until Twelfth Night, Jan. a Lancashire town I knew; and as 6, the end of the "Twelve Days of we left the station we would hear his Christmas." Caroling went on through that call, "Hot roast potatoes guaranteed to warm the cockles of night. Trees stayed up, decorations skins popped and the warm nuts were ours for the eating. I haven't roasted chestnuts in more than 40 years, but I can still smell them when I hear that song. And remember how they tasted, 2 fiP not-so-ol- Contract Carpets, CLARK Meta"ut' WooditrIsHMI.15 L SWSl. M" SmT r Sk Jk ffiiii At222MF . 566"9876 JENKINS-SOFF- 298-516- $0$ "L1L 64 E. 6400 So. JP Wppj; S P Ti SUBARU - 1 Mpt0 . W-- r Wi CHERLYNN'S haiimao1 a&t 76i SUPPLY so. 400 west LARRY MILLER WHLEY 1 sP 4735 So. state 262-247- 9 2? ' : , 'taJlM. SlrT ; 292-720- 4 . 1 ; V 'm : : J0l HENRY J ,1 H vSBl ' TtwKMm - BOUNTIFUL suRU P9K2 lllii 800 South Main "'" "Vlf BfikSK , FA "1(811 . VALLEY FORD 5800 South State aldiwit 'MOoT 1 Ywi8tHwiu JSSSF W ''"""'JLLs 3 .wwjwn 2280 South State LZZT BlEP t Beautify lAflfS II HAYKBROTffiRS 268-373- MURRAY 566-785- 5 - BOUNTIFUL - MEYtH 5680 South Stote 262-266- Insulate, Protect W SMilML' coating 5601 So. State 265-222- ; Mkm yjy-- ROCKY MOUNTAIN HYUNDAI W wSXI l K vfllARRY H. MILLER 263,3883 "fast service" zWMWmi 3 " SoBbIK fc 'JSS MHiB HSi 266-883- 3 433$tIrte9Street 47M40222a,e 15 3535 South St. hamci Jeea Renault MORTUARY ' nuts. Continued on page j5Mll" SPARTANo E Columbine, clowns, jesters, kings and queens, fairies, even animals. And the dances included the traditional Sir Roger de Coverly, as well as round dances offering a change in Games partners after each stanza. GatherWe Go "Here include might ing Nuts In May," "Who, When, Where? " or "The Minister's Cat;" And the food always included all kinds of tarts - lemon curd, jam, mincemeat, chess; and, of course, trifle, thick with clotted cream and decked with candied cherries and the first person to cross your threshold on New Year's morning. Rather than leave that to chance, many familes, owning a dark-haire- d husband or son of their own, would send him out in the early hours to circle the block (row houses being common) and enter by the front door, "letting in the New Year" the way it should be done and, again, assuring the household of a for' tunate year ahead. Twelfth Night parties were big. Most were costume parties, offering a chance to dress up as knights and ladies of old, or as Harlequin and were in place, the whole exciting atmosphere of the holidays and the warmth it brings to winter were ours to enjoy. ; Among the customs in our part of the world was a visit by the New Year's Eve mummers. Groups of young people would visit the home, enter without knocking and silently sweep the hearth. No word was to be exchanged as they performed their service and left, but the visit was a guarantee of good luck in the coming year. Always provided, of course, you man was made sure a dark-haire- d . . . S.DAY : 'A WBQ -.'. ipHp