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Show 3 Thursday, Nov. THE GREEN SHEET 24, 1988 HOLIDAY MEMORIES Holidays In A New Country Are Both Lonesome And Strange The first holiday season in a new country can be, to say the least, a cause for homesickness and a bad case of the blues. Its at the holiday season that family traditions, local celebrations and familiar surroundings , are most treasured, and when you have recently crossed 3,000 miles of ocean, you are bound to find differences. That is the key word to my first holiday season in America. Different. I came over in early September, so my first American holiday was Halloween. Coming from the "witch country of Pendle Hill, in Melissa Johnson service. The gifts were placed on tables, and after singing all good old Thanksgiving hymns, minister or priest would bless food which was then taken to poor, to hospitals and nursing homes. However, adjusting to the Great American Feast Day was no effort. We had tried to give our American servicemen friends a special meal on that day during the war years, so I knew what to expect. Christmas is not really so very different, but some customs I the the the the the missed, among them the annual Christmas pantomimes so dear to "Its A Swedish guests. Dec. dark-haire- Andrew KING SIZE BIG & TALL rWihttitslnnDl Prices "Christmas is a Swedish holiday for our family," says nineteen Melissa Johnson, year old daughter of Dale and Deanna Johnson, Sandy. "Dads folks are Swedish and they get together Christmas Eve for a Scandinavian style Christmas that is complete with lots of beautiful, dark brown Limpa bread. Dad always mixes up a big bath of delicious Bruna Burna which is a mixture of baked beans and vinegar," she adds. "It sounds odd, but everyone Suit Shirts Sport Coats Winter Jackets Slacks Sweaters Jeans meat balls and everyone brings their special dish. "Dads father, the late Oscar Johnson, started the tradition of serving a Swedish meal on Christmas Eve and the family is continuing it," says Melissa. "One of my favorite memories of Christmas is the tradition of the first gift, which is also a carryover from their family roots. "Everyone brings one of his own gifts from under his tree and Santa is on hand at the Swedish family party to hand out these gifts brought from home," she she laughs. "I always remember getting pajamas and Mom and Dad wanted that gift opened first." "Its fun watchi ng oTcf Vnovi e s of when the brothers and sisters in Dads family were young. After the gifts are opened they put on an old reel and its almost magic to see your Dad when he was a young man." Seasonal Storage When putting out your holiday decorations, place the everyday are temporarily items you replacing in the box in which the seasonal decorations were stored. This way theyre not stuffed haphazardly in cabinets and and are as neatly drawers, organized as the items replacing them were. Accessories 3544 So. 2700 West (Across from Valley Fair Mall) 969-773- 3 Metros loves it." "There is pickled fish, Swedish it is pajamas," the house should be to ensure luck in the coming year. Here in America, I always had caroling parties for my kids and they would bring their friends home for afterwards hot chocolate, doughnuts and cookies. And even though they are all grown, I still read Dickens "Christmas Carol" every year. On New Years Eve, the Mummers came to call. This group would enter your home silently and without speaking would sweep the hearth and leave. Their visit guaranteed a warm hearth and luck in the new year. And, on New Years morning, the first person to enter MEN'S CLOTHING Christmas Eve" For The Dale And Deanna Johnsons explains. "Usually out the season. is Boxing Day, traditionally the day when people box up left over goodies to give to servants or the poor. In my childhood, it was also the day we took gifts to friends, and went to the pantomime. Christmas lasted longer in England, with Twelfth Night parties on Jan. 6 rounding 26 car care centers OVER 340 DEALERS NATIONWIDE HI Independent tire group in the World! Olga Milius northern England, I thought I knew all there was to know about Halloween also known as Duck Apple Night. So, imagine my surprise when to the door came hordes of children, in costume and begging treats while threatening none were if reprisals forthcoming. "How can parents let their kids go out begging," I asked in horror. Halloween to me had meant ducking for apples, magic, such as throwing an apple peel over your left shoulder to learn the initial of the person you were going to marry, and making plans for the much-mor- e exciting Guy Fawkes night on Nov. 5. 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