November • 2011 • NEWSLETTER

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Nothing brings a family together like special times at the dinner table, so we gathered the ingredients for a new Reminisce book, Around the Table, and it’s now available to you. There’s a dash of holiday traditions at the table, a cup of kitchen bloopers, a platter full of dining out adventures and other savory treats, all stirred up from our readers’ anecdotes. Just click on the book cover at left to find out more about it.

Food and Thanksgiving memories are a mainstay of this month’s Reminisce newsletter, and we hope they rustle up your own warm holiday memories. As always, consider passing our bit of nostalgia along to a friend or family member who may occasionally enjoy living in the past. If you’ve received this from someone, go ahead and sign up yourself.

—John Burlingham at Reminisce

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In this issue:

• Prize Came After a Turkey Trot to Find a Ticket
• Picture From the Past
• Stirring Up Memories
• Off the Bookshelf
• Over the Back Fence
• Time Capsule Trivia
• A Thought to Remember

Prize Came After a Turkey Trot to Find a Ticket

By Cliff Moran
Bellingham, Washington

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Proudly carving our Thanksgiving turkey in this 1958 picture (at right) is our son Casey when he was 2-1/2 years old. The featured bird was one of several turkeys available to Sears Roebuck shoppers in Bellingham, Washington that year, but this one didn’t come easy for us.

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Picture From the Past

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Hospital Star Nite was an annual benefit show for the Long Island Industry Fund drive, with money going to local New York hospitals. In 1952, our group backed up Frank Sinatra. It was truly the thrill of my life to sing alongside Sinatra (in dark suit under nurse illustration). That’s me in the dark suit to the left of the famous singer.

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Stirring Up Memories

Mushroom Stuffing

The search to find the perfect stuffing is a lifelong crusade for some Thanksgiving cooks. Will simple say it? Does it need lots of onion, celery or even water chestnuts? Many people like to throw in nuts and raisins and have been known to add bacon grease and other sumptuous flavorings.

If you’d like to check out your options, look over this recipe and many more stuffing possibilities from our friends at Taste of Home.

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Off the Bookshelf

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By John Burlingham
Senior Editor

The cover photo of Philip Gulley’s book Front Porch Tales (Multnomah Publishers, 1997) couldn’t be any more perfect, inviting readers to sit a spell and listen to—actually, read—hometown stories like families used to trade on big porches all across America. In fact, reading aloud his short chapters of three to four pages is a great way to continue the tradition at your own place because it’s bound to bring up stories of your own.

Through memories of his paper route, Doc Foster the trash man, widow Stanley and a host of other personalities from his growing-up years and raising his own family, Gulley tells stories of family, faith, laughter and love as if he was in a front-porch rocker next to you.

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Over the Back Fence

This humorous poem by Ernest Vincent Wright describing a father’s attempts at carving a bird for dinner is sure to bring grins and visions of Thanksgivings past. The poem is shared by Dianne Daniels of Gold Beach, Oregon.

When Father Carves the Duck
We all look on with anxious eyes
When Father carves the duck,
And Mother almost always sighs
When Father carves the duck.

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Time Capsule Trivia

Hungry for a challenge as Thanksgiving approaches? Then feast your eyes on this refreshing musical menu! Check out the clues (inspired by the lyrics) and see if you can name these tasty tunes, many of which were popular platters in the 1920s through the ’40s.

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A Thought to Remember

Opportunity sometimes knocks at the least opportune moment.

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