Dear All,
Easter, like all "special days" serves a valuable place in our lives.
Most of us mark special memories(both good and not so good)on
holidays. For example, how many remember what we did the day before
the holiday, or the day after? While Easter was no big deal in our
family, I remember special family gatherings, and early picnics on
Easter Sunday. My first attempt at fishing was on Easter Sunday,
1940. My first kiss...other than from my mother...following church on
Easter Sunday, 1945, when Nancy Landen startled me by turning quickly
around as we rounded the corner outside the church and said, "Look at
my nose!" And she grabbed my head and smacked me squarely on the
lips.
And I recall an Easter Sunday many years later, 1959, when my cousin
Ron and I attended Sunrise Service at Volunteer Park, after having
stayed up all night drinking. We must have stunk because people
around us got up and moved.
Ah yes, sweet, sweet memories...mostly.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/5/21, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Easter isn't that exciting around here. We ordered Mcdonalds for lunch. NinaDear All,
got a fillet of fish and I got a quarter pounder with cheese. The fries were
good.
Frank
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Easter Parade
I remember too! My Mom always made my 2 sisters and me new outfits for
Easter. Yes, there were new white gloves and shiney patent leather shoes and
ruffley socks until we were teenagers, when Easter might become the
occasion for our first pair of nylon stockings. I remember mine when i also
wore a beautiful pale blue suit, every stitch sewed by our mother, and my
first pair of tiny heels. We probably came home from church to feast on the
very same Easter dinner we feasted on today — ham and deviled eggs, potato
salad and asparagus! It was our first holiday dinner with 3 of our 6
children and their spouces at the table — in more than a year, and the
newest member of our family, 6-week old baby Brooks, who is our sixth
grandchild. No church or Easter bonnets for any of us, but lots of
Springtime hope! Happy Easter!!
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On Apr 4, 2021, at 4:12 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Carl,
You and I are probably the only 2 people on this list who know those
lyrics.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Easter Parade
When I was a boy, I longed for the day when I could do all the "fun stuff"
that wwent on in the big city. Along with dining in the fine restaurants
and attending live theater, I would imagine myself marching in the Easter
Parade in all my finery. And of course, on my arm would b Elizabeth
Taylor.
And we'd be singing, "In your easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it,
You'll be the grandest lady in the easter parade.
I'll be all in clover and when they look you over, I'll be the proudest
fellow in the easter parade..."
Carl Jarvis
On 4/4/21, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wonder if anyone remembers the song, Easter Parade by Irving Berlin?
The Easter Parade was a real event which took place on Fifth Avenue each
year.
Perhaps it still did, until Covid. People dressed up in their new
spring finery and traveled into Manhattan from whatever borough in
which they lived, and strolled along, looking at the other people in
their new spring clothes and at the windows of fancy department
stores. The important thing was people's hats. Celebrities and
wealthy people wore extravagantly fashioned hats with colorful feathers
and sometimes, unusual constructions.
My father worked in a millinery factory so my mother and I always had
new hats, but they were not extravagantly fashioned, just new hats in
good taste. You young people may not realize it, but well dressed
women always wore hats and gloves when they went out. Because my aunt
and uncle lived in Washington D.C. and my mother and I often spent
the Easter holidays there, we attended their Easter Parade which took
place on connecticut Avenue, which was Washington's equivalent of
New York's Fifth Avenue. As a child, I was always given a chocolate
Easter egg and sometimes a little toy rabbit or fluffy baby chicken.
I spent summers on my grandmother's chicken farm. Baby chickens are
kept in a very warm room when they first hatch and they're adorable.
Miriam
