THANKSGIVING
Harvest}
holiday
(recalled)

THANKSGIVING in the ci-
ty is quite a lot different
from in small rural com-
munities. For instance, how
many kids around here get
the fun of harvesting the
family’s winter crop of
vegetables?

As a kid, I got the wonderful,
character-building job of clearing
out the kitchen garden. Carrots,
probably a thousand of them,
waited patiently, to be dug, clean-
ed, loaded into boxes and hauled
into the cellar.

Potatoes — maybe a few more
of them, longing, I’m sure to stay
right where they were for another
few weeks. Not a chance. My
mother grew them, my father ate
them and J bloody-well dug them.

I got my dog into the act and he
was very enthusiastic. My mother
caught sight of half her potatoes
energetically clawed and did a
1950's version of freaking-out. My
father commended my dog-train-
ing ability and poured himself a
stiff drink,

by Barbara
McCreadie

We sure ate a tot of potatoes in
the next few weeks. But, coming
from a Scottish-Irish-German fam-
ily that wasn’t much of a change.

We rarely had turkey for
Thanksgiving. First, there were on-
ly three of us and turkeys, then,
came in one size — big. The
range-fed gobblers had legs as
long, and as stringy, as jackrabbit.

However, the local Hutterites
sold chickens at bargain prices.
Dad would buy about 30 of them,
plucked but with everything else
intact.

1 can remember my Dad running
through the house with the gizzard
impaled on the carving fork. ‘‘If
you can catch me, you get half!”’

He didn’t run very fast and I'd
get my half.

I never cook a bird without do-
ing the gizzard. The only ones in
my family willing to chase me
through the house, for half, are
cats.

et

I’m not going to give you any
Thanksgiving recipes.

Here’s a couple of hints that I’ve
put together over the years to
make things easier:

*Make your stuffing(s) away
ahead, like today, and freeze them
— not anywhere inside a turkey!
© Pare your vegetables the day be-
See Tips
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NORTH VANCOUVER-based Anna Wyman Dance
Theatre leaves Oct. 22 for a 10-stop national tour.

The company will perform mixed programs selected
from the following repertoire: City Piece, Takada,
Adastra, Cadenza, A Dancer's Circus and Danice is ...
This and This.

Each stop’s program is specifically chosen by Anna
Wyman to include a wide variety of styles. Students
will be delighted with the zany characters of A
Dancer's Circus, while dance connoisseurs will be
drawn into the intensity and musicality of Takada.

The itinerary began with a three-day residency in
Nakusp, B.C. from Oct. 1 to 3. An evening concert,

35 - Wednesday, October 8,

national tour

four lecture7demonstrations and workshops in sound
and lighting, costuming and creative dance were pres-
ented. Workshops were open to all members of the
community and the surrounding area.

The company’s first performance is in Moncton,
N.B., Oct. 23. From Moncton they will travel through
Quebec and Ontario performing and presenting
master classes and workshops.

The technical crew travels a large amount of
equipment, transforming local gymnasiums into ex-
travagant mobile theatrical settings. Anna Wyman
Dance Theatre has received an international reputa-
tion for creating the bizarre, the magical and the
elegant.

1986 - North Shore News

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