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YMCA (continued): slave Anthony Bowen. Bowen was the first black employee of the U.S. Patent Office, where he rose through the ranks from laborer to messenger to a clerkship. Three years later, there was further growth of the organization when the first student YMCA was established in Lebanon, Tennessee’s Cumberland University, with the purpose of developing and promoting leadership qualities in college students. • 1856 was also the year that the YMCA conducted what is believed to be America’s first English as a Second Language class, serving German immigrants at the Cincinnati, Ohio, YMCA. The Y went on to offer large-scale higher education classes in 1893, when the Boston Y offered liberal arts and vocational classes. Sixty years later there were 20 colleges across America operated by the YMCA. In 1946, about 130,000 students were taking courses through the YMCA. • The Y began providing lodging in the 1860s. Chicago opened Farwell Hall in 1867, the first YMCA dormitory, named for its benefactor, dry goods magnate John V. Farwell. The building included a parlor, library, and gymnasium. Unfortunately, it burned down the following year. It was rebuilt, only to be lost to fire again two years later. The third Farwell Hall endured until 1893, when it was replaced with a facility that contained a new gym, swimming pool, and bowling alley. • Even railroad workers had their own YMCA, organized in Cleveland in 1872 to offer safe and affordable overnight lodging for workers in transit. In 1875, San Francisco founded an Asian Y to attend to the needs of their large Chinese population, while Flandreau, South Dakota, became home to the first Native American YMCA in 1879. (continued on next page)

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Christmas Punch Bowl If you were getting ready for the traditional Christmas party in 1860s England, you might have been searching the storage cupboards for the holiday punch bowl. Colorful, decorative majolica serving pieces were popular then, and George Jones made some of the best. Starting in 1866, he made covered dishes for cheese, game pie and even sardines. Special dishes were made for honey, cake, oysters, butter, berries, biscuits or other foods. All were decorated with raised flowers, leaves or figures glazed in bright colors.

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Jones was joined by his sons in 1873, and the company name was changed to “George Jones & Sons.” George died in 1893, the company was sold in 1929 and the name was changed by 1951. Early pieces are marked with the overlapping letters “GJ” in a circle until 1873, when a crescent with “& sons” was added. Majolica lost favor and was considered “kitsch” until about 1970, when it began to be used by decorators on the East Coast. Today, George Jones majolica is expensive. The amusing Christmas punch bowl that is decorated with holly and held by the famous pup-

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YMCA (continued): • The Holyoke, Massachusetts Y was the site of the invention of another popular sport. In 1896, YMCA instructor William Morgan blended parts of basketball, tennis, and handball into a new game he called “mintonette.” The name was later changed to volleyball. • In 1950, a volunteer at the Greenwich, Connecticut YMCA developed the game of racquetball as an option for those who enjoyed squash and handball. None of the YMCA instructors who invented the games were paid for their creations, but bestowed it on the North American public who enjoyed the sports. • The world’s oldest surviving basketball court is located in a basement of the Paris, France YMCA. This YMCA was designed by a student of Gustave Eiffel. The basement is also home to a bowling alley and France’s first indoor pool. The basketball court at Springfield, Massachusetts was the first, but it was destroyed by a fire, giving the Paris court, built in 1892, the distinction as the oldest survivor. • In 1909, George Corsan became the head swimming instructor at the Detroit YMCA, with a goal of “teaching every man and boy in North America” to swim. He was the first to originate group swimming lessons, the first to teach beginners the crawl stroke, the pioneer of the modern butterfly stroke, and the inventor of water wings. He traveled the country conducting group lessons, once teaching 1,500 boys and girls to swim in just one week. During World War I, he trained entire military regiments to swim. By 1932, over a million people were swimming at YMCAs. • The disco group The Village People released their hit single “YMCA” in 1978, a song that remains popular today and is played at many sporting events. In 1979, the actual YMCA organization reportedly sued the group for copyright/trademark infringement. The case was later dropped.

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DRAGON BLOOD TREE (continued): • The broad shelter of the umbrella also protects new dragon tree seedlings, as well as providing a suitable habitat for other species to flourish underneath its shelter. The tree grows slowly, eventually reaching a height of up to 33 feet (10 m), and has a long life, with some as old as 650 years. • Leaves are found only at the tips of the youngest branches, and all leaves are shed every three or four years, with new leaves simultaneously maturing. It flowers in February, with the white or greenish flowers growing at the very ends of the branches in small clusters. The fruit takes five months to develop, and is a small fleshy berry that changes from green to black to orange-red as it ripens. The berries are food for birds and domestic livestock, and consumption of the fruit is reported to improve the health of the local cows and goats. • During the 18th century, the deep red sap was used as a source of varnish for Italian violin makers, and is believed to have been responsible for the rich color of Stradivarius violins. Today the sap is still used as a stimulant, in astringents, lipstick, toothpaste, and paint, and as an anti-inflammatory. It remains part of pagan witchcraft spells for love and protection. A Brief History of Fruitcake (cont’d)

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By Lucie Winborne “There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep passing it around.” -- Johnny Carson Love it or loathe it, fruitcake goes back a looong way. Legend has it that ancient Egyptians valued it enough to place their version on the tombs of their loved ones, while Roman soldiers carried a ring-shaped concoction of pomegranate seeds, pine nuts and barley mash (continued)

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to the battlefield. (Portable and durable -- some things never change!) If that doesn’t sound especially appetizing, by the Middle Ages, preserved fruit, spices and honey brought the dessert closer to what we serve today. Of course, then as now cooks were prone to experiment. Medieval Italians liked their panforte (strong bread) dense and spicy-sweet. Buttery, sugar-coated German stollen dates to the 15th century. Then there’s “black cake,” a booze-soaked Caribbean favorite descended from British plum pudding. By the 18th and 19th centuries, fruitcakes were a popular feature at weddings and holidays (though how they acquired their association with Christmas is unclear), but not cheap to make. And would you believe that at one point they were actually outlawed in Europe for the crime of being “sinfully rich”? However, since their brand of decadence had become an important aspect of tea time (especially among the Brits), the law eventually was repealed. So far, so good. Then how did this poor loaf become the Rodney Dangerfield of desserts, even a synonym for somebody who’s not quite right in the head? Some think it has to do with early 20th-century mass production and mail order. Others blame it on sugar -- cheap sugar, imported from the American colonies, that not only made the loaf’s fruits brighter and more flavorful, but allowed previously unavailable varieties to be imported from around the world. More candied fruit equaled more cake. Ever heavier cake. Ever more garish-looking cake. Today’s fruitcake recipes are almost as varied as the cooks who bake them, but most hold to one hallowed rule: that they be made a month (or even a year!) in advance to deepen the flavor. For additional zest, many “feed” the cake by splashing whiskey, brandy or rum over it. But what if you’d frankly rather face a root canal than a forkful of this holiday treat? Consider a visit to the town of Manitou Springs, Colorado, where the good folks gather each January for the Annual Great Fruitcake Toss. Admission is cheap -- a nonperishable canned good for a local food bank -- and you’ll have a blast hurling, tossing or launching any unlucky loaf you’ve been reluctantly gifted with. Heck, you may even win a trophy. Closer to home, various suggested uses for unwanted fruitcakes range from foot rests to cat scratching posts. Use your imagination! Just don’t imagine that fruitcake’s going away anytime soon. (c) 2017 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Dec. 24th — Christmas Eve 4:00 PM — in Church 4:10 PM — in Church Hall 6:30 PM PM (continued): — THE “X” 10:00 FACTOR Mass in the Holy Night (NO MIDNIGHT) • Do you suffer from xeroderma? If you have abnormal dryness of the skin, this term applies to you! • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on Dec. 25th — Christmas Day the Mediterranean Sea sailed a AM small three7:00 AM, 8:30 AM, 10:00 masted vessel with square and triangular sails & 12:00 NOON that enabled them to sail faster than their prospective victims. Depending on the size of the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 Saturday Dec.on30th — guns might be mounted the vessel. Holyxenia Family 5:00 of PMmeanings. • The word has (Vigil) a variety To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown to those far Dec. from 31st home. the Family botanist, it’s Sunday — To Holy the effect of pollen on a seed. And to those in 7:00 AM, 8:30 AM, 10:00 AM Ohio, it’s the county NOON seat of — Greene County, & 12:00 a community about 21 miles (34 km) from NO EVENING VIGIL FOR Dayton. SOLEMNITY OF MARY • Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes Mondayexercise Jan. 1stduring — Solemnity of Mary would inclement weather. Holy Day of Obligation 8:30 AM — To the Romans, the xystus was the garden AM NOON where they walkway 10:00 in front of 12:00 the porticoes, NO MASS AT 7:00 AM planted flower beds. • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest. • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix. Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants with yellow stems are xanthopous. To those suffering from the abnormal vision condition known as xanthopsia, everything they see seems to have a yellow hue.

Say, kids, what time is it? It’s Howdy Doody Time! Tidbits is commemorating Howdy Doody Day on December 27 with these curious findings. • “The Howdy Doody Show,” which premiered on NBC on December 27, 1947, was the first nationally-televised children’s show. It featured celebrity host Buffalo Bob Smith, dressed in cowboy garb, along with a freckle-faced marionette Howdy Doody, voiced by Smith. The show premiered on December 27, 1947, and ran until September 24, 1960, after a run of 2,343 programs. • The show was one of the first series to be produced at NBC’s studio in Rockefeller Center, as well as one of the forerunners of color TV. It started out as an hour-long program on every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 5 PM, but within a year was airing Monday through Friday for 30 minutes, the first NBC show to air five days a week. It was also the first show to air more than 1,000 continuous episodes. • The studio was set up with bleachers with room for about 40 children, an area known as the Peanut Gallery. After Buffalo Bob shouted out, “Say kids, what time is it?” and they answered, the kids sang the show’s theme song, set to the tune of “Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay.” 3rd Quarter 2016 • The original Howdy Doody puppet was created byWeek a puppeteer 34 named Frank Paris. As the program’s popularity grew, the demand for August 14 -August 20 merchandise multiplied. Macy’s department Page 8 Frank Paris, wanting to disstore contacted tribute Howdy Doody dolls and related items. Although Paris had created Howdy, Buffalo Bob owned the rights to the character. When Paris approached Bob about being cheated out of revenue, a dispute arose between the men. The result was that Paris grabbed the puppet – the only one there was – and stormed out of the studio shortly before the live show, leaving the show with no star. (continued on next page)

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