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MIKE'S
COMMENTARY
THIS WEEK'S
SCHEDULE
NEWS &
NOTES BY SUE FOUST
MIKE'S
COMMENTARY AND BITS OF WISDOM:
Later, I'm festing now!!
Octoberfest--As we celebrate
today in the USA
One of the joys of being an American is that
we can lay claim to all sorts of ethnic festivals. Not Irish? Doesn't matter,
enjoy St. Patrick's day anyway. Not German? So what? Octoberfest is almost
as American as apple pie, these days. I mean, it's just an excuse to overindulge
in beer and wurst, right?
So what is this Octoberfest thing? The story
starts almost two hundred years ago, and it weaves together a king, his
bride, and left-over beer. Along the way, it mutated into a huge, 16-day
party and a special kind of beer.
I n September 1810, Crown Prince Ludwig and
Princess Therese were married. A celebration was held to mark the event
in a field outside Munich. It wasn't, at that point, a beer festival, but
more of a fair. Well, some savvy Bavarians figured they were onto a good
thing, and repeated the festival each year after that. Within 10 years,
it looked a lot more like the current-day Munich Octoberfest celebration,
centered on beer tents.
(I
love it.) Americans enjoy celebrating. Every month
has at least one special holiday. With Halloween pretty much
for kids... why not Octoberfest for the big guys and gals?
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Crown Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, was married to Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen on 12th October 1810. The citizens of Munich were invited to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal event. The fields have been named Theresienwiese ("Theresa's fields") in honor of the Crown Princess ever since, although the locals have since abbreviated the name simply to the "Wies'n". Horse races in the presence of the Royal Family marked the close of the event that was celebrated as a festival for the whole of Bavaria. The decision to repeat the horse races in the subsequent year gave rise to the tradition of the Oktoberfest. The Oktoberfest continues in
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In the first few decades the choice of amusements was sparse. The first carousel and two swings were set up in 1818. Visitors were able to quench their thirst at small beer stands which grew rapidly in number. In 1896 the beer stands were replaced by the first beer tents and halls set up by enterprising landlords with the backing of the breweries. The remainder of the festival site was taken up by a fun-fair. The range of carousels etc. on offer was already increasing rapidly in the 1870s as the fairground trade continued to grow and develop in Germany.. 172nd Oktoberfest 2005
And since the Oktoberfest is still held on the Theresienwiese, the locals still refer to the event simply as the "Wies'n". So "welcome to the Wies'n" means nothing other than "welcome to the Oktoberfest"! |
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Serve the grilled bratwursts on a bed of warm drained sauerkraut that has been sprinkled with caraway seeds. Offer a variety of mustards in small dishes. SALAD TIP
DESSERT TIP
DÉCOR TIP
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By The Way
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Wednesday Novemnber 10, The United States Marine Corps celebrated their 229th birthday. WOW!! That's a lot of birthdays. Congratulations Semper Fi.
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| A college student challenged a senior citizen, saying
it was impossible for their generation to understand his generation.
"You grew up in a different world," the student said. "Today we have
television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers..."
Taking advantage of the pause in the student's litany, the elder said, "You're right. We didn't have those things when we were young; so we invented them! What are you doing for the next generation?" |
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I'm so ugly... I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd get. |
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We downloaded the Avast antivirus program.
We installed and registered it. We never did get to the Mozilla Thunderbird
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| Snacks were abundent and super to the palate. Bert Rice brought in bagels smothered in cream cheese...delicious. Peg Masden brought Fresh Fruit just in time to ward off the oncoming flues and colds. Sue Clements brought very tasty Home Made Pumpkin Cookies (her pumpkin patch must have been hugh this year). Mary Dutton made an outstanding Pudding. Joan Summerson made a very moist and also delicious Apple Cake. I'm still full and it is Friday. |
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I had a very list of to
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And
for Drink--Might I suggest a litter or two of a good German Dark or a
Dortmunder Union or or a good domestic Yuengling or just a Bud. Whatever
froths your lips. 
