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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Happy Thanksgiving to all: From Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine, a November offering: "Casa Loma Stomp," by Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra * Stuffing dates with peanut butter is best done to the telecast of the Macy's Parade, though the coverage has been suffering from too many Broadway production numbers from Rent and not enough balloons like the old Eddie Cantor model * More vintage Macy's images: 1929 * 1933 * 1940 * 1958 * Accept no imitations: The Miracle on 34th Street, b&w, 1947 * Fannie Farmer offers two recipes for squash pie, I and II * Tom Fitzpatrick is hosting a WHRB-style Thanksgiving Orgy at his place, perhaps in atonement for his roots in Malden, on the wrong side of the geographic divide in the nation's second-oldest Thanksgiving rivalry * "Over the River and Through the Woods"? Composed in Medford. ("Jingle Bells," too, for that matter.) Here's more on the river over which one rode to get to Grandmother's house, and which now is a major motion picture * NFL.com last year noted the Massachusetts tradition of Turkey Day football: Needham and Wellesley boast the oldest high school rivalry in the country, but it is not the longest continuous Thanksgiving Day rivalry – it's been uninterrupted only since 1921. That honor belongs to the Boston Latin-Boston English Thanksgiving Day game, which has been played every year since 1887…Thanksgiving Day rivalries in Massachusetts that have been going for more than a century without interruption also include Malden-Medford (1889) and Brookline-Newton North (1899). Others that began more than 100 years ago, but have not been continuous: Lawrence-Lowell (1890), Amesbury-Newburyport (1891), Winchester-Woburn (1891), Fall River Durfee-New Bedford (1893), Fitchburg-Leominster (1894), Beverly-Salem (1900), and East Boston-South Boston (1901) * Thursday's Latin-English tilt at Harvard Stadium is the 117th in the series * Newburyport-Amesbury, 1995: I * II * III * For the sake of tradition in general, support your local Dutch Burke Society
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