Last night we celebrated the holidays early with a bunch of friends. The theme of the party was "Breaking up Christmas", a holiday tradition in the southern Appalachians that extends from Christmas to Old Christmas (January 6) in which families and friends gather at each others homes for music and dancing. For the festivities we made some regional foods - including Kentucky Squirrel Burgoo (a stew of sorts in which we replaced the flying squirrel with textured vegetable protein), Persimmon pudding, cornbread, and wilted dandelion greens with morels. We made a mountain range out of old computer boxes and played a bunch of music. Lena plays her harmonica in the photo above with her friends Sophia, Eszter, and Rozi.
Paul playing music with Sean, Smith, and Genevieve.
Earlier in the night we attempted to make shakers out of paper strips. It turns out that these fall apart pretty readily (but then become fodder for other crafts).Playing last night (with friends and harmonica).
Some fun with/in packing material.
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