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Volume 14, Issue 9<br />
Dan Roberts<br />
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Ray Sarbacker<br />
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Debbie Landry<br />
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Rana Goodman<br />
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Evan Davis<br />
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Sam Wagmeister<br />
Stu Cooper<br />
Rich Natole<br />
Ary Mirochnik<br />
Michael Roberts<br />
Lou Lozitsky<br />
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Bill Caserta<br />
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Changing Tradition<br />
By: Adrea Nairne-Barrera / 60s to 60<br />
It’s that time again! I love autumn and<br />
all the fun stuff we get to do when it’s not<br />
blazing outside. We sit in the yard after dinner; we<br />
walk dogs without having to put booties on their paws and can finally<br />
remember why we waited out the summer.<br />
Best of all, the power bill goes down. Things just get better all around.<br />
So now it’s time to prepare for those Norman Rockwell moments<br />
when we celebrate the holidays with traditional family bonding<br />
dinners. There are movies made about all the chaos and conflicts, but<br />
they usually end with the entire group sitting down in a Connecticut<br />
dining room that seats 18 - all toasting each other.<br />
Thanksgiving calls for turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, pies, stuffing,<br />
mashed potatoes (you can never have too many potatoes) and<br />
whatever family recipe has been passed through generations for more<br />
food than any average human can consume. Thanksgiving is on a<br />
Thursday, so we can be sure to have leftovers for the entire weekend<br />
since no one can move for about 3 days anyway.<br />
This is, by far, my favorite holiday, but for a different reason than<br />
most. I was adopted and brought home to my parents just before<br />
Thanksgiving. It became my special time and I can be very territorial<br />
about it. Nobody messes with my Thanksgiving!<br />
Lately I’ve been thinking I should change it up. I’ve seen some<br />
funny reruns of “Everyone Loves<br />
Raymond” where Debra serves<br />
fish but sure enough, Marie shows<br />
up with a turkey anyway.<br />
And then on the soap opera<br />
“General Hospital” they always<br />
have a disaster on Thanksgiving<br />
and wind up eating pizza. (And yes, I have watched that soap since<br />
the 60s.)<br />
For years when I was in the television industry, we used to have<br />
huge dinners because so many actors were away from home working<br />
on shows. They may have been shooting the next day, so we had the<br />
holiday at our house with up to 30 or 40 people I barely knew.<br />
Now I have a small house, and many loved ones are gone, so I have<br />
the perfect opportunity to scale things down. Yet last year, we managed<br />
to have 10 for dinner, sent food for another 6 to a friend’s home and<br />
followed the standard menu choices.<br />
I think the lesson of the day is that no matter how much I would like<br />
to do something quirky or change it up, I cannot mess with tradition. I<br />
imagine we’ll do it again this month.<br />
Adrea Nairne-Barrera’s writing focus these days are on<br />
observations, celebrations and complaints about life in the 1960s<br />
to being in your 60’s. You can contact her at: sixties2sixty@<br />
yahoo.com<br />
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Adrea Barrera<br />
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Crystal Sarbacker<br />
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