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...Shortcake in a cool “Blossom”-style hat and jeans, even if the fact that Strawberry used to wear a way-old-school bonnet and dress never deterred the five-year-old-me from looking to her as my idol. Even the consistently classic Cabbage Patch form has diluted the name by adding on new products such as mini-Cabbage Patch “Pop Star” dolls, because “American Idol” is certainly fitting for a decidedly plump, dimpled kneed figure.My vastly growing 1980s children’s movies collection...
...true love. "There's nothing like planting a seed, nurturing it and harvesting it," says the owner of Siegel's Cottonwood Farms in Crest Hill, Ill., near Chicago. But Siegel admits that it is his annual Pumpkin Fest that keeps his farm afloat. Started in 1990, with a pumpkin patch and hayrides, Siegel's fall festival has mushroomed into a full-fledged theme park complete with haunted barns, a petting zoo, a 10-acre corn maze and snacks such as smoked turkey legs, kettle corn and funnel cake. The festival attracts more than 30,000 visitors each fall and brings...
...that distinction get in the way of their having a good time this weekend.The heavyweight varsity four—Harvard’s strongest entry in the regatta—carried their boat down to the Newell Boathouse dock wearing full pirate costumes, replete with eye patches for each of the oarsmen, gold hoop earrings, and black and red bandannas. “It’s Head of the Charles—it’s a lot of fun,” said heavyweight varsity two-seat Andrew Boston. “I warmed...
...buried 250 dead bodies," says one officer. "Everywhere around us: in people's gardens, in their fields, in any spare patch of earth. And there's 67 more we know of still under the rubble. And then there's all the soldiers." He points to the ridge line which encircles Kamal Kote and which marks the heavily fortified Line of Control separating Indian and Pakistani Kashmir. "Hundreds of dead bodies," he says. "Thousands. They're surrounding you." And by candlelight, he finds us a place to sleep on the soft, shaking earth...
...memories I can retrieve of nursery school and kindergarten are of afternoon naps after milk (which I didn't like) and cookies (which I did), curled up on a blanket on the floor of a classroom, often in a patch of sunlight coming through a window. It was so easy then to nap and wake up refreshed. I've had to relearn that process in my 60s--without the cookies...