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...part of its annual Harvestfest weekend (Oct. 25th-26th), the Publick House hosts a super-tasty pumpkin pie contest. The pumpkin pie baking official rules and regulations include that pies should be baked in a 9” non-returnable pie plate, no pre-made pies or mixes will be allowed, and commercial, industrial or professional bakers or anyone selling bakery products are not eligible to enter. Pies will be judged based on appearance, taste, texture and creativity of recipe. Other highlights of the weekend include a scarecrow contest and a pumpkin-decorating contest...
...Drunkenness: five shilling or a "publick confession...
...Shall Presume to put on or wear Indecent Apparrell, he shall be punished According to the Nature and degree Offence, by the President or one of the Tutors; but if he wears womens Apprell, he shall be liable to publick admonition, degradation or Expulsion...
...these, our first patriots, freedom of speech, even jarring, unpopular speech, was a right worth dying for. Paine upheld "the right of every man to his opinion, however different that opinion may be to mine." Franklin said, "Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as . . . publick liberty." Jefferson believed "uniformity of opinion" was no more desirable than uniformity "of face and stature." Staid George Washington warned against "the impostures of pretended patriotism...
...even these fortunate schollars couldn't talk to their more humble buddies in English, unless "called thereunto in publick exercise of oratory or the like...