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...grandmother to show how to make soap from lye and lard. U.G. McCoy tells how to skin and cook a coon. There are home remedies, snake lore, weather signs, quilt patterns and stitches, faith healing and mountain recipes: carrot pudding, a century-old recipe for gingerbread, even fried pumpkin and Spanish blossoms...
...What two similar-named groups did "She Cried" and "Apples Peaches Pumpkin...
...Pumpkin Play. Mrs. Weber's chief importance nowadays is as a teacher of teachers. In her workshops, she hacks up pumpkins and blows on pinwheels and encourages her students to do the same, so they can learn what many find surprisingly difficult-to see "with the child's eyes." She then offers a childish question and asks them to imagine how a child might pursue it. In one workshop, for instance, the problem was: "How many questions can you think up about feet?" The answers from the student teachers ranged from counting toes to evolution...
...best day of my life." The only untoward incident took place when a somewhat confused woman sought free admission because, she told police, "I am Cinderella." The Disney cops, primed for any emergency, lured her away by telling her that their police car was a pumpkin...
Though mostly serious, Earth Week was not without its zany moments. Malcolm & Hayes, a New York publishing firm, brought out a book called Nursery Rhymes/For the Times. Sample: "Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater,/ Had a wife and wouldn't keep her;/ Her departure was most urgent,/ She kept washing with detergent." On a dare, an Ohio college student swam across Ohio's super-polluted Cuyahoga River-but only after donning a rubber wet suit and having himself inoculated against diseases that might be lurking in the brownish waters. "It wasn't the cold so much," he said afterward...