chatter from the Library Monkey

closing up

Spent the night in the home town. The Winter Carnival secretary…

Next day, did some shopping and did some more winter carnival history.

Going to pack and close up tomorrow and head back to the home town.

I just found out that Bud who I worked with at the Chamber is retiring. On Dec. 12, they are having a mixer in his honor. I want to come back and wish him good luck. Imagine, beging able to retire at age 76…or something like that. i wonder what his plans are…he was a great guy to work with and I think about him from time to time.

Now it is two night later and I am in the school town. It has taken a lot out of me to load up the truck and hump it up a flight of stairs. and I keep it cold here with no fire place. Tried a nap, but no luck.

This weekend I listed to “Love, Star Girl,” on audio book and am reading “Finding Alaska.” I was able to close up the house. it took about 15 minutes to drain the hotwater tank. So I am here with another day to rest and maybe write a skit for my school. I have a pretty good idea of where I want to go.

Did a lot of listening to achive.org either when I had the internet, or downloaded concerts.

O and I did some shopping. Most of the time was spent working on the Winter Carnival History — it didn’t help me find a theme for a fable, like I thought it would

The history was a little frustrating, since there was a couple things that the village historian did or didn’t do. One was thee was little or no attribution where she got her information. She didn’t explain much. Like she would say that there were not as many winter carnivals as people think, but there isn’t a criteria what a ‘winter carnival’ is… I came up with a belief that a Winter Carnival the winter event if it had three of five activities: Parade, Coronation (i.e. royalty), an Ice Palace (sometimes called an Ice Fortress), multiple sporting events, fireworks

I believe that probably all Winter Carnivals had all five, but the history didn’t list some of the criteria, like maybe there was a king or queen (both), but that wasn’t listed.

The key might come down to ‘multiple sporting events,’ since I think there were many skating festival events that might have had a parade and even some kind of royalty.

In the modern era, the Winter Carnival not only has all five of those “A” list items, they also have what I consider “B” list items as well. B-list would be: Rotary Show, Woodsmen’s Exhibition, skating show, Children’s Parade
and/or dance

The Woodsmen have been one of the most active organizations, but because it has been low key.

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