Strange Local Traditions

[not_nadine]

This is crazy, nottie. For not wearing a bonnet?

Yes, I remember they took my oldest sister away. Had a fake jail and all. Doused with the hoses. I hid by the WW2 cannon in the little park. Got caught.

Wow, that really does sound terrifying. It was, now that I think on it. I had a pea shooter.

Small town America.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Well, we have Zombie Walk that's loads of fun. The most fun was the first time I discovered we had one, because I did not know, and we came out of a restaurant downtown and the street was crawling with zombies.

Spoiler

 

[HollyGolightly]

Yes, I remember they took my oldest sister away. Had a fake jail and all. Doused with the hoses. I hid by the WW2 cannon in the little park. Got caught.

Horrifying! That needs to be a scene in a horror movie.

 

[mcpon14]

Well, we have Zombie Walk that's loads of fun. The most fun was the first time I discovered we had one, because I did not know, and we came out of a restaurant downtown and the street was crawling with zombies.

Spoiler

That looks awesome.

 

[not_nadine]

At least there was a parade after, with all the good ladies wearing hats.

 

[AnnaMarie]

Mummers also seems like something that would be in a SK novel. We even have an entire channel on my cable provider dedicated to Mummers... Mummers TV... All Mummers All The Time. You should appreciate that being from the Philly area.

I thought Mummers were only in Newfoundland.

 

[AnnaMarie]

The type of mummers we have in Newfoundland are not like the parade kind. People dress up and go door to door with their faces hidden. They are welcomed in for a drink of wine or whiskey, etc. One must guess who they are. There is usually music, too.

It's Newfoundland. Of course there's alcohol and music. There must be food too.

 

[staropeace]

It's Newfoundland. Of course there's alcohol and music. There must be food too.

Yep....there was usually food. No body can party like Newfies lol.

 

[blunthead]

Every year near the end of October strange children come demanding free candy.

 

[niro]

We have a tradition that's about being 25 and not married yet.

Women are called old biddy/ alte Schachtel literally old box in german. And men are called old sock (alte Socke).

So as a visible sign for the neighbours you put a circel of small boxes or socks on their houses.

Of course their will be a party and shots involved.

Their are also a tradition regarding being 30 and not married yet.

 

[summer_sky]

I thought Mummers were only in Newfoundland.

And, I thought Mummers were solely a Philadelphia thing!
We even have an annual parade celebrating Mummers
Welcome to PhillyMummers.com

Here are a couple of Philadelphia boys who are sons of a Mummer singing about it
Born The Son Of A Mummer

 

[summer_sky]

We have a tradition that's about being 25 and not married yet.

Women are called old biddy/ alte Schachtel literally old box in german. And men are called old sock (alte Socke).

So as a visible sign for the neighbours you put a circel of small boxes or socks on their houses.

Of course their will be a party and shots involved.

Their are also a tradition regarding being 30 and not married yet.

Niro, where is this?

 

[summer_sky]

<snip>
They also had an Apple Blossom Festival every spring. That in itself should not seem odd. When I was growing up, quite a lot of the town was taken up with apple orchards and the festival made perfect sense. Then, in the Boomtown '80s, all the apple farmers became real estate tycoons and all the orchards became neighborhoods.
They still hold the Apple Blossom Festival every May, but the only actual blossoms in the town -- apart from a small, token, touristy orchard out by the interstate -- flower on the town common.
I'm not sure what I like better ... tradition, or irony.

Ha! yeah! I know the story well. Some call that progress... however, I wonder...

We celebrate Apples and the orchards here, too.
In the Spring, there is the Apple Blossom Festival and the entire county is gorgeous with the trees blossoming.
About Us
But, the BIG celebration is in the Fall with the National Apple Harvest Festival.
National Apple Harvest Festival - Home

 

[niro]

Niro, where is this?

Lower Saxony North west part of Germany.

I didn't took the pictures by myself but it looks like this.

 

[summer_sky]

niro, that's an interesting tradition! I am in need of socks. I think I will relocate to Lower Saxony North!
I wonder how it came to be socks, of all things??

 

[niro]

niro, that's an interesting tradition! I am in need of socks. I think I will relocate to Lower Saxony North!
I wonder how it came to be socks, of all things??

You take socks which have little holes in it so no new ones..

A unmarried man is just called old sock in german.

 

[summer_sky]

lol, this tradition makes me giggle, niro.
I can imagine all the townspeople saving bags and bags of socks with holes for years and waiting for one of their friends to turn 25. I can well imagine the pressure to find a spouse!! LOL

What is the tradition for turning 30 and unmarried!?

 

[CrimsonKingAH]

I don't know of any strange local traditions around here.. well, they aint strange to me anyways.. hahahaha

 

[AnnaMarie]

And, I thought Mummers were solely a Philadelphia thing!
We even have an annual parade celebrating Mummers
Welcome to PhillyMummers.com

Here are a couple of Philadelphia boys who are sons of a Mummer singing about it
Born The Son Of A Mummer

The Newfies have a song too.

 

[Sundrop]

...well, we have our annual Dickens's Victorian Village here in beautifully bucolic Cambridge, Ohio....

...a sample of the mannequins that line our Main Street, or as I call them-the "burn victims"....
...now I salute the holiday spirit and tourism this stuff is supposed to promote....but really "Dickens" in Appalachia????....should be a bunch of drunk rednecks staggering around...but I guess that would be like every other day come to think of it...but the Courthouse light show IS cool....

You should have been here in February.......Brains could have used a little help with the boat.