The Village at Mill Landing APRIL 2020 • SOUNDS of SPRING
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The Village at Mill Landing APRIL 2020 • SOUNDS OF SPRING Fun Easter Facts Easter is upon us once again. But besides Peter Cottontail and his colorful eggs, how much do you really know about Easter? Sure, everyone’s Garden Club! heard the basics about this Attention all gardeners, it major Christian holiday. But is that time of year when when it comes down to how spring arrives and we must we celebrate Easter in a begin to make plans for modern sense — like how a giant rabbit and his love for candy came our vegetable gardens. into the picture — our traditions have evolved over time. This holiday We are very fortunate has changed a lot over the years, and there’s probably a modern day here at Mill Landing to fact or two on this list you haven’t heard. have raised garden beds, Easter Sunday is about way more than pretty pastels and chowing which make the work of down on all the chocolate you can eat; the fascinating history of how gardening much more we came to celebrate Easter is full of surprising and unexpected accessible and enjoyable. information. Before you attend mass with your family or sit down Although we cannot get for a delicious brunch, there’s a lot to learn about this holiday’s together in large groups, rich background. Impress your family and friends with these we still can share ideas interesting Easter facts that explain the little-known origins behind of what we would like to common traditions. plant. Please feel free to Think Easter egg hunts are odd? Listen to this medieval children’s give your ideas to Tracy. game: the priest would give one of the choir boys a hard boiled “Come Grow With Us” egg, and the boys would pass it amongst themselves until the clock struck midnight, when whoever was holding it then got to eat it. Sounds...fun? Old superstition held that if you wore new clothes on Easter, you would have good luck for the rest of the year. In fact it was so widely believed, that upper-class New Yorkers would quite literally strut their stuff coming out of mass in beautiful and well-to-do Fifth Avenue churches. This tradition become the basis of the modern, and decidedly less elitist, Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival in New York. There’s evidence showing that Easter eggs originated from Medieval 28. Warning device Warning 28. Europe and ChristiansHastily may50. not have actually been the ones to start 2 4 1 SCOOPR USSBETA 8 6 2 1 3 5 7 4 9 27. 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