OCTOBER 2018 The Springs of Scottsdale Postage 3212 N Miller Rd Information Scottsdale AZ 85251 The Springs Of Scottsdale 3212 N Miller Rd Scottsdale AZ Phone: 480-941-9026 Web: www.thespringsofscottsdale.com Jack of the Lantern Every October, once pumpkins have grown fat and orange, these gorgeous gourds are picked and used in a wide variety of ritual activities from baking pumpkin pie to carving jack-o’-lanterns for Halloween. But there’s no need to wait until October 26, Pumpkin Day, to make Celebrating October the most of your favorite pumpkin traditions. Pumpkins have been grown in North America for Pumpkin Pie Month 5,000 years. While these gourds are native to Central America and Mexico, the tradition of carving pumpkins Positive Attitude Month began across the Atlantic Ocean in Ireland. The practice of carving “jack-o’-lanterns” began with an Irish folktale about a man named “Stingy Jack.” Popcorn Poppin’ Month The legend says that Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink, but then the tightfisted fellow did not Oktoberfest Day Thank You, Sir Frobisher October Birthdays want to pay. Jack tricked the Devil into transforming October 4th himself into a coin he could use to buy the drinks, but On October 8, be sure to wish In astrology, Libras are those born between Jack put the coin into his pocket next to a silver cross. all your Canadian friends a October 1–22. Libras, symbolized by the scales, Special Music Concert The Devil, so near a cross, could not change back into strive for balance, avoid conflict, and desire Happy Thanksgiving. In 1578, October 15th his devilish self. Jack made the Devil promise not to more than 40 years before fairness for everyone. To achieve this, they are sociable, strategic, charming, and diplomatic. claim his soul should he die. The Devil had no choice the Pilgrims celebrated but to agree. However, when Jack did die, God would Those born between October 23–31 are Magic & Music Show their first Thanksgiving in the Scorpios. Scorpios are passionate and not allow someone who caroused with the Devil into Americas, English explorer deep, qualities that help them counsel October 17th heaven. In the end, Jack was sent into the dark of night Martin Frobisher held a others in meaningful ways. Resourceful and with nothing but a lamp fashioned from a carved-out Thanksgiving celebration in present-day determined, Scorpios make good managers. turnip, lit with a lump of glowing coal. For this reason, 5th Annual Fall Festival Newfoundland. He Virginia H…………10/7 October 20th the Irish have long carved images of “Jack of the and his crew were giving thanks for surviving Edward C…………10/9 Lantern” from turnips and, later, potatoes or beets. their exploration looking for the Northwest Darlene B…………10/9 The scary, glowing faces were used to frighten away Passage. This Thanksgiving celebration was George H………….10/12 Pumpkin Carving Contest Stingy Jack and any other evil spirits. finally formalized as a national holiday in Lila G………………10/17 October 24th 1879. Today, it does not honor Frobisher but Flossie M………….10/19 When Irish immigrants came to North America, they discovered a new medium for their jack-o’-lanterns: is a harvest celebration similar to America’s Lillian P……………10/22 Ken S……………...10/31 Halloween pumpkins. With their hollow centers and wide, thick, Thanksgiving, complete with turkey and October 31 orange shells, these gourds were a perfect vessel. pumpkin pie. And as far as Frobisher’s claim Today, pumpkins are grown on every continent except to the first Thanksgiving, some historians think Antarctica, and people around the world use them to that Spanish explorers may have conducted carve jack-o’-lanterns. Thanksgivings even before Martin Frobisher. October 2018 Shootout at the O.K. Corral The Golden Ticket The Wonders of Yosemite Intuitive Magic On October 26, 1881, a shootout The first day of October brings International The natural wonders of On October 31, Halloween, strange things Willy Wonka Day, in honor of the fictional between Wild West lawman Wyatt Yosemite Valley, located within may go bump in the night. Perhaps this is why candy-maker who first appeared in Roald Earp and the Clanton-McLaury California’s Sierra Nevada this date is also Increase Your Psychic Powers Dahl’s children’s book Charlie and the gang at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, mountain range, are easy to Day. Psychic powers derive from extrasensory Chocolate Factory. The holiday does not Arizona, lasted a mere 30 seconds. observe: the famous Half perception (ESP), senses beyond our physical The gunfight’s legend would grow commemorate the popular book but rather five senses. Although there is no scientific the 1971 film adaptation, Willy Wonka and Dome, the granite cliffs of El through the decades, enshrining the evidence to confirm the existence of psychic the Chocolate Factory. One of the differences Capitan, the giant sequoia names Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in western powers, clairvoyants believe in abilities such between the book and the movie is important trees, the delicate waterfalls. lore and spawning countless books and movies. While the valley’s scenic natural beauty brings as reading minds, divining the future, and to note, for it explains why Willy Wonka Day communicating without speaking. Perhaps is celebrated on October 1. In the book, young peace to its visitors, its journey to becoming a Thanks to the discovery of silver, Tombstone, national park in October of 1890 was anything another way of looking at psychic ability is Charlie Bucket wins a Golden Ticket that intuition Arizona, became a mining boomtown, attracting but peaceful. by redefining it as . Hindus believe entitles him to enter Willy Wonka’s chocolate in the third-eye chakra, an energy center hardworking miners and outlaws alike. Defending factory on February 1. However, in the movie located between the eyes that is the center the town’s law and order fell to the Earps: Virgil, version, Charlie Bucket’s Golden Ticket directs The Yosemite Valley had been inhabited for 3,000 years by Native American tribes, most of our power of intuition, or inner knowledge, the town marshal, and his brothers Morgan and Charlie to the chocolate factory on “the first guided by a sixth sense. So even if you do not the now-famous Wyatt, a former gambler, saloon day of October.” Why the difference? The recently the Ahwahnechee, a band that did not hesitate to fight off other tribes and invaders to believe in psychic ability, consider October 31 keeper, gunslinger, and police officer. The Clantons movie was filmed in Munich, Germany, during their territory. A neighboring tribe, the Miwok, an opportune time to open yourself up to new and McLaurys, a gang of cattle rustlers and thieves, the autumn, between August and November. and wondrous possibilities. The weather at the location simply did not called the Ahwahnechee Yos s e’meti, a word owned a cattle ranch outside of town. The Earps meaning “those who kill.” It is from this word that and the Clanton-McLaury gang represented look like a February winter, so the date on the ticket was changed to October 1. Yosemite valley got its name. This word, it seems, the two sides of power in Tombstone, and on could also refer to the white European settlers in Bottled Art October 26 their violent power struggle ended the region. Once gold was struck in California in Artisans have been creating in bloodshed. What’s a Frappe? the mid-19th century, white Europeans overran miniature models of fully the valley. A California State militia, led by Army rigged ships inside bottles Antagonism between the two factions escalated October 7 is Frappe Day, and for Major Jim Savage, was eventually tasked with many people this begs the question, for centuries. Perhaps you, on October 25, when the Clanton-McLaury gang clearing Yosemite of the Ahwahnechee. As news “What is a frappe?” Denizens of too, could master this secret of California’s gold spread, more settlers arrived, double-crossed Wyatt Earp over the spoils of a America’s northeast corner, known art on October 4, Ship in a Bottle Day. The first and in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln moved stagecoach robbery. By the next day, news of as New Englanders, know that a mention of putting objects, including ships, in to preserve seven square miles of the valley and the tussle had spread, and other members of the frappe is a milkshake blended with bottles dates back to 1719, when the art was gang vowed revenge against the Earps. But the ice cream. But wait a minute—isn’t the Mariposa Grove of sequoia trees as a public popularized by a German named Matthias Earps and their friend Doc Holliday were ready. a milkshake a blended drink made trust of California, marking the first time the U.S. Buchinger. What made the feat even more The Clanton-McLaury gang was caught mustering of milk, ice cream, and syrup? Not government set aside land for public enjoyment. spectacular was that Buchinger was born without in a vacant lot behind the O.K. Corral, and Virgil in New England. Up there, milkshakes don’t hands or legs and grew to only 29 inches tall. It wasn’t until 1889 that naturalist John Muir Earp wasted no time firing the first shot. Over the include ice cream but only contain milk and Despite these handicaps, Buchinger earned ventured into Yosemite. He was awed by its next 30 seconds, 30 shots were fired, and when syrup. To further confuse matters, travel to renown throughout Europe as an artist, beauty and also worried that the vast meadows the dust cleared, Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Rhode Island, where you’ll likely find cabinet on magician, musician, marksman, calligrapher, surrounding Yosemite valley were unprotected.