Feb 4, 2025 news article
February 4, 2025 (clucking): “I feel an article coming on” “What’s that got to do with the price of eggs?” There’s no way to ignore it. Even if you look the other way when you pass the refrigerated case in the supermarket or you eliminate any fast food item from consideration that includes the word […]
December Newsletter 2024
December “Deep in December, it’s nice to remember Although you know the snow will follow . . .” – Tom Jones, “Try to Remember” from “the Fantasticks,” 1960 We have spoken about Christmas in past Decembers – how could it be otherwise? Christmas is probably the most important holiday in our culture and is for […]
November Newsletter 2024
Please . . . 🎵 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! The full moon of November is commonly called the Snow Moon (though the Farmers’ Almanac likes “the Beaver Moon” — we’re going to “Leave that To Beaver”). We don’t get much snow on the flats of Southern California {see […]
October Newsletter 2024
“It’s The Great Pumpkin!” Why isn’t there any pumpkin in pumpkin spice-everything? Is it lingering European frustration for not getting the treasures that Columbus set out to bring back from the fabled Orient: cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg? Why reject the hearty, earthy, sweet flavor of baked pumpkin – the American fruit (technically, a […]
September Newsletter 2024
🎵When Autumn Leaves start to fall . . . As the Earth makes a left turn to get back to the place where the New Year starts, we have a gentler season to immerse ourselves in – a time to harvest, a time to prepare, a time to watch the days shorten. We […]
August Newsletter 2024
Dig In! August is the second serving of Summer, the time to revisit all the enjoyments that make all the work during the rest of the year worthwhile. That might involve recreation or travel or entertainment or food or personal interests – August provides the ideal setting. Clear, sunny days and warm, inviting evenings. Is […]
July Newsletter 2024
“Just Play It Cool, Boy . . . Real Cool” The next order of business is how to keep cool. A few hot days? We can take it. There’s air conditioning, of course, but Hawthornians have been relying on their mild climate and Mother Nature’s afternoon sea breeze since the First Peoples climbed the “Ramona” […]
June Newsletter 2024
Mid- . . . . Year Summer arrives with the fourth week of June and the longest time between sunrise and sunset in the Northern Hemisphere. It was cause for celebration for our ancestors everywhere, particularly for those in daylight-starved northerly European latitudes. To deceive and cheer themselves, they called it “mid-“ summer. They feasted, […]
May Newsletter 2024
May the Force be with you Hidden behind those deceptively overcast skies, May has its way of forcing the year into the full bloom of summer. By the time we’ve had Cinco de Mayo and Mothers’ Day, everyone is ready to accept the long Memorial Day weekend as the unofficial gateway into the season […]
April Newsletter 2024
HAWTHORNE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESERVATION. COLLECTION. RESEARCH. INTERPRETATION. April Change is in the air this month. If you’re an early riser, the Sun is giving you a race. If you’re waiting for the day to end, daylight is reaching farther into the evening hours. Baseball Season, Daylight Savings and major religious holidays have arrived. […]