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中秋节 Moon Festival 2012!
Redball:
There are two versions of the naming of Hell MI, which consists of a restaurant, a couple of stores and a dam but in the early 19th century included a flour mill, distillery and tavern. One is the usual stuff, wives would say their husbands, down at the tavern, had "gone to hell," and the name stuck. The other version, I recall, attributes the name to a German visitor; hell apparently referring to "bright" or "lucid." A few weeks ago, I described in the Confessions thread how my wife and I led pre-Halloween trips to Hell, consisting of pizza and beer at the Dam Site Inn and a walk on a trail through a woods, sans lights.
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--- Quote from: valley_parade on 30 Sep 2012, 17:44 ---How exactly does a mid-autumn festival mere days after autumn started?
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It's a lunar calendar thing, and originally a harvest festival. It makes even less sense here in Australia, where it is late spring/early summer...
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I think most of these types of holidays originated in the northern hemisphere, so it still makes sense I guess. Especially since a lot of other holidays rotate around the lunar holidays too.
I have never had a mooncake and I am intrigued. I'm intrigued by the whole festival, really, but there isn't one around here. :-(
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Redball on 29 Sep 2012, 07:22 ---It's more Tennessee than Michigan. Clara loved them as a child.
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They're definitely a Southern thing. Get you an RC Cola and a Moon Pie, that there's a good day. You can get em on this coast too though, the hot dog place down the street from my coffee shop always has em in stock.
Omega Entity:
I think we have moonpies up here, too, just not as prevalent. Can't say I've ever had one, though.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Gnomes2169 on 30 Sep 2012, 18:31 ---Now I didn't check every state, but I think there is at least one Rochester in each and every one of the 50... with some states having up to three or four. It's like the "John Smith" of city names...
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Rochester was a small cathedral city in Kent in the UK long before any of those...
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