July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
It's time to stand
Letters to the editor
To the editor:
I would like to thank all the people that helped protest against the Gay/Lesbian Alliance and Ray Boltz at Arts Place.
It was so nice to see people come out on a cold evening. Some of these people were elderly. Others were sick. However, they made their stand for Jesus Christ.
We would like to thank the Portland Police Department for taking their time to be there during the time that we protested. We know you have other things to do. We also would like to thank the lady that stopped by and told us, Thank you, for what we were doing and then went and bought us all coffee. You truly will be blessed. You are our guardian angels.
Thank you to all the churches that supported us, all of you that couldn't be there but prayed for us during this situation and the ones that drove by and honked and gave thumbs up in support of us.
It's time that we as Christians start standing up for what is right. If not, our children and grandchildren will have nothing and we will become a minority.
Do we want another Madelyn Murray O'Hare? Absolutely not!
Stand up community. When they start to have another meeting for the schools to have an alliance, we need to be there and not sit at home. We need to tell Portland we will not put up with this!
Judy Supinger
Portland
Keep poppin'
To the editor:
Most people who write to you are usually complaining or defending/praising someone or something. However, with Thanksgiving around the corner we begin to think about turkey and pumpkin pie.
But what about popcorn? Where does that fit in?
In school little children begin early hearing stories about what the first Thanksgiving feast was probably like. One story comes to my mind about how corn was introduced to the earliest colonists on a cold, grim winter day and became a mainstay of their diet, keeping them from starvation.
Another story I remember is one of a particular Indian (I forget his name) who quietly slipped off into the woods and returned with baskets of white fluffy puffs. I can imagine the Pilgrims being delighted to find another way to cook this new source of yellow grain. I can almost see and hear them sitting around campfires or fireplaces, popping corn and discussing who was to chop the wood and who was to go hunting for the next week's supply or what ground to clear.
I read in a book once references to some early diaries of settlers mentioning a concoction borrowed from the Indians called "nocake" or "nookick" which was corn parched or popped in hot ashes of the fireplace, removed, cleaned, and then pulverized. This powder then would be carried in leather pouches. It was lightweight, handy, and did not spoil. It could then later be mixed with liquids and used to make delicious foods for travelers. In the diary of John Winthrop, a governor of Massachusetts Colony dated 1630 there is a reference to parched Indian corn with its kernels turned inside out, white and fluffy, being eaten whole or ground and cooked into a porridge served with milk or cream.
About the mid-19th century, the Pennsylvania Germans are attributed with finding another use for these white fluffy kernels. They liked to thread garlands of them to trim their Christmas trees, which reminds me of another tale I once heard about some Indians believing that this special grain was not only good for food but contained magical properties. Sometimes it was sprinkled outside doorways to ensure fertility or to ward off enemies.
There must be a joke in there somewhere. In my case and at my age (83) the first one I have no se for and the second - I'm not so sure. But if you should come to visit and find popcorn strewn about the doorway, I'm not untidy but I may be warding off enemies. Or the great-grandkids were here.
People do funny things when they can't sleep at night, like get up and bake cookies, knit, crochet, read, or write letters. Well, I don't want to bake, can't see anymore to knit or crochet, and I can only read in large print.
So, I just polished off a bowl of popcorn and thought of writing a letter. Is this where that expression "corny" came from? Oh well.
Marjorie Chapman
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
I would like to thank all the people that helped protest against the Gay/Lesbian Alliance and Ray Boltz at Arts Place.
It was so nice to see people come out on a cold evening. Some of these people were elderly. Others were sick. However, they made their stand for Jesus Christ.
We would like to thank the Portland Police Department for taking their time to be there during the time that we protested. We know you have other things to do. We also would like to thank the lady that stopped by and told us, Thank you, for what we were doing and then went and bought us all coffee. You truly will be blessed. You are our guardian angels.
Thank you to all the churches that supported us, all of you that couldn't be there but prayed for us during this situation and the ones that drove by and honked and gave thumbs up in support of us.
It's time that we as Christians start standing up for what is right. If not, our children and grandchildren will have nothing and we will become a minority.
Do we want another Madelyn Murray O'Hare? Absolutely not!
Stand up community. When they start to have another meeting for the schools to have an alliance, we need to be there and not sit at home. We need to tell Portland we will not put up with this!
Judy Supinger
Portland
Keep poppin'
To the editor:
Most people who write to you are usually complaining or defending/praising someone or something. However, with Thanksgiving around the corner we begin to think about turkey and pumpkin pie.
But what about popcorn? Where does that fit in?
In school little children begin early hearing stories about what the first Thanksgiving feast was probably like. One story comes to my mind about how corn was introduced to the earliest colonists on a cold, grim winter day and became a mainstay of their diet, keeping them from starvation.
Another story I remember is one of a particular Indian (I forget his name) who quietly slipped off into the woods and returned with baskets of white fluffy puffs. I can imagine the Pilgrims being delighted to find another way to cook this new source of yellow grain. I can almost see and hear them sitting around campfires or fireplaces, popping corn and discussing who was to chop the wood and who was to go hunting for the next week's supply or what ground to clear.
I read in a book once references to some early diaries of settlers mentioning a concoction borrowed from the Indians called "nocake" or "nookick" which was corn parched or popped in hot ashes of the fireplace, removed, cleaned, and then pulverized. This powder then would be carried in leather pouches. It was lightweight, handy, and did not spoil. It could then later be mixed with liquids and used to make delicious foods for travelers. In the diary of John Winthrop, a governor of Massachusetts Colony dated 1630 there is a reference to parched Indian corn with its kernels turned inside out, white and fluffy, being eaten whole or ground and cooked into a porridge served with milk or cream.
About the mid-19th century, the Pennsylvania Germans are attributed with finding another use for these white fluffy kernels. They liked to thread garlands of them to trim their Christmas trees, which reminds me of another tale I once heard about some Indians believing that this special grain was not only good for food but contained magical properties. Sometimes it was sprinkled outside doorways to ensure fertility or to ward off enemies.
There must be a joke in there somewhere. In my case and at my age (83) the first one I have no se for and the second - I'm not so sure. But if you should come to visit and find popcorn strewn about the doorway, I'm not untidy but I may be warding off enemies. Or the great-grandkids were here.
People do funny things when they can't sleep at night, like get up and bake cookies, knit, crochet, read, or write letters. Well, I don't want to bake, can't see anymore to knit or crochet, and I can only read in large print.
So, I just polished off a bowl of popcorn and thought of writing a letter. Is this where that expression "corny" came from? Oh well.
Marjorie Chapman
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
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