Tooele
lacked members with musical instruments on Christmas day in 1849, yet the
saints still had music to dance to. What was the form of the music?
a.
Whistling
b.
Singing
c.
Clapping
d.
Tapping on
pots
Yesterday’s answer:
(B) Parched corn and cookies
A little
creativity allowed pioneer women to accomplish great things with their limited
resources. Sarah Gladhill recalled how her mother, in an attempt to make
Christmas more special in their Ogden home during the 1860s, would “take a
picture she had brought with her from Philadelphia and not having a frame for
it she would take a piece of dark cloth and bind it and hang it up, taking down
the one she has put up the Christmas before as it would be fly specked and
dirty.” Similarly, when Christmas found the pioneers of San Juan County camped
in wagons at Hole-in-the-Rock, mothers managed to save the day by filling the
children’s stockings—which were carefully hung from the wagon wheels—with
parched corn and cookies baked in a Dutch oven.
Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo,
Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 126.
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