Category: Parties and Tables from the Past

It was the 1960s and music was blaring from the Zenith Hi-Fi…

It was the 1960s and music was blaring from the Zenith Hi-Fi.  My parents were having another party! It might have been their party, but it was sheer entertainment for us children to watch them get ready before the doorbell rang.  The recreation room was decorated with balloons and crepe paper (it sounds kind of

A New England Clambake in Minnesota

When my cousins from Boston called the night before their arrival to say they wanted to have a clambake, I never dreamed they were going to bring live lobsters on the plane with them!  Live lobsters!  I didn’t even know they could do that, but after obtaining the OK from the airlines, the lobsters arrived

Forget Perfect!

We had a better turnout at my sister’s bridal shower than I could have hoped for.  There were relatives at our house that I had not seen in years and years!   I was trying to speak with a guest in the kitchen, in spite of a thunderstorm and the noise from the party, when