Bring In Every New Year Like It’s 1865
This is done in remembrance of the sacrifices of our noble ancestors.
This is done in remembrance of the sacrifices of our noble ancestors. See here, here, and here, for helpful insights, first-hand sources, and historical guidance.
Below the fold is my story I (T. Morris) recently wrote of how the confluence of certain events ultimately led me to the knowledge of the truth regarding our long-established custom of ushering in each successive New Year, centered around preparing and serving “animal food” as the main dish. It was originally conceived and penned with the exclusive interest of my immediate circle of influence in mind. I include it below for those of our readers who might benefit from some aspect of the story as well.
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when I openly scoffed and scorned the practice of ushering in the New Year with the eating of black-eyed peas, deeming the act a superstitious cult-like ritual unbecoming civilized, God-fearing Christians. A main reason for my former (and sadly mistaken) attitude towards the custom as such was that apparently no one – neither my parents nor my grandparents on either side for starters – was equipped to provide me a better explanation than the foregoing for why our family religiously performed the ritual year-in and year-out. Aunts and uncles, and other adults of influence in my young life, proved to be less than helpful by way of explanation as…