FEBRUARY 

Baby Bear Moon  (Potawatomi)

Welcome to the February QR Page! The theme of the February pages is Valentine’s Day traditions, recipes and customs.

February Trivia Questions: Red Velvet Cake 1. Before there was food coloring, how could cocoa make the cake reddish?

Red Velvet Cake 2.  What vegetable was often used for a reddish hue?

Pavlova Question –  How did Pavlova get its name?  Where and why was this dessert invented?

Links to great articles on Valentine’s Day traditions:  History of Valentine’s Day               Early Paper Valentines The Chocolate-Valentine’s Day Connection          Red Velvet Cake and Juneteenth         History of Red Velvet Cake

February Recipes: Original Red Velvet Cake with Ermine (boiled milk) Frosting

Recipe for Red Velvet Cake with Beets Valentine Pavlova dessert

Winslow Homer’s Connection to Townsend- The painter Winslow Homer had a connection to Townsend, MA, through his brother Charles Homer Jr., who lived in West Townsend with his wife Martha. Winslow would visit his brother and sister-in-law on extended stays, using the area around the Squannacook River and Willard Brook for fishing and inspiration, and possibly using the landscape for works like Girl and Laurel and The Swing.     Related article

Check out the “Treasures from the Vault” article – townsendhistoricalsociety.org

Grievances: He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly,  for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the People.