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</html><description>(I&#x2019;m posting a day early due to the fact that I will be at a summer reading program workshop all day tomorrow and won&#x2019;t have access to a computer.) We&#x2019;ve entered the eating season, ladies and gentlemen. We&#x2019;re sick of the fun sized candy bars and we&#x2019;re thinking about our Thanksgiving menu (does anyone remember Thanksgiving being three weeks after Halloween? Or am I just getting older?). Then comes Christmas cookies and Hanukkah&#xA0;latkes.&#xA0; Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, and/or Kwanzaa, delicious and very special feasts probably play important roles in your celebration. We also celebrate dance during this season. At this time, ballet companies and schools are in preparation for their biggest event/fundraiser of the year-the annual performance of the Nutcracker (Jennifer Fisher wrote a fascinating book titled Nutcracker Nation: How An Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World that I highly recommend). Dance is also...</description><thumbnail_url>https://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/wiggle.thumbnail.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>
