This post is part of a series of editorials written by Bert Walsh during his tenure as president and past president of the Shasta Historical Society. Readers are advised that his humor is often irreverent and rarely politically correct.
Click here for the table of contents for the entire collection of his editorials.
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Happy Thanksgiving! The Horsetown Improvement Society is planning a Thanksgiving Dinner for the homeless. The main course will be an emu roasted in the Briggsville lime kiln. There is some controversy over recipes for stuffing. Would pine nuts work instead of chestnuts? Can acorn meal be used to thicken the gravy? Address all suggestions to the Society, "Attention: Gloria."
--BTW
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Note: This was an "inside" joke: Gloria Clark was the long-suffering wife of Dr. Gene Clark, who organized the Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve at the site of the first gold discovery in Shasta County. [MRW]
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