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Christmas in the early days of Omaha was 'big-time bleak'
They were young, women were few, turkeys for their Christmas meal were fewer and it was too cold to do much.
So how did Omaha's first settlers celebrate the Lord's birth?
According to an account published in the Omaha Sunday Bee, they got drunk and ran up a bar tab that is probably still unpaid. They planted crop seeds in the snow. They ran up Douglas Street hooting and carrying on. They staged a fake legislative session with a made-up committee on marriage. They mourned the terrible male-female ratio as the hunkier among them drew the few available women at dances.
Mostly, they celebrated Christmas the best they could in those first hard years in an Omaha unrecognizable today
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So how did Omaha's first settlers celebrate the Lord's birth?
According to an account published in the Omaha Sunday Bee, they got drunk and ran up a bar tab that is probably still unpaid. They planted crop seeds in the snow. They ran up Douglas Street hooting and carrying on. They staged a fake legislative session with a made-up committee on marriage. They mourned the terrible male-female ratio as the hunkier among them drew the few available women at dances.
Mostly, they celebrated Christmas the best they could in those first hard years in an Omaha unrecognizable today
Complete article at:http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20131223%2FNEWS%2F131229621