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...that the new nation's future would depend on a base of agrarian yeomen free from the vices inherent in big cities. One of the classic, image-driven presidential campaigns featured William Henry Harrison as the embodiment of homey rural virtues, the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider, defeating the incumbent Martin Van Buren, who was accused of dandified dress and manners. One of Van Buren's more vocal detractors was Davy Crockett, who went from frontiersman to the U.S. Congress without ever trading in his coonskin cap for a top hat. (A century later, fellow Tennessean Estes...
...true that the temptation to use food as a political symbol is bred in the bone. William Henry Harrison won the presidency by calling himself "the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider." Franklin D. Roosevelt served hot dogs to the King and Queen of England...
When I was 14, I spent several weeks in France with a family some relatives knew. Wine, and now and then something a little stronger, was de rigeur at dinner. How 'empowered' I felt when I bought my first bottle of cider at a roadside creperie! Was alcohol really the evil seductress whose wiles had long been eschewed by elementary school filmstrips? Again, I had to differ...
Also in the Square air are snatches of Bing Crosby songs, punctuated by melodies from Salvation Army bell-ringers. Garlands and blinking lights decked store windows and streets. HMV gave away hot cider...
...minus the promised bonfire, hot dogs, apple cider, s'mores--and even the attendance of some of the rally's organizers--the 'Beat Yale' pep rally still went on as scheduled to an estimated crowd of 150 students at the MAC Quad...