MeMoMu_MM_051 THE SQUIRRELS' CLUB -- THE DEBATE _ WALTER POTTER 1871 / KUMARI VAIM 2026
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21. jaanuar kell 23:28
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☞Buttermilk Junction wishes all of our Facebook fans a Happy National Squirrel Appreciation Day!
☞National Squirrel Appreciation Day is an unofficial holiday that is celebrated annually on January 21. The first National Squirrel Appreciation Day occurred on January 21, 2001. This unofficial holiday was founded by Christy Hargrove, a wildlife rehabilitator affiliated with the Western North Carolina Nature Center. According to the founder, the “Celebration of the event itself is up to the individual or group -- anything from putting out extra food for the squirrels to learning something new about the species.”
☞Although it is not in accordance with the original intents & purposes of this holiday, we suggest that today would also be a good day to learn something new about squirrel recipes, & with that in mind we would like to point out that squirrel heads & gravy was in the not-too-distant past quite a popular dish amongst squirrel hunters, & that “Squirrel Heads & Gravy” is also the name of an Old‑Time tune that isn’t really all that old. Composed circa-1975 by fiddler Chris Germain apparently as part of a joke, the tune has entered the Old-Time-Music tradition & is often listed as a “traditional” melody. The rumor that there is an older tune by the same name only seems to be a part of the joke. One story goes that Germain asked around at fiddlers’ gatherings & parties whether anyone had heard the “old” tune called “Squirrel Heads & Gravy,” & then a few months later he started playing his new composition allowing people to presume he had unearthed a long-lost piece.
☞Note: It is nowadays warned against partaking of squirrel heads on account of the possibility of contracting the deadly degenerative neurological disorder known as “Mad Squirrel Disease,” which is related to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease -- the human form of Mad Cow Disease.
☞The photograph depicts a circa-1871 tableau entitled “The Squirrels’ Club -- The Debate” by noted Victorian-Era English taxidermist Walter Potter (1835-1918), who was known for his anthropomorphic dioramas featuring taxidermized animals mimicking human life, which he displayed at his own museum at the village of Bramber in the Horsham District of the County of West Sussex, England. Kuva vähem
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