Being an early morning person it is not often that I have stayed up to see the New Year in. I do remember though from my not too distant past being at various gatherings. One of my long time friends often had a gathering at her house. She is Malaysian and the food was always very interesting. Another nice tradition was a church group that met for a meal, some fun time and sharing and then a Eucharist towards midnight.
When I was growing up in Lachute we remembered the English tradition of first footing on New Year’s Day. It was good luck for the year if the first person coming into your house was tall and dark haired. My dad’s dad did this. He was tall but quite bald!
Before we had our own colour television we went to a friend’s who was more up to date. We watched the Rose Bowl Parade on his colour set.
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