Wishing you Happy Holidays in 2001 from the Eberharts! In our third year of on-line sales, we are enthusiastic about FruitFrom Washington.com, e-commerce, and the high quality of our 2001 apple and pear crop. Thank you to our valued customers whom we've had the pleasure of serving this year and to our great and wonderful friends whose friendship enriches our lives.

We are happy to share special holiday menus, festive quotes from favorite stories and poems, blessings, graces and toasts. Here at FruitFromWashington.com you'll find
wintery scene screensavers
and computer wallpaper to decorate your desktop. You'll practically be able to smell the ginger and spice (and everything nice) as you use our searchable recipe database to find holiday recipes that will make kids, big and little, smile.

Best of all, we just added vintage Santa and classic Christmas scene i-cards! You'll save a stamp and share the cheer when you send a free digital i-card to family and friends! It's quick, easy and fun to do!

A little bit of Dickens is never enough, but it's a start and you are welcome to wander through these pages of Holiday Poems, Stories and More —
“There were pears and apples clustered high in blooming pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers’ benevolence, to dangle from conspicuous hooks that people’s mouths might water gratis as they passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through withered leaves; there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy persons, urgently entreating and beseeching to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner.” - Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol

Last year Katie decided to record Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol on streaming audio. Click to listen to Katie's reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (requires RealPlayer).

“Market Place Cries” is not a headline torn from the Wall Street Journal, about the sad state of a bearish stock market. It's a new addition to the FruitFromWashington.com literary fruit quotations collection. Awhile ago I asked if anyone in the family recalled the street scene from the musical Oliver in which sellers hawked their wares, and wondered if they knew the words to "Who will buy my roses?" Urban confessed that Oliver is one of his favorite movies and daughter Crystal sang that song in a school concert last year. (Click for other Fruit From Washington featured Market Place Cries.)

"Who will buy?" from Oliver
ROSE-SELLER: Who will buy my sweet red roses?
Two blooms for a penny.
Who will buy my sweet red roses?
Two blooms for a penny.
MILKMAID: Will you buy any milk today, mistress?
Any milk today, mistress?
STRAWBERRY-SELLER: Ripe strawberries, ripe!
Ripe strawberries, ripe!

To bring alive bits and pieces of family history is a worthy endeavor. In our family, the young ones might wonder who was John Graham Boulton? Depending on which generation of descendants you ask, he was our grandfather, great grandfather, or great-great grandfather. He was a stern patriarch, a thoughtful scholar, a creative poet whom most of us never knew except through his writings and the stories handed down. A published collection of his work titled Poems and Prose has been preserved in the family library. It includes a three-stanza Christmas piece, December, 1918. The last lines are excerpted below (click for complete poem).

A happy, happy Christmas,
we have got and we must lend,
A merry, joyful Christmas,
if to other folds we send:
For blessed are the givers,
and more happy in the end
Is the boy or girl who joyfully shares
with a poorer friend.
- John Graham Boulton, December, 1918
(Poems and Prose)

December
Featured Recipe
Poire Belle Hélène

The FruitFromWashington.com Archive Feature of the Month Russ Nicholson peeling apples. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia - October 1935 (Photographer: Arthur Rothstein. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, LC-USF34-T01-000363-D) The FruitFromWashington Archive Feature metaphorically blows the dust off of an image or document from our past and brings it to the light of day for a new audience to see. Click for more about the history of food preparation including a look at fruit drying in America.

Remember our Monthly Care Packages of Apples and Pears when thinking about gifts that will be enjoyed throughout the year (also available in 9-month, 6-month and 3-month fruit subscriptions).

Month of December Best Buy Specials are a Gift Box of 20 Gala Apples (regular price $20.95, now $18.85) and a Gift Box of 20 Bosc Pears (regular price $21.95, now $19.75).

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