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| Tango01 | 17 Feb 2020 3:03 p.m. PST |
"Visiting friends and sharing food were features of New Year's Day in early 19th-century America. James Stuart, a visitor from Scotland, described a New Year's Day in New York in 1830. New Year's day, 1830, took place while we were at Hoboken. It was a fine clear day. We therefore passed over to Long Island to the Brooklyn Heights, to see the packets for England and other ports, which depart on the first day of each month, making sail in the Bay. I never witnessed a more animated scene. On our return through New York we were surprised to observe the streets more crowded than at any former period; and afterwards found, that it is usual for people of all descriptions to call at each other's houses, were it but for a moment, on the first day of the year. Cold meat, cake, confectionery, and wines, are laid out upon a table, that all who call may partake; and it seems the general understanding that such a one's friends who do not call upon him on the first day of the year are not very anxious to continue his acquaintance. There must be limitations to the rule, but I never could get them well explained; there is no doubt that the practice, as I have stated it, is very general…"
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