Essay by Martha Quillen
Holidays – November 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, there’s something very odd about Thanksgiving. Even though Americans celebrate several holidays brought over from Europe, like Christmas and New Years, Thanksgiving is the oldest public holiday declared in the United States. Yet Thanksgiving has changed very little over the years.
Letter by Jack Woehr
Holidays – February 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine
Enjoyed Santa the Shaman
Editors:
Thanks very kindly for George Sibley’s story on Santa the Shaman [December, 1998]. I would note that his informant certainly should have credited Drs. Ruth and Gordon Wasson whose The Sacred Mushroom of the Vedas was the seminal work of ethnobotany, and which also adduced the connection to European pre-Christian religion which Mr. Sibley relishes.
