Please submit your favorite recipe for our Pierpont Quasquicentennial Cookbook.
Quasquicentennial? What kind of word monstrocity is this? Where did it come from and who coined it? Well, here is a short history …
Robert L. Chapman of Baldwin, New York, wrote …
During the first week of August in 1961, Frank & Wagnalls received a letter from Frank W. Hattan of Delavan, Illinois, requesting “suggestions or criticism” concerning two words which had been coined to mean ’125th aniversary’. The words were ‘cenquadtennial’ and ‘centquartennial’. Delavan, a town with a population of about 1600 would be celebrating its 125th anniverary as “New Frontier Days” from August 30 through September 3, 1962.
It is our policy to reply as courteously and helpfully as we can to such requests, and I answered Mr. Hatten on August 7, suggesting ‘quasquicentennial’. …
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Anyway, let us not digress. We are calling for Recipe Submissions for our 125th Anniversary Cookbook. So please, share your culinary skills and submit your recipies so that Pierpont’s residents and others can share in the taste of your most scrumptious gastronomic and epicurian creations.
We’re making plans to be there for the big celebration! We challenge all family of Tony and Gladys Jordanger to be there!