University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 11, 1989
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Festival kicks off Christmas in Topeka
By Derek Schmidt
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - The statehouse rotunda usually is a solemn place, guarded by statues of prominent people from Kansas history.
The stony countenances of Dwight Eisenhower, Amelia Earhard, William Allen White and Arthur Capper gazed upon dancing and singing during an ethnic festival Nov. 24, the beginning of the holiday season in Topeka.
"My grandfather couldn't understand celebrating Christmas until he got to this country," said James D. Baird, a member of the Topeka St. Andrew's School.
Dressed in a Scottish kilt, Wallace operated a table of Scottish Christmas lore during the festival. He told passers-by that Christmas was considered a pagan holiday in Scotland until the 20th century. Scots celebrated Hogmanay, he said, which is an annual festival at the end of the year.
"People think I'm crazy when I say we didn't celebrate Christmas, but it's true," he said.
The Capitol rotunda is decorated with eight Christmas trees that are covered with popcorn strings, paper chains and homemade ornaments. Red bowls and evergreen roping hoops are circular railings around the rotunda.
Topeka civic groups donated and decorated the trees, which were unveiled Nov. 24 during the ninth annual Festival of Carols. They will stand in the Capitol until after the holidays, said Marsha Sheshan, vice president of public relations for the topeka Chamber of Commerce.
The Festival, which is supported by corporate and private donations, kicked off the holiday season in Topeka. More than 2,500 people turned out for downtown wagon rides and a large number of decorations on the 30-acre statehouse grounds and the grounds of the state judicial center.
The trees and lights will remain
through the holiday season, but the ethnic festival Nov. 24 was the climax of the celebration.
Baggipie music echoed through the capitol halls and then faded as Irish dancers
Food is an important part of the Irish Christmas tradition, said Martha Owen, a member of the Shamrock Chapter of the Irish American Cultural Institute. Most important is plum pudding.
"It it got Irish whiskey in it," said Owen, who was born in Oxford, England.
The cultural festival demonstrated different ways that people celebrate Christmas, but it also showed similarities.
"The essential part of Christmas is still the same." Owen said.
Barbel Ketter of Topeka operated the German-American Christmas table. She said she had participated in the festival for several years.
"I want people to know our traditions — the way we decorate our tree, and how we celebrate."
Christmas in Germany includes an
advent wreath with a candle lit for each of the four weeks before Christmas, Ketter said. It also includes a miniature small soldier-like children's toys.
He said he had tried to telephone his two teen-age children twice since he had been in Topeka, but both times had been in West Berlin.
Bernd Wischroch attended the festival and spent most of his time speaking German to the German-Americans, Wischroch, who lives in East Berlin, discovered last year that he had relatives in Topeka, he said through an interpreter. He applied for a travel permit and left Berlin Nov. 9, shortly before the Berlin wall was opened.
Kay Wischropch of Topeka, one of Wischropch's relatives, said that meeting Bernd Wischroph had been a Christmas present for her family.
"He fit right into Christmas real well," she said.
Wischrop will return to Berlin this week, but Kay Wischrop said that he wished he could stay through the Christmas season.
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