#Lodging Options

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Exploring Shenandoah National Park: A Hiker's Paradise

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[make-friends-with-the-rats]

In December of 1899, the halls of 9 Duane Street Lodging House echoed with the voices of newsies. This was the 30th annual holiday feast held for the newsboys and their guests. Kid Blink, among others, gave toasts and speeches, including one entitled "The Strike, When We Licked", no doubt celebrating their successful strike from the summer. The newsies were served a generous feast of turkey, boiled ham, celery, mashed potatoes, turnips, tea, bread and butter, and -- the newsies favorite -- pies.

[sources: 1, 2, 3, 4]

This year, to celebrate the 155th anniversary of the first annual Duane Street holiday feast, I have put together a list of prompts for the first annual Duane Street December. Happy Holidays!

tag: #duane street december

(transcribed list under the cut)

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NEWSIES Duane Street December

First Snow

Favorite Character

Irving Hall/Medda's Theatre

Holiday Decorations

Family

Kid Blink

Mittens

Boots Arbus

Marbles

Best Friends

Cold Feet

Our Man Denton

Little Newsies

Snowman

Traditions

The Jacobs Family

Warmth

Something Unexpected

Snowball Fight

Jack Kelly

Little Brother

Bad Luck

Dreidel

Patrick's Mother

Turkey and Pie/The Duane Street Dinner

Gift Giving

Improvin' The Truth

Candlelight

Kloppman

Mistletoe

New Years Eve, 1899

[midnightdemonhunter]

arsonist's lullaby.

[serialkillerbettycooper]

i have a question

[heart-select]

i just want a cozy farming survival sim but u play as a beaver

like consider

You are a beaver

(and it's not a bunch of personified construction beavers like a civ game. u are just a beaver)

It's a third-person game, and u can swim around ur made ponds well but are slow on land

u start of building up ur own dam in a small stream. being weary of predators and also ur stamina/food

It's slow going, but u meet other beavers along the way. the damnslowly gets built, stick by stick, pebble by pebble

seasonal cycle much like farming games but its u just storing food up for winter

u get a taste for wood and ur other companion beavers also have their preferences

Decorating ur Lodge (during winter most likely)

There are other animals in the area u can talk to, befriend, or scare away

u gotta dig ditches and stuff to get to more of forest areas if u wanna expand more.

its a grindy brain empty game and ur just living ur life as a beaver

sound mechanics where u r v aware of Running streams (incase ur dam needs reparing), tree sounds so they dont fall on u while ur eating, possible predators etc

work with other beavers so u can lessen work load like doing dam repairs or lodge building/expansion/repairs

random events like new visitors (friendly and not so friendly) or even wildfires

Im just... I was watching a beaver video and I genuinely was surprised for all the living habits and stuff they do, no one has thought to do a cozy grindy game abt em thats not civ like. they have like all the staple farming sim stuff. A Home, an area, and a whole bunch of shit to do before winter/year end.

[maskofenigma]

i know its just for game mechanic purposes, but the fact that time the healer covers so much is very funny to me (and probably no one else.) especially during christmas. your employers hand you your paycheck and then immediately dumps as much snow on your doorstep as they can. they hit your neighbors while theyre at it

[phantomrune]

it's so funny that Josephine and other's speak to Azalea like nobility bc she's here like "I haven't talked to my family in years....."

[opiumvampire]

looking for a roommate is making me want to drag myself into a ditch and die dude its so embarrassing to be like “hiiii does anybody want to live with me……… i have a really nice apartment…….. i promise im normal im only looking for a roommate because my boyfriend went insane again…….. please give me $800-$1300 to live in a house that isnt yours…… also sorry if i scream into a pillow sometimes im working through something……”

[baronmagikcarp]

About a month ago, my wife and I went to a nearby city for a short trip, just for fun. The city in question is not what you'd call a destination place, it was just out of state and somewhere neither of us had really been. We got a lot of, "Why there!?" from people. To which I honestly said, "We haven't been and it's not too far away."

Of course, people were still confused but we went and we had a great time. On the way home, my wife and I were laughing about the confusion people had and I realized something. I told my wife, "You know, I think it's because we really do make our own fun. We can go anywhere and find something to do."

This is quite true and I think it's something that can be taught. It's also really useful if you're broke but still want to do something. I'm going to give you a few ideas here that apply to both travel and local things to do.

1) Re-align what you think of as An Event. If you think of An Event as some huge production, then you'll have issues. An Event can be as simple as going to the park. If you need something to make it a bit different so it feels noteworthy, change it up a bit and go to the park with the intention of doing something out of the ordinary (fly kites, drum circle, sing, watch the stars come out, whatever).

2) Get signed up to tourism emails (local, state, etc). You'll see a lot of little festivals and stuff. Make a habit of going and looking at those tourism sites every couple of months and keeping track of stuff that looks interesting.

3) Check out local colleges/universities to see if they have any free productions going on. Really helpful if your local college has a performing arts program. Even if they're not free, often times they're really low cost.

4) Kill the cringe. If you see something that just seems silly, go anyway! Worse case, you leave early but you might end up having a ball. This also helps you keep an open mind.

5) Be flexible. This ties into #4 as well in that if you kill the cringe and are flexible, you'll try stuff you normally wouldn't think about trying. This is also really important when you travel. We usually end up talking with someone who's local while we're there and they could have some really cool suggestions. This last trip we ended up talking with a retail clerk for half an hour as he infodumped on us about places to eat. Every place we ate at he suggested and every single one was absolutely amazing.

6) Google Maps. Go to Google Maps, center it over your area (or wherever you're going) and type what you're wanting to do. Keep it short and sweet. For example, I just did this today looking for performing arts theaters in my area. I typed in "Theater" and hit go. I had to sort out the movie theater places but I still found at least one performing arts theater I'd never heard of in my area. Suggestions to try are Parks, Theaters, and Museums. You'll sometimes see groupings as well, like a couple of museums and theaters close together and that gives you a hint to go and look in that district of town for more stuff.

7) Last but not least, keep a positive attitude. Everything might end up sucking on whatever outing you went on but that's not the end of the world. Just know when to cut your losses and bounce. At least you might get a good story out of it.

[deadsince1973]

If one of these categories feels too general for your specific brainrot, feel free to vote for "Other". Follow your heart. :3

[gotta-pet-em-all]

Pro gamer tip! Some autistic people are terrible at reading subtext. And if not explicitly told that they are being exiled, will assume it is simply an errand they are being sent on in a very angry tone. While the sky is red and they are being blamed.

(I know I probably wouldn't fare much better in Hisui, but honestly, Natural, please stay safe...)

[nullthevoidsheep]

Alright, I have a Fallen London endgame character who I need to figure out something to do with until some new stories appear. Here's the question, echo grind for goat or grinding from 15 to 21 scholar of the correspondence?

For the latter I'd probably seek out a correspondent for some of those sweet sweet flame proof missives for the last couple of levels. The former, I'm not certain, guess I'll check the wiki for the good grinds lmao.

Maybe I'll try for hellworm one day, but I personally feel like sotc and goat are less painful grinds. I may be wrong, but eh.

[priestfrommidnightmass]

now that it’s no longer halloween season i’m gonna change my profile picture back from scream 5 and it’s a difficult decision where i’ll go this time… however there’s a 90 percent chance it will absolutely still be my queen ione skye

[quenthel]

Also my god I will have to be at this conference in a few weeks at 8 and it's 3 hours from the airport... I'll probably have to get home, sleep until like 4 and then try to catch the earliest train so I can make it... And then present like that oh my fucking god...

[eileen-crys]

Mary: Freddie didn't want Garden Lodge to become a museum.

Me and everyone: ok, fair, Garden Lodge was his house. But how about just making a Queen museum with all the costumes and lyrics he kept? Only the band-related stuff that we all love and has important cultural value. Please ask Queen about it.

Mary: