After being passed from generation to generation for 70 years, the family popcorn garland is no longer edible, but it still looks as fluffy and white as the day it was popped.
Each Christmas season, Garden Home resident Katie Wojciechowski trims her 7-foot-tall tree with the garland her grandmother strung in 1942.
Somehow, without the help of any preservatives or shellac of any kind, the popcorn garland has remained intact through seven decades.
"It looks brand new," she says. "People always want to touch it when we tell them how old it is."
It's survived time's corrosive tendencies, as well as the greasy hands of curious visitors and the indiscriminate appetites of a family dog.
The secret, Wojciechowski says, is her grandmother's popping method. She popped the corn in a cast-iron pot without oil, which would have eventually gone rancid."We've kept it every year in one of those old-fashioned tins that potato chips used to come in," Wojciechowski says. "We just curl it up there and take it out every Christmas."
No moth balls or anything. Just a little masking tape to seal the lid on the tin.
The garland adorned Wojciechowski's grandmother's tree for years before it was passed on to her mother. When her parents downsized to a tabletop tree 12 years ago, Wojciechowski inherited the family kernels.
"I expect to pass it on to my daughter," she says.
? Kelly House?
Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2012/12/garden_home_familys_christmas.html
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