NOVEMBER CALENDAR

Behold the old

When time rolls back, antiques roll out and the traditional bird is spread about

November is short on daylight and long on thanks. Turkey Lurky thinks the sky is falling. Other things that fall in November include National Novel Writing Month, Black Friday and many a pumpkin spice latte off the dashboard.

1 End of daylight saving time, 2 a.m. Clocks fall back one hour. Time pulls this trick to mystify people who forget the change -- the ones asking all day why nothing starts when it should.

Mexican celebration Day of the Dead welcomes lost souls -- not to be confused with time-change zombies.

WATER POWER

TheatreSquared drama Water by the Spoonful through Nov. 8 at Walton Art Center's Nadine Baum Studios, Fayetteville. Details at theatre2.org. Call (479) 443-5600.

NAME THAT BOONE

2 Frontiersman Dan'l Boone's birthday, 1734. Blow out the flaming arrow, make a wish.

THIS WAY AND THAT

North Dakota admission day, 1889. North Dakota admits Fargo is a far go from Arkansas -- in fact, a far go from anywhere but South Dakota.

South Dakota admission day, 1889. South Dakota admits to a slow pace in spite of Rapid City and Mount Rushmore.

THE BOOTH OF TRUTH

3 General Election Day.

• "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." -- Will Rogers.

OKIE BLOKE

4 Will Rogers' birthday, 1879. The Oklahoma humorist missed being an Arkansas native by just a few miles and a hat-full of dust.

FOR A QUARTER

5 Antiques in the Quarter sale through Nov. 7 at Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, Little Rock. Details at qqumc.org/aitq. Call (501) 375-1600.

BOOM TIME

Guy Fawkes Day, 1605. The British celebrate that malcontent Fawkes' scheme to plant a bomb under the king was foiled by Dr. Who.

FICTION FISSION

6 National Novel Writing Month bangs 'em out despite a lack of all three things it takes to write a book like Hemingway did: (1) a typewriter, (2) paper) and (3) readers.

FRITTERED AWAY

7 Arkansas Cornbread Festival, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. around the Bernice Garden area of South Main Street, Little Rock. Details at arkansascornbreadfestival.com.

BLUES IN THE NIGHT

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra concert, Beethoven & Blue Jeans, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 and 3 p.m. Nov. 8 at Maumelle Performing Arts Center, Maumelle. Details at arkansassymphony.org. Call (501) 666-1761.

THE REAL BLING

"Coca-Cola: An American Original" exhibit of advertising and artifacts through Feb. 15 at the Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock. Details at clintonfoundation.org. Call (501) 374-4242.

PEEKS AT 'TIQUES

Antique Alley Arkansas Antique Show through Nov. 8 at Conway Expo Center, Conway. Details at antiquealleyarkansas.com. Call (501) 230-5728.

CONEHEAD RALLY

8 Dunce Day remembers that the cone-shaped cap once signified an especially bright student of the medieval Scottish scholar, John Duns Scotus. He taught that a headpiece of this sort made knowledge flow to the brain. It was a dumb idea, refuted by modern science's teaching that superiority comes from wearing a hog hat.

WHO? MOI!

9 National Memoir Writing Month. Everyone has a life story. It's just that some are War and Peace, and some are The Poky Little Puppy.

PIP TALK

10 Musical Pippin through Nov. 15 at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at waltonartscenter.org. Call (479) 443-5600.

UNIFORM AGREEMENT

11 Veterans Day.

COOKIE CRUMBLES

12 Vegans Month. Can this be right? A day for veterans -- a month for zucchini muffins.

A CHURCH, A COURTROOM AND THEN DINNER

Mandy Barnett Sings Patsy Cline through Nov. 14 at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock. Details at murrysdp.com. Call (501) 562-3131.

RANDOM ACTS OF COMBUSTION

13 World Kindness Day. Chemistry Week.

DEERLY BELOVED GATHERED HERE

Buck Fever Festival through Nov. 14 in deer central Banks, Bradley County. Call (870) 820-1390.

CANVAS CANVASS

Collectors Show and Sale through Jan. 3 at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. Details at arkansasartscenter.org. Call (501) 372-4000.

'NANA-'NANA, BOEING-BANANA

14 Banana Pudding Lovers Month. Aviation History Month.

THE PLOT QUICKENS

Veterans Memorial 5K race, 8 a.m. at Fayetteville National Cemetery, Fayetteville, supports Regional National Cemetery Improvement Corp. efforts to buy and donate land to expand the cemetery. Details at rncic.com. Call (479) 871-7478.

COLD COMFORT

15 How to celebrate Clean Your Refrigerator Day: Throw out everything green and fuzzy that isn't a kiwi or a mystery worth wondering about.

OU SOONERS OR LATER

16 Arkansas' neighboring Oklahoma Admission Day, 1907. Oklahoma admits the wind doesn't really come whistling o'er the plains -- it comes tooting Coach Bob Stoops' horn.

TOOT, WHISTLE, PLUNK AND BOOM

17 Paragon Ragtime Orchestra Presents the Clown Princes of Silent Comedy. Antics of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd with orchestra accompaniment, 7 p.m. at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at waltonartscenter.org.

SQUEAK DREAMS

18 Mickey Mouse's 87th birthday. Walt Disney desperately came up with the mouse to replace another cartoon character to which he had lost the rights, namely: (A) Oswald the Rabbit, (B) Smokey Bear or (C) Snoop Dogg.

Answer at Nov. 21.

SCIENCE DIGEST

19 Taste of the Holidays at Mid-America Science Museum, Hot Springs. Details at midamericamuseum.org. Call (501) 767-3461.

VIOLA!

String quartet Brooklyn Rider, 7:30 p.m. at Wildwood Park for the Arts, Little Rock. Details at wildwoodpark.org. Call (501) 821-7275.

YARN BALL

20 Ozark Storytellers Gathering, performances and workshops through Nov. 22 at Ozark Folk Center State Park, Mountain View. Details at ozarkfolkcenter.com. Call (870) 269-3851.

GLOBAL GABBLE

21 World Hello Day. Say a friendly hi to the planet on your right, and to the Martian microbes on your left, and pass it along.

ANIMAL HOUSE

Mouse in the house quiz answer: (A) Oswald the Rabbit. Mickey Mouse is like Oswald with round ears, but Minnie Mouse denies ever having been a Playboy Bunny.

GARDEN BULBS

Holiday Lights, 17 acres of 4 million twinkles and glitters through December at Garvan Woodland Gardens, Hot Springs. Details at garvangardens.org. Call (501) 262-9300.

YOU GO, GIRL

Girls on the Run of Northwest Arkansas Fall 5K/10K, downtown Bentonville, benefits the program for girls in third- to eighth-grade. Details at gotrnwa.org. Call (479) 936-1540.

MOUTH THAT ROARED

Lip Sync Battle, 7 p.m. at Argenta Community Theater, North Little Rock, benefits the American Cancer Society. Details at relayforlife.org/lipsyncbattle2015. Call (501) 603-5202.

ALL A'QUIVER

22 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Is today your birthday? If yes, take a bow. Sagittarius the archer rules this month of bolts out of the blue. Take aim with fellow straight arrows Jamie Lee Curtis, 57, Nov. 22; Jon Stewart, 53, Nov. 28; and Ridley Scott, 78, Nov. 30.

EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN

23 National Inspirational Role Models Month -- when Hawkgirl looks up to Wonder Woman, Superboy takes a tip from the Martian Manhunter, and Congress listens for once to Mr. Taxpayer.

ZIR-CONNED

24 How to celebrate Real Jewelry Month: testing which diamonds are real by using these precious rocks to scratch window glass. How burglars know which house has diamonds to steal: scratched windows.

MOPPET CAN'T STOP IT

Musical Annie through Nov. 29 at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at waltonartscenter.org.

AHHH to ZZZZZZZZ

25 How to celebrate Sleep Comfort Month: with a mattress sail.

AND THE REST IS GRAVY

26 Thanksgiving.

GAME AND PUZZLE WEEK CHALLENGE

Unscramble these letters to find out what comes after Thanksgiving: TFELROVE KEYURT DANSHCIW.

Answer at Nov. 30.

SANTA CLAUS MEETS BLITZ KRINGLE

27 Black Friday, official start of Christmas shopping that actually started Dec. 26 of last year. Black Friday is the day to take advantage of door-busting sales on busted doors.

QUACKY OODLES

World Championship Duck Calling Contest and Wings Over the Prairie Festival through Nov. 28, Stuttgart. (Related events start Nov. 21; carnival opens Nov. 25.) Details at stuttgartarkansas.org. Call (870) 673-1602.

PLUCKY BEHAVIOR

National Flossing Day -- the dentist's string theory.

LIKE MATT DAMON -- STUCK ON MARS

28 Peanut Butter Lovers' Month. Red Planet Day.

ON, COMET!

If Mars does have water,

Then here's what I think:

Santa could stop

For his reindeer to drink

En route to bring toys

To Neptunian nippers

And moon-walking slippers

To UFO skippers.

SQUARE DANCING IN THE ROUNDHOUSE

29 Model Railroad Month. Square Dance Day.

HO-HO HOME

Open House and A Rogers Christmas tours of Hawkins House, decorated in the style of 1895, Rogers. Details at rogershistoricalmuseum.org. Call (479) 621-1154.

IN LIKE FINN

30 Mark Twain's birthday, 1835. Twain invented the town of Bricksville, Ark., for Huckleberry Finn to visit, probably based on the Delta town of Napoleon that was lost in a flood. Twain remembered Napoleon from his days as a steamboat pilot as a place of "innumerable fights" and home to "the prettiest girl."

LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT

Enchanted Forest Trail of Lights, nightly through Dec. 30 at Sherwood Forest, Sherwood. Details at cityofsherwood.net.

REHEAT, REPEAT, REDUX

Answer to the puzzle with something to bite on: LEFTOVER TURKEY SANDWICH.

Coming next month: December! Call (501) 399-3633, write to Ron Wolfe, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72203, or email

rwolfe@arkansasonline.com

by Nov. 15 to suggest December calendar entries or how to celebrate December as Bingo Month, such as: played Santa's way, J-I-N-G-O. Each event requires a phone number that is answered during business hours or by an answering machine that identifies the event or its sponsor.

Style on 10/27/2015

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