Extra hour to gobble

Cast a ballot, check the clock, pluck the turkey and call the ducks

STORY AND ILLUSTRATIONS

BY RON WOLFE

February has lovebirds, March is for Easter chicks, and the American eagle rules July, but November is the biggest bird month of all — turkey month! — with trimmings of ballot boxes, alarm clocks, twinkle lights, ice skaters and banana pudding.

1 Aviation History Month, National Inspirational Role Models Month, Chemistry Week. Go up, grow up, blow up.

WEAVING IN AND OUT Ozark Folk Festival through Nov. 4, Eureka Springs. Details at eurekasprings.org. Call (479)

253-7333. TISSUE U. John Brown University Toilet Paper

Game, 7

p.m. at Bill George Arena, Siloam Springs. The first time the home team scores a field goal, the crowd throws a blizzard of toilet paper. Technical foul? Yes — on a roll. Call (479) 524-7304.

HEARTH, THE HERALD ANGELS SING

2 “Norman Rockwell’s Home for the Holidays” exhibit of Saturday Evening Post cover tearsheets, through Dec. 9 at Laman Library, North Little Rock. Details at lamanlibrary.org. Call (501) 758-1720.

Drama Raft of the Medusa through Nov. 3 and weekends through Nov. 17 at The Weekend Theater, Little Rock. Details at weekendtheater.org. Call (501) 374-3761 or (501) 663-9407.

Fall Mini-Bazaar, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; brisket dinner, 5-7 p.m. at Oak Forest United Methodist Church, Little Rock. Call (501) 6639407. ANOTHER DAY IS TOAST

3 Sandwich Day celebrates the inventor

of the sandwich, namely: (A) Ben Franklin, who toasted the first grilled-cheese sandwich on his invention, the pot-bellied stove, 1761; (B) Jimmy John, (C) English aristocrat and gambler John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1762.

Answer at Nov. 27.

PANNED OUT Arkansas Cornbread Festival and baking contests, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on South Main Street in the vicinity of the Bernice Garden, downtown Little Rock. Details at arkansascornbreadfestival.com. Call (501) 617-2511.

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A K PLACE Hike the Buffalo Month with guided tours on Nov. 3, 10, 17 and 24, all leaving from Harrison. Details on the trails at harrisonarkansas.org. Call (870) 741-1789.

Heal Your Life With Love Expo through Nov. 4 at the Clairon Hotel on Lake Hamilton, Hot Springs. Details at bodymindsoulexpos.com. Call (501) 955-2063.

ADOS TO DO Little Rock Folk Club concert with Sara Grey and Keiron Means, 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Little Rock. Details at littlerockfolkclub.org. Call (501) 663-0634.

Madrigal feast with children’s and youth choirs and The Fool Hardies performed by the Young Players of the Royal Theatre, 6 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, Benton. Call (501) 317-7276.

Fall craft show and used book sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, Little Rock. Call (501) 240-4035.

SNOOZE REPORT

4 End of daylight saving time. Clocks fall back one hour at 2 a.m. People fall back, and their dogs fall back. too, for an hour’s more sleep. The day goes wrong an hour later than usual. FUSE REPORT

5 Guy Fawkes Day remembers the “gunpowder, treason and plot” to blow up England’s Houses of Parliament, in 1602. Now, all it takes to cause a blow-up in England is a camera on a clear day. LOTTA BALLOT LOTTO

6 General Election Day. Check one: [ ] Republican. [ ] Democrat. [ ] Independent. [ ] Undecided. [ ] Rather just Tweet about it. CAUTION: MEN CORKING

7 Eureka Springs Wine and Food Festival through Nov. 11, Eureka Springs. Call (479) 253-7333. MICE AND OTHERS STIRRING

8 Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival, 7 p.m. at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 7453000.

Junior League of Little Rock Holiday House shopping through Nov. 10 at the Statehouse Convention Center, Little Rock. Details at jllr.org. Call (501) 375-5557.

Bluegrass Festival through Nov. 10 at Ozark Folk Center, Mountain View. Details at ozarkfolkcenter. com. Call (870) 269-3851.

JOLLY ST. NICKEL-US

9 Arkansas Numismatic Society Coin Show through Nov. 11 at Jacksonville Community Center, Jacksonville. Call (501) 985-1663.

JOHN MEETS DOE Buck Fever Festival through Nov. 11, Banks. Call (870) 8202586. SOUND THE FIFE, BEAT THE

DRUM

10 Arkansas Symphony Orchestra casual-dress concert, Beethoven and Blue Jeans, 8 p.m. Nov. 10 and 3 p.m. Nov. 11 at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Details at arkansassymphony.org. Call (501) 666-1761.

Reggae band The Wailers, 8 p.m. at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at waltonartscenter.org. Call (479) 443-5600.

STEP IN TIME

Prehistoric Footwear shoeweaving workshop with archaeologist Liz Horton, 9 a.m-2 p.m. at Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park near Scott. Call (501) 961-9442.

United Methodist Women’s art and craft sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; lunch 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Highland Valley United Methodist Church, Little Rock. Call (501) 664-1335.

Veterans Day

11 VANISHING ACT Art of Illusion show featuring young magicians, 2 p.m. at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, Little Rock. Details at billfulton-entertainment.com/art.htm. Call (501) 663-9380. WORD PROCESSING

12 How to celebrate National Novel-Writing Month: Just put one word after another, after another, and on like that for 100,000 or so.

“I always write a good first line, but I have trouble writing the others.” — Moliere

PJS AND PBJS

13 Comedy Pajama Tops through Dec. 31 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock. Details at murrysdinnerplayhouse. com. Call (501) 562-3131.

Peanut Butter Lovers’ Month

NANA NANA BO BANA

14 Banana Pudding Lovers Month 15 Frontiersman Zebulon Pike catches sight of a big ol’ heap of rock on the horizon, 1806, and it turns out to be none other than Pike’s Peak, the first case of a mountain of coincidence.

SHOP HISTORY

16 Fall Antiques Show and Sale wine-and-cheese preview, 5:30 p.m.; show and sale Nov. 17-18 at Inn of the Ozarks Convention Center, Eureka Springs. Details at eurekaspringsantiqueshows.com. Call (479) 244-5167. SLICK ENTERTAINMENT

17 River Market on Ice skating through Jan. 6 at the River Market, downtown Little Rock. Details at rivermarket.info. Call (501) 375-2552.

DECK THE DAYS WITH

BOUGHS OF HOLI

Holiday craft and gift sale through Nov. 18 at Jacksonville Community Center, Jacksonville. Call (501) 982-2613.

Holiday candle-making workshop, 9 a.m.-noon at the Plantation Agriculture Museum, Scott. Call (501) 961-1409.

FOWL PLAY Wings Over the Prairie Festival and Championship Duck Calling Contest through Nov. 24, Stuttgart. Championship duckcalling and duck gumbo cook-off on Nov. 24. Details at stuttgartarkansas.org. Call (870) 673-1602.

ALL EARS

18 Mickey Mouse’s 84th birthday. The world’s most famous rodent debuted in Steamboat Willie (1928), the same year that science-fiction author Philip K. Dick was born. The question is: Do androids dream of electric mice?

Hickory-dickory-dock, The mouse ran up the clock, And chewed the cord that ran it, Which gave the mouse a shock; The mouse fell back An hour and said, “This time change “Messes with my head.” AGAINST THE GRAIN 19 Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month TWINKLING MAN’S LIGHT

SHOW

20 Enchanted Land of Lights and Legends drive-through light show through Dec. 31 at Pine Bluff/ Jefferson County Regional Park. Details at pineblufffestival. org. Call (870) 536-7600.

ELF SERVICE

21 Toys Designed by Artists exhibit through Jan. 6 at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. Details at arkarts.com. Call (501) 372-4000. TURKEY, TOFU — WHY

CHOOSE?

22 Thanksgiving, Vegan Month. No bird is so quirky As this one: Tofurky — A curd made to thicken That tastes just like chicken.

23 Roots Day. Genealogists discover that nearly every

family tree has a turkey in it. CONVIVIAL PURSUIT

24 Game and Puzzle Week — or as word-jumble puzzlers would say: GEMA NAD LEPUZZ EWEK. LAYERS OF HISTORY

25 Rogers Historical Museum’s Winter Wonderland tours of the 1895 Hankins House, Rogers. Details at rogersarkansas. com/museum. Call (479) 6211154.

Parfait Day DOOM WITH A VIEW

26 Twenty-five days until the end of the world, according to ancient Mayan prophecy — or sooner, depending on how bad the mall is. WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN

AND RYE

27 Quite a handful quiz answer: (C) The Earl of Sandwich. He invented the namesake sandwich as a way to grab a bite at the card table. History has lost the details of what hand of cards he held, but in the other hand? — Turkey on a king-size bun, probably, with pepper jack, queen olives and chips. NO BUSINESS LIKE SNOW

BUSINESS

28 White Christmas — stage version of the 1954 movie musical that starred Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, through Dec. 30 at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock. Details at therep.org. Call (501) 378-0405.

FIR THE CAUSE

29 CARTI Auxiliary Festival of Trees through Dec. 1 at the Statehouse Convention Center, Little Rock; benefits the Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute. Events include the fatherand-daughter Sugar Plum Ball on Nov. 29 and dine-and-dance Tux ’n’ Trees, Dec. 1. Details at carti. com. Call (501) 660-7634. THE MOUSE THAT STIRRED

30 City Mouse, Country Mouse, Christmas House through Dec. 16 at the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theater, Little Rock. Call (501) 372-4000.

Drama The Outsiders through Dec. 1, continuing Dec. 7-8 and 14-15 at The Weekend Theater, Little Rock. Call (501) 374-3761.

Coming next month: December! Call (501) 399-3633, write to Ron Wolfe, Arkansas DemocratGazette, 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72201, or e-mail rwolfe@arkansasonline.com