The Women of Gloucester County :: Arts & Entertainment

The Language of Flowers
by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
2/2/2012 - The heroine of this tale is Victoria Jones, who is eighteen years old and just emancipated (the legal term mentioned repeatedly and significantly) from a childhood of foster and group homes. She trusts no one, and has no friends or attachments, but she does have one characteristic: an extraordinary love of and gift for working with flowers and plants. [more]

candy cane What’s Left Behind
Ultimately Connects Us All
2/3/2012 - The peppermint fragrance is left behind for weeks after the event, and each time I smell it, it connects me to memories of dozens of Christmas Eves and holiday traditions spent with people I have grown to love. [more]

Drumbeat
New Perspectives
1/3/2012 - I have wondered how many things I was missing in life due to my own limited perspective. How often am I overlooking something great because I view things through the biases formed by my life experience and my own strong opinions? If I resolve to do anything this new year, it will be to let some fresh perspectives into my way of thinking. [more]

VisionPixie Entertainment Review
New Fall Lineup
11/2/2011 - VisionPixie has high expectations for 2011! So much to see, so much to review, so little time… thank goodness for the invention of OnDemand. Let’s focus on the new one hour dramas and away we go… [more]

Payton Taylor
'Shine'
11/1/2011 - Payton Taylor, a Washington Twp. resident, is only 14 years old, but she is already well on her way to making her mark on the Country Music industry. [more]

young mom son Young Mom, Old Mom
11/1/2011 - Times change. This is quite evident in the stands at a baseball game where I sit to watch my youngest son play. I am surrounded by moms who are here to watch their oldest sons play, which means they are all much younger than I am – some nearly two decades younger. [more]

The Mysterious Roots of Bingo

Bingo has a very quirky and interesting history, but a lot of bingo players don’t know its real story and simply enjoy the game. Knowing the roots and history of the game would definitely add enjoyment to your online bingo when you come by the social hall next time or when you are playing online bingo.

It was only in the 1920s when this popular card game of chance was introduced in the US, but it dates farther than that. In the 18th century, an original Italian lotto game was introduced to France. The game Le Lotto was a very popular game among people of stature and of high society, especially in gatherings and parties.

Le Lotto is also played with cards, and players would mark the numbers announced by a caller who draws random numbers. The first player to cover one row wins the game. The card played here has three rows and nine columns, while each of the three rows consists of 10 numbers and each column has five random numbers and four blank spaces in it.

By the 19th century, the game spread all over Europe and started to serve as a didactic children’s game that around the 1850s, several educational lotto games made its way to the German toy market. The game’s purpose was to teach children how to spell words, how to multiply numbers and more.

There was another game that was very popular in the US around the beginning of the 19th century and it was called Beano. Players would place beans on their cards to mark the called out numbers and the first player to complete a row in his card get to yell out ‘beano’ and win the prize. However, there was an event where a toy salesperson held a Beano party one evening, and one of his guests playing Beano stuttered in her excitement and accidentally yelled out ‘Bingo.’

Lowe then decided to develop a new game named Bingo, and he even consulted a mathematician to create 6,000 bingo cards to lessen the probability of players winning. A professor Carl Leffler went nuts after the project and Lowe made lots of money.

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