Talk:Egg rolling


 * OOps, I forgot to incllude one more, created tthe samee day: egg tossing (behavior). - Altenmann >talk 22:16, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Untitled
I am not familiar with this game but the article doesn't even talk about what it is...

Credits

 * Hayes paragraph if from a LOC website (Public domain). Mikkalai 02:29, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Image "Easter Egg Roll 2.jpg" from Library of Congress collection

Children of same-sex couples
Why is the 2006 'gay news' comment relevant? I am all for equal rights and have even attended pride rallies. But, I was not aware that wikipedia was so interested in the spearheading for the gay rights agenda. Shouldn't such 'tidbits' be reserved for 'news' sites rather than encyclopedias?
 * The unnecessary 'Gay adgenda' rhetoric aside, I'd have to agree. Could that even be called a controversy?  As far as I can remember, nobody particularly cared; it's not as though they weren't welcome. I've removed it. -- Vary | Talk 03:31, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I edited a notation someone else made about President Obama extending invitations to gay couples and their kids for the first time. While gay couples have attended before, this was the first year they've been invited by an administration so I tried to make that clear.  I also added a reference regarding it. 66.142.234.246 (talk) 23:12, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I've rephrased, as it sounded, again, as if gay couples were banned from the egg roll up until this year, which isn't the case. I'm not completely happy with my version, but I do think it's important for neutrality's sake that we not give the impression that children of gay couples were banned in the way that minority children were at one time.  -- Vary  Talk 23:37, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Origins and Easter bunny
I rephrased a misleading sentence, which could be read to suggest that the Easter Bunny came to the US from Britain as well as from Germany. The Easter Bunny was unknown in the UK until very recently, and is now being introduced here due to aping of US festivals - similarly we are now starting to do trick or treating and proms, both unknown here in my childhood. 86.133.55.238 (talk) 21:19, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes your right I didn't phrase that too well. I'm also from the UK and only knew of "trick or treat" from American comics (Superman etc.) until it became popular in the UK over the last twenty years or so. However, if you look into the history of trick or treat you'll find that it is also thought to have developed from old European traditions and has come back across the Atlantic in a new form from America. see here and here Richerman (talk) 00:32, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Participation of African-American Children
I was surprised by the assertion that "Mrs. Eisenhower opened the event to black children for the first time." I have a stereograph of the 1901 egg-rolling which includes many black children. Perhaps there was an exclusionary rule later in the 20th century, but apparently not then. Cockeyed (talk) 00:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Are you talking about a stereograph of egg rolling at the Capitol? - 7-bubёn >t 00:58, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

No, I am talking about a stereograph taken on the White House lawn, copyright 1901 by C. H Graves, published by the Universal Photo Art Co. of Philadelphia. Remarkably, there is another, nearly identical shot at the Library of Congress. It must have been taken within moments of the other, because many of the foreground figures are in almost the same positions. In the LOC shot, however, all of the African-American children are absent. There are big swatches of lawn where they were standing. I doubt the photo was retouched to that extent. Either they drifted into the frame between shots (most likely) or they were told to scram.Cockeyed (talk)

I concur with Cockeyed -- here is the link to a 1901 article written in The Strand Magazine with the picture to which I assume Cockeyed is referring. NoirFemme (talk) 24:32, 20 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I also ran across File:1923 WH Easter Egg roll.jpg at the Library of Congress, taken at the 1923 Easter Egg roll, which shows black and white children together. Kelly  hi! 16:39, 18 April 2013 (UTC)


 * According to this item in the April 5, 1904 edition of the Los Angeles Herald, the 1904 White House egg roll included "Hundreds of children, of all colors and conditions". This would be consistent with both President Roosevelt's progressivism and the fact that this was during the nadir of American race relations. (President Roosevelt's inviting Booker T. Washington inside the White House was intensely controversial, but the presence of African-American children outside the building may have been less so.) Gildir (talk) 05:22, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Historical evidence
As far as I can see there are no sources in this lemma that can be read as actual proof of the existence of this tradition in or even before the 18th century. And as far as I know, it was invented in the 19th century and only given the appearance of an old tradition by writers. I'm going to remove the line about the Netherlands, most of my country is so flat that rolling eggs by gravity is like watching paint dry...Maggy (talk) 11:28, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

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Comments by JaneSprat
I've never used talk, so if I'm doing it wrong, sorry. But why does Obama's particular event get showcased when everything else is about firsts: when it was moved to the White House, and Mamie's letting in Black children, etc.? JaneSprat (talk) 23:20, 12 April 2017 (UTC)