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| 2007-04-09 - Weird News Nidhi Sharma - All Headline News Staff Writer Pennsylvania Family Hangs 5,000 Painted Eggs In Yard For Easter | ||
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Saxonburg, PA (AHN) -- Girl Scouts from three Saxonburg-area troops have reportedly helped a Cahill family to hang nearly 5,000 real painted eggs on a tree outside her home on Easter. Margaret Cahill, who hails from Saxonburg, has decorated their yard using real eggs for 50 years. According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, whenever she uses an egg for eating she carefully pokes a 1/4" hole in the shell, extracts the interior and saves the shell. During the summer, she paints the shell with enamel paint and puts it away for Easter. Last year Cahill, 82, and her two daughters - Coralie Cahill, 50, and Bonnie Cahill, 55 painted nearly 60 eggs with enamel paint. Cahill said she was inspired by the book titled "The Egg Tree" by Katherine Milhous, which tells the story of two children who find some eggs in an attic and use them to decorate a tree. The story is based on Pennsylvania Dutch tradition and folk art. Cahill said she doesn't do pysanky, the Ukrainian art of decorating eggs. In pysanky, wax and dyes are used in many ways to create unique patterns.
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