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Manufacturer: Penfield Pr
Publisher: Penfield Pr
Author: Clarence Andrews

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.26630977
EAN: 9780941016117
ISBN: 0941016110
Label: Penfield Pr
Manufacturer: Penfield Pr
Book Pages: 168
Publication Date: 1994-07-01
Publisher: Penfield Pr
Studio: Penfield Pr

Revised & Expanded
Includes Scandinavian, Czech, Polish, German, Italian, Scottish, & Moravian Christmas traditions. In this Christmas smorgasbord, two dozen Midwest writers, natives or residents tell what Christmas has meant to them from pioneer days to the present.
Perfect bound, 9x6"

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Review Summary: Get into the Spirit!
Review: Christmas in the Midwest! the very best of all! From Chicago's Miracle Mile with its myriad of gaily colored lights and its blazing store windows - to the small midwest cities with their downtown lampposts festooned with evergreen and silvery tinsel - to the small towns with their Season's Greetings bannered across the intersection of Main and Elm Streets - to the farm scenes with strings of red and green bulbs entwined round the spindly legs of long-unused windmills and the picture window curtains drawn back to let the tree lights gleam out over the new fallen snow.

And Christmas Eve in little frame and brick churches with "readings" and songs by the children - a decorated tree and some rosy-faced neighbor in a Santa Claus costume - Christmas mornings with families round the tree and the gaily wrapped gifts with their promises waiting to be unwrapped.

And then go over the hill to Grandma's house where all the aunts, uncles and cousins gathered for a gala Christmas feast!

These are images and recollections that M idwesterners and exiled Midwesterners share. You will find these memories and more in the pages of Christmas in the Midwest. Here is a rich assortment in poem, picture, and story, all done by the best of midwest writers and artists such as, Hamlin Garland, Bess Streeter Aldrich, James Whitcomb Riley, John Muir, Marjorie Holmes, Paul Engle, Hartzell Spence, Phil Stong and Susan Allen Toth. They share stories about the Midwest's very first Christmases, Christmases of the pioneers, and Christmases in this changing twenty-first century. Wether the stories and poems are real or imagined, or mixtures of memory and "might-have-been," this collection is guaranteed to stir heartwarming memories of Christmas in the Midwest, and the spirit of the season everywhere.

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