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Happy Boxing Day!

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Well, my reach exceeded my grasp on the Advent calendar, but I’ve still got plenty of non-holiday material to post here, so stay tuned.…

Sing Along with Esso | Advent Calendar, Day 2

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Here’s a Christmas ad from those mid-century magazines that has stuck in my head for the past 50 years. I have to salute the…

A Pictorial Recipe for Plum Pudding | Advent Calendar, Day 1

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I had the good fortune to grow up in a family that kept Christmas very well, and this year, I will be sharing some…

The Other Wise Man

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When we were kids, my father used to read us A Christmas Carol aloud, a stave each night, while my mother baked Christmas cookies…

Ed the light bulb

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Every family has their little holiday traditions. We certainly had plenty–Dad would read A Christmas Carol aloud to us kids, as a result of…

The 1967 Robertson’s Christmas Catalog

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Robertson’s was the big department store in downtown South Bend when I was growing up. It is firmly wedged in my memory, to the…

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