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Saturday, December 27, 2014
KISSING GEORGE WASHINGTON Part Three
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I favor the theory that “Boxing Day” began when servants, required to serve their masters at Christmas Day banquets, were sent home th...
Friday, December 26, 2014
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
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I have two favorite Christmas chorals; the haunting Carol of the Bells, composed in 1904 by Ukrainian Mykola Leontovych, and the seeming...
Thursday, December 25, 2014
KISSING GEORGE WASHINGTON Part Two
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I consider North Carolina the arena of storms. It's where the 6,000 foot high Black Mountains constrain invading cold dry Canadian ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
BATTLE OF THE NATIVITY
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I am tempted to call it a primeval struggle, drenched in antiquity, shrouded in religious fervor and destined to feed future conflict unt...
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