It's been exactly a year to the day since I last replied to your request, but I didn't forget. Just this morning I came across a picture where St. Nicholas...
SCOTTSBURG, Ind. -- Mark Obermiller has put out 135,400 lights. He has connected them with five miles of extension cord. He expects a wattage bill alone of...
Here's an interesting story about an anonymous Christmas gift to a battered woman and her teenaged son. While the story itself is heartwarming, it's nice to...
Hello All: I recently received an email from a reader of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas web site (http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com). He was looking...
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. It seems lots of people in upstate New York didn't have a chance to take down their holiday decorations before the...
Hi Doug, This carol doesn't turn up in my collection either. If the Library of Congress music division is online, you may be able to e-mail them. While in the...
Please take a moment to share a bit of your Christmas background and interests: 1. What country are you from? canada 2. What is your favorite Christmas...
Journalist Walter Cronkite (now retired from CBS-TV) was right in the midst of things during World War II. On Christmas Day 1944, the Battle of the Bulge was...
Dear All, hi folks! My name is Jessica, and I hail from Tucson, Arizona, USA. Ive been fascinated with Christmas since I could first pronounce it and its an...
1. What country are you from? United States of America 2. What is your favorite Christmas tradition? I love them all really. It is really the mix of all...
"A Monmouthshire Christmas" is an excellent softcover book compiled by Maria and Andrew Hubert. This colorful anthology of Christmas in Monmouthshire (U.K.)...
For fellow members' information, Amazon.com lists "A Monmouthshire Christmas" (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1995) as out of print, yet Barnesandnoble.com carries it...
Dear Bill, dear all, I'm glad to be a member of Christmas International.Let's keep the Christmas spirit alive wherever we are! Here are my answers to the 6...
It's good to have you here Cristian. We don't have very many members from Romania. I'm going to look for the Romanian Christmas music that you mentioned to see...
Bill and Friends; I had written to Cristian privately and asked if he might send the songs to me for inclusion on The Hymns and Carols of Christmas, ...
Regretably, the URL wrapped on my monitor. Here's a smaller one that you can copy and paste: http://tinyurl.com/e98q Regards, Doug ... [Non-text portions of...
Hi everyone! I am Ross Caldwell, I live in Béziers, France. I have a quite specific question to start off - I am interested in the customs of the Christmas...
Hello Bill and friends! Me and my wife visited last week Vammala, a little home town of our beloved author and cartoonist Mauri Kunnas. He has made many...
With much sadness, we read today of the passing of American entertainment legend Bob Hope, who had turned 100 years old just two months ago. In addition to...
In looking at the history of carols, we can find no better expert than the late Maria Augusta Trapp who's life story became the basis for the film "The Sound...
by Neva Chonin, San Francisco Chronicle The two dozen people wearing Santa hats and blowing kazoos in Union Square on Wednesday weren't lost Christmas...
Here's a story about one of Bob Hope's Christmas shows: CHRISTMAS IN VIETNAM - 1970 What I remember most about Christmas in Nam was getting to fly to DaNang to...
Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, there were other mid- winter festivals that were observed in various parts of the world. These celebrations...
December, 1966 in Qui Nhon, Vietnam. I had only been in country two months with a supply company. I made it to the show and offered to help do some chair set...
