Christmas
Blog Caroling: O, Little Town of Bethlehem
Like many creative things in our Geneablogosphere, blog caroling owes its origin to the irrepressible footnoteMaven. Since I blogged earlier this month at the Catholic Gene [here] that my favorite Christmas Carol is O Holy Night, this evening here I’ll blog carol my second favorite Christmas song, with the mandatory Nat King Cole rendition. O Little Town of Bethlehem O …
December 14, 2011 Wednesday at 11:10 pm
Classic Christmas Correspondence: Yes, Virginia . . .
One of the iconic bits of twentieth century lore consists of a letter to the editor of a newspaper from a eight year old girl and the editor’s response. The letter written by Virginia O’Hanlon, daughter of a New City physician, was addressed to the editor of the New York Sun, a major New York broadsheet which published from 1833 …
December 24, 2009 Thursday at 7:07 pm
Noel Miscellany
Jasia has posted the 38th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy. The topic is “The New Millenium.” I didn’t go to the Carnival this time because my experience of Y2K was rather boring, frankly. The theme for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy will be: New Year’s Resolutions. As the year winds to a close in the next …
December 19, 2007 Wednesday at 10:00 pm
Christmas 1958
Craig, Baby Sister, and brother with Sankt Nikolaus inFrankfurt am Main
December 16, 2007 Sunday at 5:10 am
My Trilingual Christmases
Geneablogger footnoteMaven has started a Christmas caroling meme. I’ve mentioned before that part of my childhood was spent in Germany. I went to a German school for part of that time and we had a German nanny. I was immersed in the culture and language at an early age. And Christmas in Germany became one of my favorite times and …
December 15, 2007 Saturday at 5:47 am
Sankt Nikolaus Tag
When I lived in Germany as a child, we celebrated every year Sankt Nikolaus Tag. On the night of December 5, we would place our shoes outside the door. If we had been good that year, Sankt Nikolaus would leave chocolates, fruit, and other goodies in our shoes. If we had been bad, then we would find wood switches in …
December 6, 2007 Thursday at 5:18 pm
