Christmas in Minnesota /

Familiar traditions echo across the years in funny, poignant, and surprising ways: a family welcomes a Swedish traveler to their cozy sod house on the prairie; a schoolgirl is frightened by her role in the spotlight for the annual pagaent; a stranger makes Christmas possible for a family after the f...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ziebarth, Marilyn (Editor), Horrigan, Brian (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Christmas chronicles
  • Christmas Eve in a sod house / Hugo Nisbeth
  • No sound of joyous Christmas bells / Mary Dodge Woodward
  • In the American fashion / Works Progress Administration
  • Screaming their excited delight / Melvin L. Frank
  • Christmas on the Gunflint / Justine Kerfoot
  • A Christmas tree for birds / Florence Page Jaques
  • Once again it is Christmas / Wendell Anderson
  • Where are the trees? / Robert Treuer
  • They want to hear a story / Faith Sullivan
  • Like the haunting croon of Goodman's clarinet / Roger MacDonald
  • This is my favorite part / Lorna Landvik
  • Celebrating Christmas in Lake Wobegon / Garrison Keillor
  • Christmas-- is really a terrible day / Charles Flandrau
  • Off the hook / Charles M. Schulz
  • It's the light / Cathy Mauk
  • The Christmas question / Jonis Agee
  • Christmas in the city / Lee Mero
  • My Middle West / F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You could hear sleigh bells / Walter O'Meara
  • Closer to the ground / Jerry Fearing
  • My December duty / Bill Holm
  • How much for this tree without limbs / Louie Anderson
  • Afterthoughts on Christmas trees / Barton Sutter
  • Cold feet / Emily Carter
  • The gift of oranges / Beatrice Fines
  • Betsy, Tacy, and Tib go Christmas shopping / Maud Hart Lovelace
  • What a Christmas shopper found / an anonymous lady
  • A day of excitement, of joy / Harrison Salisbury
  • I dreamed I was in New Ulm / Celia Tauer
  • Daddy's gift / Evelyn Fairbanks
  • One more saving grace / Cheri Register
  • In stitches / Sam Cook
  • A cut-glass Christmas / Susan Allen Toth
  • Gifts / Maura Stanton
  • Promises of bright, warm days coming / Samuel Hynes
  • Something "different" / Kevin Kling
  • A Christmas for their souls / Vilhelm Moberg
  • Strange and unusual holidays / Civil War soldiers
  • Come and eat, eat / Otis Terpening
  • Celebration and saunas / Shirley Schoonover
  • The kookie never krumbles / Nick Fauchald
  • Dinner guests / Helen Hoover
  • Coins of the realm / Susan Hauser
  • Mickey's Diner / Colleen Kruse
  • A Minnesota Christmas Eve feast
  • Santi Claw / Syl Jones
  • Carol's Christmas / Sinclair Lewis
  • An adolescent's Christmas / Carol Bly
  • Driving my parents home at Christmas / Robert Bly
  • Everybody smile / Michael Fedo
  • How am I doing, Dad? / Jon Hassler
  • I will never forget : letters.