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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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.