Christmas traditions
Subtitle: true stories that celebrate the spirit of the season
By: edited by Helen Szymanski
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Avon, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781598698381
Subjects: Anecdotes; Christmas; Fiction
Description: Stories that take the reader on a magical journey through Christmas past and present, while giving the reader ideas for traditions they, too, could adapt for their future. Each story is a true accounting of either shared or unique traditions celebrated by families, communities, and/or groups during the Christmas holiday season.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- by Helen Szymanski; title: Love notes on my tree  -- by Joan Clayton; title: Santa's call  -- by Donna Sundblad; title: Maybe it's a pony  -- byCheryl K. Pierson -- Holly Berry Dreams / -- byRosemary Goodwin; title: The gift of knowledge  -- by Anna Von Reitz; title: Mrs. Claus  -- byDiane Serio; title: Modern-Day drummer  -- byAngie Ledbetter; title: Observations from the edge: Christmas on the lower nine  -- byElaine K. Green; title: If you believe in magic  -- byAlissa Marie Polaski; title: The old santa hat  -- byJanet F. Smart; title: A tradition postponed  -- byEdward L. Melin; title: Table gifts  -- byKathryn Arnold; title: Gifts of the magi  -- byCynthia Brian; title: The seemingly insignificant present  -- byNaomi Levine; title: Bayberry memories  -- byCharlene A, Derby; title: Angels we have heard on high  -- byAmber Brecht; title: Piano Solo  -- byPat Gallant; title: Purposeful journey  -- byHeidi Lee Overson; title: PJ presents  -- by Jo Rae Johnson; title: Recipe from Heaven ; title: byMargaret Lang --; title: The photograph  -- byAl Serradell; title: Finding the perfect  -- byTrish Ayers; title: Tracking Twinkies  -- byShannon Jacobyansky; title: Too much Christmas  -- byAmy Ammons Mullis; title: Trach to treasure  -- byBarbara Farland; title: The taste of Christmas  -- byAnne MCcrady; title: The funnies  -- byCarlene Rae Dater; title: Christmas diaries  -- byJoyce Stark; title: Christmas Shells  -- Sally Clark; title: The red Velvet stocking  -- byNadja Meri Brnitt; title: Oyster stew with mother  -- byDorothy L. Bussemer; title: A family tradition  -- byBill Pearsall; title: A celluloid Christmas  -- byCappy Hall Rearick; title: Believing in magic  -- byAnn Hite; title: Faux Santa  -- byJ. M. Pantatello; title: The Christmas dance  -- byDavid C. Nitz; title: and having a ball  -- byStephen D. Rogers; title: Feast day in pharaoh land  -- byPatti Mattison Livingston; title: Staying home with scarlatina  -- byDiane Buller; title: Honoring the son  -- byCarol Nyman; title: Messages ina bottle  -- byJ. Troy Seate; title: Christmas Eve luminaria  -- byJean Haynie Stewart; title: Nona, nuts, and nostalgia  -- byPam Giordano; title: Happy memories and bright futures  -- byConnie Bigil Platt; title: The rudolph sweater  -- byDixon Hearne; title: Silver linings  -- byTerri Tiffany; title: The mirror pond . -- byJunette Kirkham Woller; title: An ocean apart  -- byCharlie Hudson; title: A new tradition  -- byLisa Finch; title: No wonder I believe  -- byLinda Mehus-Barber; title: The special box  -- byLaurs S. WHite; title: Letting the light chine  -- bySonja Herbert; title: The thank-you kiss  -- byNancy Allan; title: Moon flight  -- byCarol MCadoo Rehme; title: Wired  -- bySheila Obrien Schimpf; title: The best Christmas ever  -- byPatricia F.D'Ascoli; title: Two Christmas wishes  -- byGeorgia A. Hubley; title: Maxaroni necklaces and cumbersome pride  -- byM. Deloris Henscheid; title: The autograph collector  -- byKevin Lynch; title: Of books and dogs dreams coming true  -- byRuth Coe Chambers; title: Pictures with santa  -- byRebecca Burgener; title: The guiding star  -- byBill Pearsall; title: Speechless  -- byLoy Michael Cerf; title: A change of attitude  -- byCarol Nyman; title: White paper snowflakes  -- byMichelle Ciarlo-Hayes; title: Christmas in the rare aul times  -- byPatricia Hopper; title: First christmas  -- byEvan Guildford-Blake; title: The adent calendar  -- bySuzanne Waring; title: The light in the east -- byShirley P. Gumert.