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Entries by Jeff Westover
Jimmy Stewart’s Other Christmas Movie
In a 1980 production of a low budget and not-so widely distributed film directed by Academy Award winning director Keith Merrill, Jimmy Stewart gives the holiday performance of a lifetime. Unlike that other Christmas movie (It’s a Wonderful Life) starring Stewart nearly forty years before this one features neither the predictable sub-plots of good versus […]
I Take Offense at Your Offense
It is tough for me to get through this season of “Christmas creep”. No, not the fact that Christmas is so visible in the months before Thanksgiving. I’m sick of people complaining about it. In fact — I’m offended. What really set me off is this guy in Canada griping about how Christmas decorations in […]
History of the American Santa
Santa Claus, much like Christmas itself, is a symbol of all things sacred and secular related to Christmas. From classic Coca Cola ads from early 20th century print still remembered and revered today to modern Hollywood creations like Bad Santa that we’d rather forget, the American evolution of Santa Claus just never seems to be […]
New Music: Christmas to Me by Don Murdock
Don Murdock is a country singer/songwriter who loves Christmas! Don was raised a Catholic and as a youngster has memories of attending Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, of caroling door to door, and of Christmas concerts at school. Like many Canadians he grew up with traditions of decorating Christmas trees and spending time with family […]
Christmas for the American Slave
Christmas for the American slave was a time of hope and irony. Slaveholders and white landowners, as many Americans do today, deviated from their routines during the holidays for the celebration of Christmas and the New Year. It was a time of festivity and gift giving. Slaves looked forward to Christmas because it meant a […]
