A Connecticut Christmas

Author : Caryn B. Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493026067

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A Connecticut Christmas by Caryn B. Davis Pdf

Celebrate the Holiday Traditions of the Nutmeg State! A Connecticut Christmas is a photographic journey celebrating classic New England traditions, beauty, spirit, and community surrounding the holiday. From light displays to decorated churches and inns, spectacular private homes, festivals, carolers, town greens, and picturesque villages, this beautiful book of images and accompanying essays takes readers on a magical holiday tour through the Nutmeg State

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Night Before Christmas in
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1728237637

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'Twas the Night Before Christmas in Connecticut by Anonim Pdf

A classic Christmas story featuring all the magic of Santa combined with the magic of your favorite city, state, or country. It's the night before Christmas and you're nestled snug in your bed. Your stocking is hung by the chimney with care--will Santa visit your house? Follow Santa's journey in this magical retelling of a Christmas classic starring the locations and landmarks that make the place where you live special!

Author : Jasinda Wilder
Publisher : Jasinda Wilder
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948445702

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Christmas in Connecticut by Jasinda Wilder Pdf

Don’t date your students’ single fathers. It’s an obvious rule. It leads to complications. And it’s a rule I’ve never broken, nor even been tempted to break. I mean, for one thing, I don’t date. Not for lack of trying, but I’m just too damaged. My heart is too broken. Riley Kerr, however, isn’t my student. She’s in second grade, and she’s the sweetest, most darling young girl I’ve ever met. So when my path begins crossing her father’s, it’s complicated. Rory Kerr is…handsome. Rough-hewn. Solitary. But such a kind and loving father. And not the father of one of my students. He’s not really off-limits. Except that of my broken heart. Which he seems to just…effortlessly mend, piece by piece, without even realizing it. The holidays are approaching, and I usually spend them with my dysfunctional family back in Colorado. It’s not something I look forward to. But they’re all I have, so my Christmases are always spent there, with them. This year, the blooming something between Rory and me has me wondering… maybe this year I’ll be spending Christmas in Connecticut.

Author : Applewood Books
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0939510847

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Christmas Memories Book by Applewood Books Pdf

This 20 year diary has fine calligraphy and drawings by Lynn Anderson. Each year features a pen and ink drawing of a different 19th century tradition, accompanied by an explanation of the holiday custom featured. Record visitors, special Christmas cards, family photographs and other memories.

Author : Ed Ifkovic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595330614

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A Connecticut Christmas by Ed Ifkovic Pdf

Christmas in Connecticut! These words immediately evoke warm images of stained-glass churches on snow-blanketed town greens, merry bands of roving carolers, sleigh bells ringing in the icy night, and candlelit fir trees decorated with popcorn and cranberries. Such a romantic world, a glittering Christmas card now vanished into the past, comes to life in this new collection of stories, poems, and sermons--forgotten writings that document Christmas as a much-loved tradition from the late 1700s until World War I. Puritan Connecticut not only ignored the holiday but made it illegal, yet by the 1850s Christmas in Connecticut was not only legal but a festive time of illuminated trees, colorful presents, Santa Claus, lavish family feasts, and quiet homilies about the birth of Christ in a Bethlehem manger. These early writings by Connecticut-born writers, like Harriet Beecher Stowe--mostly sentimental, often maudlin, but oddly quaint and sometimes surprisingly charming--have mostly disappeared into the dustbins of old bookstores. Now this lost, distant world reemerges. Outside it's snowing, the stockings hang on the fireplace mantel, and it's finally Christmas Eve. It's time for a little old-fashioned holiday storytelling.

Author : Bruce David Forbes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520933729

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Christmas by Bruce David Forbes Pdf

Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas—from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. Packed with intriguing stories, based on research into myriad sources, full of insights, the book explores the historical origins of traditions including Santa, the reindeer, gift giving, the Christmas tree, Christmas songs and movies, and more. The book also offers some provocative ideas for reclaiming the joy and meaning of this beloved, yet often frustrating, season amid the pressures of our fast-paced consumer culture. DID YOU KNOW For three centuries Christians did not celebrate Christmas? Puritans in England and New England made Christmas observances illegal? St. Nicholas is an elf in the famous poem "The Night Before Christmas"? President Franklin Roosevelt changed the dateof Thanksgiving in order to lengthen the Christmas shopping season? Coca-Cola helped fashion Santa Claus's look in an advertising campaign?

Author : Carlo DeVito
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604335736

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A Mark Twain Christmas by Carlo DeVito Pdf

Filled with the remarkable wit and humor of America's favorite storyteller, A Mark Twain Christmas gives readers insight into Twain's life through little known stories about how he and his family celebrated this treasured holiday. “If my boot should leave a stain on the marble…leave it there always in memory of my visit…and let it remind you to be a good little girl.” When Market Twain penned this enchanting letter from “Your loving Santa Claus” to his daughter Susy in 1875, a holiday tradition was born inside the Twain family home. And while Twain is celebrated as the sharpest satirist in American letters, he always had a soft spot for Christmas. A Mark Twain Christmas is in turns charming, heartwarming, and heartbreaking, and it ultimately reaffirms the magic of the Christmas spirit. Looking in on three holiday seasons with Twain, we learn more about the man than we ever knew before, and we discover fascinations from gifted elephants to burglar letters to Santa’s bootprints. But most of all, we regain an understanding of what is most important in our own lives, and that is the greatest gift of the Christmas season.

Author : Diane Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Christmas
ISBN : OCLC:1301969001

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A Connecticut Christmas by Diane Smith Pdf

Author : Diane Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : Christmas
ISBN : IND:30000077068561

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Christmas in Connecticut by Diane Smith Pdf

Celebrate the spirit of Christmas in a quintessentially New England state with inspiring, funny, and heart-warming essays accompanied by stunning color photographs.

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780635084545

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Connecticut Classic Christmas Trivia by Carole Marsh Pdf

I spent one winter researching the holiday history, folklore, legend, and more of each and every state,' says Carole marsh. A great coffee-table book or classroom read, this book-in an edition for each U.S. state-shares a wealth of fascinating historical material and trivia about everything from holiday traditions to how we got the Christmas tree, superstitions, and more. From the Yule logs of Maine to snow on the Alamo, you'll love your own state book, but wish you could read them all. Don't forget to send your favorite teacher or grandchild a copy for their state!

Author : Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442434301

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The Magical Christmas Horse by Mary Higgins Clark Pdf

Johnny’s wish had come true. His family would be visiting his grandparents for Christmas. His grandparents lived in an old house in New England where his father had been born. The family together, the smells of the cookies baking, the snowy Christmas tree farm with trees of so many shapes and sizes, and most of all the wooden horse he had told his brother Liam about would make this the best Christmas ever. In his grandparents’ attic Johnny finds many treasures, but the wooden horse he remembered so well is missing. How can Johnny make his brother’s Christmas wish come true? Beloved and internationally bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark’s loving story together with Wendell Minor’s captivating paintings make The Magical Christmas Horse a book that captures the true heart of Christmas and one that families will make part of their Christmas tradition year after year.

Author : Steve Smallman
Publisher : Hometown World
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1728289351

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Santa Is Coming to Wyoming by Steve Smallman Pdf

It's Christmas Eve. Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer, Santa flies over many landmarks in Wyoming! "Ho, ho, ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, Wyoming!"

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9781105116193

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Pdf

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Author : Jasinda Wilder
Publisher : Seth Clarke
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948445719

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Christmas in Connecticut by Jasinda Wilder Pdf

Don't date your students' single fathers. It's an obvious rule. It leads to complications. And it's a rule I've never broken, nor even been tempted to break. I mean, for one thing, I don't date. Not for lack of trying, but I'm just too damaged. My heart is too broken. Riley Kerr, however, isn't my student. She's in second grade, and she's the sweetest, most darling young girl I've ever met. So when my path begins crossing her father's, it's complicated. Rory Kerr is...handsome. Rough-hewn. Solitary. But such a kind and loving father. And not the father of one of my students. He's not really off-limits. Except that of my broken heart. Which he seems to just...effortlessly mend, piece by piece, without even realizing it. The holidays are approaching, and I usually spend them with my dysfunctional family back in Colorado. It's not something I look forward to. But they're all I have, so my Christmases are always spent there, with them. This year, the blooming something between Rory and me has me wondering... maybe this year I'll be spending Christmas in Connecticut.

Author : Jacquin Sanders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015019373169

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A Night Before Christmas by Jacquin Sanders Pdf

The SS Leopoldville was a 11,000-ton passenger line, converted into a troopship for World War II. On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1944, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat, U-486. Over 800 lives were lost, including 763 soldiers. The Leaopoldville sinking is the second greatest loss of life in a single incident after the loss of the American battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) at Pearl Harbor in 1941. At the time of her sinking the troop ship was just 5 miles off the coast of Cherbourg, France. Author Jacquin Sanders tells the shocking truth behind the most tragic and mysterious blunders of World War II. The facts about this sinking were not released until 1961. Here you will learn about the bravery and heroism of a few great men who tried to save their comrades.