MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009
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THE HILLMAN FAMILY
READ SUE-ON'S ANNUAL FAMILY NEWSLETTER: 2009
Group Photos Through the Years
Merry Christmas From The Hillman Family

Photo Gallery


Soulin ~ Ja-On ~ Angela



Robin ~ Oriyen ~ Jen

Ryan ~ China-Li
SOULIN'S XMAS GALLERY

2009 ~ 11 1/2 Years
The ACC Gala Dinner

Bill and Sue-On with Kenny and Rebecca Choy
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China-Li 
Kensington: Town Home
Kensington City Home
Maple Grove: Country Home
Maple Grove Country Home

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Christmas Lights Around The World


XMAS & WINTER SOLSTICE 2009

Sue-On's Annual Hillman Newsletter 2009

Classic Old Time Radio Christmas Shows
Listen to shows in MP3 ~ See the Photos ~ Read some scripts
Jack Benny ~ Bob Hope ~ Fibber McGee & Molly ~ Gildersleeve
Amos 'n' Andy ~ Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy ~ Duffy's Tavern ~ Tarzan
Stan Freberg ~ Hancock ~ Fred Allen

Nostalgia Comic Book Xmas
1. Santa in Wonderland
2. The Night Before Christmas
3. Bucky's SF Xmas by Wally Wood
4. The Month Before Xmas
5. The Night Before Xmas II

Inspiration Pages
Too Soon Old aka Crabby Old Man
This I Believe
Einstein Letter

Video Song Book
1. Christmas in the Trenches by John McDermott
2. Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt
3. White Christmas by Bing Crosby
4. Blue Christmas by Elvis
5. Silent Night by Elvis

Winter Holiday Season Cartoons
Gallery I | Gallery II

Winter Solstice Celebrations


A Science Fiction Christmas
A Selection of Xmas-Related SF Covers from the Golden Days of Pulp Magazines


A Magic Christmas
A Collation of Magic Lantern Xmas Slides from the Victorian Era

Christmas With Coke
 Celebrate over 70 years of Christmas with Coca-Cola and view The Greatest Gift
Have a Santa and a Smile ~ A Gallery of over 40 Coke Santas by Haddon Sundblom


A Norman Rockwell Christmas Mosaic
A collage of Rockwell's famous Christmas paintings

Christmas On The Web
~ A Brief History of Christmas and Winter Solstice Celebrations ~
~ Christmas Trivia ~ Origins of Santa Claus ~ Origins of Rudolph ~
Classic Christmas Stories ~ Radio and Movie Scripts


A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS I
A Collection of 3-D Stereocards from the past

A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS II
Page 2 of the StereoView Collection

A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS III
Page 3 of the StereoView Collection

A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS IV
Page 4 of the StereoView Collection

101 SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS
A montage of classic Christmas album covers

TALES FROM THE CRYPT
An archive of Sue-On's  Christmas newsletters from years past:


ONLINE XMAS CARDS
Ashland University Xmas Card
Santa's Jigsaw Puzzle
Atticus, our Great White Pyrenees Memorium
Rocking Horse
Snowdog
One from Santa
From the Bears
The Reindeer Chorus
Holiday Cheer from Santa & Reindeer
Night Before Christmas
Santa Flies
The Emissary (click on the lights to turn pages)
Misheard Lyrics to Christmas Songs

Yes, Virginia . . .

Dear Editor, 
I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says "If you see it in The Sun it's so."
Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?

         Virginia O'Hanlon
         115 West Ninety-fifth St.

VIRGINIA, Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, not even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

   -- Editorial page of the New York Sun, September 21, 1897


Remember when we used to let our imaginations paint the pictures...
A nostalgic look back at the Christmas of our youth with the:
AMOS 'n' ANDY CHRISTMAS SHOW ON RADIO


Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll 
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Listen

Patty Marie Ellis (Arbadella) and Alvin Childress (Amos) 
recreated "The Lord's Prayer" on television in 1951. 
Amos' recitation of "The Lord's Prayer" became an American institution,
introduced in 1940 and broadcast annually on radio through 1954.
Hear the entire show HERE


LISTEN TO ALL OUR CLASSIC RADIO XMAS SHOWS


READ RADIO & MOVIE XMAS SCRIPTS

Columbia Workshop: The Plot to Overthrow Christmas ~ Dec. 25, 1938
Fibber McGee and Molly: Christmas Show ~ December 18, 1945
The Great Gildersleeve: Christmas Show ~ December 19, 1943
Archie Andrews: Christmas Shopping ~ December 13, 1947
It's A Wonderful Life Script
The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Santa_Claus by L. Frank Baum
Amos 'n' Andy Xmas Show

For more go to our
Old Time Radio Page

Read Sue-On's Annual Xmas Newsletters


Star Trails Above Mauna Kea (NASA) click

THE HILLMAN CHRISTMAS AND WINTER SOLSTICE SITES

Christmas Greetings 
from the Hillman Family
Christmas On The Web
Histories ~ Trivia ~ Scripts
Archive of Annual Newsletters
 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09
A Coca Cola Christmas
Over 40 Sundblom Santas | Gallery
 Inspiration Pages
VICTORIAN XMAS 3-D Stereocards
I | II | III | IV
.Norman Rockwell
Christmas Mosaic
101 SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS
A montage of Christmas album covers
Christmas in the Good Old Days
by David Adams
Classic Old Time Radio 
Christmas Shows
A Science Fiction Xmas
Nostalgia Xmas Comics
Magic Lantern Christmas Slides 
from the Victorian Era
Hillman Family Newsletter
Xmas 2009
WORD
Xmas Song Book
Favourite Xmas Videos


Canada's  Fallen in Afghanistan
as of December 2008

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