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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 . . .
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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
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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 knowledgeYes, 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
 
Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll . |
Listen |
Patty Marie Ellis (Arbadella) and Alvin Childress (Amos) recreated "The Lord's Prayer" on television in 1951. |
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
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