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U.S. first lady Jill Biden receives the White House Christmas tree from Pennsylvania ?? pic.twitter.com/5rdVvW238j
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 22, 2022
New Fox News salvo in the War on Christmas is that Joe Biden is too pro-Christmas. pic.twitter.com/EkbTzuFzqQ
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) November 22, 2022
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I was 17 and decided with some friends to hold an Easter egg hunt geared to the handful of other teens we hung out with. It was weirdly wholesome of us considering we mostly drank Mad Dog and loitered at Waffle House.
— ?? David Griner ?? (@griner) April 15, 2022
Our commitment level to the egg making was…minimal. We dyed 2 dozen eggs, figuring that’d be plenty for the handful of our friends who showed up the Saturday before Easter.
But we took the hiding VERY seriously. We arrived at Monte Sano park in Huntsville, Alabama, around 8 am and got started.
Monte Sano is a mountaintop park filled with boulders and cliffs and crags, and we scaled around hiding eggs in the hardest-to-reach spots like we were paranoia-deranged lizard people trying to hide our young from eagles.
We climb down, filthy and cracking up at the idea of our friends trying to find these impossibly tucked-away hardboiled death trinkets.
We walk back up to the entry area of the park to find our friends, but it’s hard to spot them.
Because it’s so crowded.
There are 100 families. Little kids with baskets everywhere. Someone asks if we know where the egg hunt is. Someone else asks. They keep asking. “Who’s running this Easter egg hunt?”
It’s a good question.
Something dawns on me, so I ask:
“Where did you all hear about an Easter egg hunt here?”
“The news.”
Me: “ABC? Channel 31?”
“Yes!”
Us, collectively: “Fuck.”
(Rewind 24 hours)
The day before, we tell our friends about our dumb egg hunt idea. One older friend says he can’t make it because he’ll be working late. At the TV station. WAAY 31.
That night, the weather man asks if he has Easter plans. “Just going to an egg hunt at Monte Sano in the morning.”
The weather man, understandably, makes a logical assumption. He announces live on TV that the Saturday weather will be great.
For the egg hunt. At Monte Sano…
Read the rest of the story here.
(I for one think the last line should be a rotating header here!)
My wife and I have a regular holiday season trip to New York City, and we go by Rockefeller Center regularly. I thought it would be fun to share photos of the Rockefeller Center trees from over the years.
A funny thing: They’re all from the north side of the plaza. I don’t know why.
These are all in chronological order. This is the first one I have.
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A few Christmas memories. Thanks to Steve from Mendocino for editing.
My son lived outside the US for several years after college, so to have him come home for Christmas, on a snowy train no less, was a great occasion.
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Family Christmas Dinner in the mid-1950s
Get your hands off my sister bubba. (editor’s note: classic raven!)
Even the 7th Infantry DIvision in 1967 was part of the “War on Christmas.
Season Greetings indeed!
Christmas Tree in Southeast Asia
Daniel Boone and the pups.
Wonderful flashes from the past from ET and AliceBlue
Wonderful flash from the past, in 1970-something, from ET:
It was the year of the stove. Was it a portent of the future? No. I don’t so much remember it but remember that I loved it.
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For the next couple of weeks, we are having Ghosts of Holidays Past instead of the usual On the Road After Dark.
So send in your pictures! Either as a full set for a post, or just send one or two that will go into a group post. Be sure to include some text so we know what we’re looking at. If you want to send photos but not have them identified as yours, let me know that, too.
We haven’t declared war on Christmas, but we did switch to Holidays so all celebrations are welcome!
My father was a professional photographer, so there are lots of pictures of the family Christmases, as well as home movies etc. It’s hard to pick just a few, and I also don’t want to embarrass myself or my siblings, so here some that I chose with that parameter in mind. Be forewarned, I’m officially old, and grew up in the middle of the country, so some of these items and customs might be novel for some of you youngsters! But I’m still impressed by Kodachrome; some of these slides are over 60 years old, and they look great, color and tone-wise!
One of the family traditions when I was young was a Christmas Day trip to my aunts house in the tiny town of Montezuma KS, about a half hour away. Here we would gather with my dad’s parents and some of his siblings (most of whom were still in that part of KS), have Christmas dinner, wash a lot of dishes, and open presents. We took turns opening one present at a time, starting with the youngest and proceeding to the oldest, so my grandfather was always the last to get to open his first present. But he always had more than anybody, so he could keep opening presents long after the kids had completed theirs. Here’s a pic of my sister “helping” my grandmother open a present; other relatives can be seen in the background.
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