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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1966
Page
22
Christmas preparations span weeks with three families traveling to Houston by wagon to stock up on fruit cake ingredients and provisions. The dairy shed stores pies and cakes for Christmas eve dinners while three sisters rotate hosting Christmas New Year and midweek feasts.
A memoir fragment recounts Christmas traditions in a Texas family. Homemade candy, fruit and a fresh coconut were common treats. Three former slave women, Aunt Mary Aunt Martha and Aunt Mollie, helped the families and spent Christmas Eve nights nearby. The storyteller recalls sleigh bells and the fear of Santa, then notes lineage linking Isaac Foster and Randolph Foster to Richmond and Edwin Waller, a signer of Texas Independence.
A speaker jokes that courage shows when a husband buys a new car without wife input on upholstery color. He quips the daily world troubles begin with the first half hour of each morning, highlighting domestic friction and humor.
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