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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1986
Page
3
A farmer and lawyer recounts rushing home on Christmas Eve to tend a farrowing hog barn. While waiting for eight piglets in a gilt’s late labor, he reflects on Christmas’s simple gifts, faith, and family, realizing Bethlehem’s path lies within each of us. He ends grateful for the pigs and the season.
Eau Claire readers of The Country Today fill a special Christmas issue with 78 reader submissions from five states. Virginia James of Webster wins first prize for The Blue Velvet Dress with Marianne Severson of West Allis second and Alan Harvey of DeForest third.
This reflective piece recalls Christmas memories lived at home with family. The narrator, now older, recalls a toast by their oldest son and vivid scenes of past Christmases, from the cold furnace to the living room shadowed by anticipation. It emphasizes loving, homebound traditions and enduring family ties across generations.
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