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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1967
Page
1
The piece surveys how Christmas is pictured as a wintry scene in songs paintings and stories, noting how climates from Bethlehem to Hawaii to Australia shape celebratory imagery. It cites Holland 16th and 17th century landscape painting as a tradition focused on winter scenes.
Llano County marks Christmas Day on Monday December 25 with business closures. The article reflects on Hendrick Avercamp a leading painter of winter landscapes and notes his baptism in Amsterdam in 1585 and burial in Kampen in 1634. It traces Avercamp’s style to Flemish and Bruegel influences and mentions Bruegel’s guild master status in 1551 and travels to France and Italy.
HLTA directors reviewed plans to boost winter tourism in the Highland Lakes area. A Jan 1921 Central Texas Boat and Travel Show in Austin was near sold out, with calls for more resorts to take booths. Volunteers were sought to staff four boat shows in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Houston.
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