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Newspaper
Shepherd Argus
Location
Shepherd, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1963
Page
7
Nostalgia for an old fashioned Christmas pervades public life and households. The essay recalls Benjamin Harrison in 1891 proposing a good old fashioned Christmas and notes traditions persist while new ones grow. It imagines future calls to return to former customs and urges an old fashioned Christmas today.
Pilgrims from many faiths travel to Bethlehem now in Jordan to visit the Church of the Nativity above the Grotto of the Nativity where Christ was born. The manger rests in a rock cave near the hill town center. Christmas is observed three times at Bethlehem with gates opened between Jerusalem sectors to admit pilgrims.
In 1535 at a St Charles river fort near Quebec Jacques Cartier and 110 settlers faced cold hunger and fear from unfriendly Indians. They still kept Christmas with a log cabin mass, a table altar, evergreen decor, carols, and a feast using scarce food. Organ broke Silent Night later arrived in 1818 Austria with Mohr and Gruber.
A performer saddened by the lack of Christmas music sings Silent Night accompanied by a guitar, expressing quiet reverence for the season.
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