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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1969
Page
2
Harold Leigh Mrs. John S. Basye James Johnson Billy Joe Williams Richard Wych appear in a community memorial roster honoring local residents. The event recognizes individuals for service and remembrance in a public notice from the city archives.
Local families welcome relatives and friends visiting during the holidays. Multiple households in Carrollton White River Rising Star and nearby communities host relatives from Texarkana Shreveport Cuero and Grapeland while service members stationed at Fort Polk Kassel and San Diego return home for celebrations.
The Texas State Historical Association will produce a 50 minute color film about the Big Thicket in southeast Texas. A $37 380 Moody Foundation grant funds the project with Jim Seymour Associates directing. Filming begins next spring as the Thicket comes alive covering about 300000 acres across Hardin Liberty Polk Tyler and Jasper counties. The film highlights ecology history and scenery to educate Texans about this rare wilderness and its preservation.
In 1644 Parliament banned Christmas as a feast day. Carols languished long after. A 1719 carol by Dr Isaac Watts, Joy to the World, helped revive the tradition and forego the modern Christmas carol era.
Mrs. D. V. Swarthout attended a service followed by visits with Mrs. Don McGowan in Silsbee. Mrs. McGowan and her daughter also joined the gathering at the McGowan home.
The Texas State Historical Association will distribute the film at no cost to schools libraries churches civic youth conservation travel groups and other educational entities and will also send it to TV stations across the Southwest for broad public access.
Hello world for Mr and Mrs William Del bert Hawn of Route 2 Silsbee welcomed a boy at St Elizabeth Hospital on Monday. Obert Blaisdell and wife of Lufkin former Silsbee residents announce son Barry Glenn born December 17. Grandparents Donald Webb Silsbee Herman Blaisdell Lumberton. Michael Dean born December 19 in Silsbee Doctors Hospital to Arthur Dean Willis Silsbee. Deborah Sue born December 19 to George EF Wells Sr. of Bunn in Silsbee Doctors Hospital. Rev and Mrs John Robert
The Silsbee area welcomed five newborn daughters this December. Paula Kaye was born December 17 at Silsbee Doctors Hospital to the coach of Silsbee. Diana Darnell arrived December 18 at Silsbee Doctors Hospital to Mr and Mrs Daniel John Gaspard. Amanda Lee joined December 14 at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Shirley to Mr and Mrs Robert Earl Bohier. Renee was born December 14 at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Beaumont to Mr and Mrs Joseph Orland Jr. Keven Eric arrived December 17 at Hardin Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Delton Clyde Dehart.
The article traces Christmas music's evolution from post Reformation Europe through the 17th and 18th centuries. It notes Italy popularized the Christmas concerto led by Corelli's famous work, Puritan England favored oratorios for moral virtue, and Handel's Messiah gained esteem for pious sentiment though not tied to the Nativity until roughly 1900 when it increasingly played at Christmas.
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