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Homestead Padre and Grant Payne join me and we share our Christmas memories and traditions.
Our memories are at times bittersweet.
Christmas is a wonderful time of the year. For Homestead Padre and his family, their holiday season starts when eggnog becomes available in the store. They put their tree up in October. They also celebrate Hannukah.
In Lawrence in NE Kansas, they light the Christmas lights on the evening of Black Friday. The fire department mock rescues Santa from the roof of the department store on Mass Street. (there is so much hidden meaning in that, but that is for another time).
The Christmas lights are one of my favorite traditions. But they leave them up until Valentine’s Day.
We talk about the Foxfire Christmas book. The Foxfire books are a series of books that capture the oral history of the Appa ...
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