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Dateline: Xmas Day 2011: Sue-On has done it again.
. . another "guitar under the tree" surprise.
After taking photos of it I noticed that there
is a jumble of music junk in the background
that might be of passing interest to musicians.
I've posted a photo of the new member of our guitar family at:
http://www.hillmanweb.com/guitars/g30.html
Accompanying the photo is a list of almost 40
items in the background that some of you might be able to recognize : )
Let me know how you make out if you decide to
do a "Find Elmo" type search.
Have
yourself a
BEATLES
CHRISTMAS
All the Beatles
greetings from 1963-1969
Merry
Xmas to all our
John
Carter of Mars SF and ERBzine Readers
A New Feature Comic
in our
Christmas
Comics Section
Harvey Kurtzman's
LITTLE
ANNIE FANNY'S CHRISTMAS
Classic
Old Time Radio Christmas Shows
More Shows Added This Year
Burns and Allen ~ Lux: It's A Wonderful Life ~ Jack Benny '44 ~ Gildersleeve
'46
Listen
to shows in MP3 ~ See the Photos ~ Read some scripts
Jack
Benny ~ Bob Hope ~ Fibber McGee & Molly ~ Gildersleeve
Amos
'n' Andy ~ Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy ~ Duffy's Tavern ~ Tarzan
Stan
Freberg ~ Hancock ~ Fred Allen
Nostalgia
Comic Book Xmas
1. Santa
in Wonderland | 2. Night Before Christmas | 3. Bucky's SF Xmas by Wally
Wood
4. Month
Before Xmas | 5. Night Before Xmas II by Will Elder | 6. Night Before Xmas
by Walt Kelly
7. Return
to Dickens' A Christmas Carol
VICTORIAN
CHRISTMAS STEREOVIEWS IN 3D
I
| II | III
| IV | V
| VI
OLD
FASHIONED VICTORIAN XMAS CARDS
Box
1 | Box 2
| Box 3
Winter
Holiday Season Cartoons
Folio
1 | Folio
II | Folio
III
Christmas Greetings
from our Edgar Rice Burroughs Family of Websites
www.erbzine.com/xmas
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Inspiration
Pages
Too
Soon Old aka Crabby Old Man | This I Believe | Einstein Letter
Video
Song Book
1. Christmas
in the Trenches by John McDermott | 2. Santa Baby by Eartha
Kitt
3. White
Christmas by Bing Crosby | 4. Blue Christmas by Elvis | 5. Silent
Night by Elvis
A
Science Fiction Christmas
A Selection
of Xmas-Related SF Covers from the Golden Days of Pulp Magazines
A
Magic Christmas
A Collation
of Magic Lantern Xmas Slides from the Victorian Era
Christmas
With Coke
Celebrate
over 70 years of Christmas with Coca-Cola and view The
Greatest Gift
Have
a Santa and a Smile ~ A Gallery of over 40 Coke Santas by Haddon Sundblom
A
Norman Rockwell Christmas Mosaic
A collage
of Rockwell's famous Christmas paintings
Christmas
On The Web
~ A
Brief History of Christmas and Winter Solstice Celebrations ~
~ Christmas
Trivia ~ Origins of Santa Claus ~ Origins of Rudolph ~
Classic
Christmas Stories ~ Radio and Movie Scripts
101
SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS
A montage
of classic Christmas album covers
TALES
FROM THE CRYPT
An archive
of Sue-On's Christmas newsletters from years past:
ONLINE XMAS CARDS
Merry
Christmas . . . er. . . Happy Holidays . . . er. . . Warm Wishes?
Alternate
Xmas
Snowman
A
Different Xmas Poem: TEXT and MUSIC | NARRATION
Ashland
University Xmas Card
Santa's
Jigsaw Puzzle
Atticus,
our Great White Pyrenees Memorium
Rocking
Horse
Snowdog
One
from Santa
From
the Bears
The
Reindeer Chorus
Holiday
Cheer from Santa & Reindeer
Night Before
Christmas
Santa
Flies
The Emissary
(click
on the lights to turn pages)
Misheard
Lyrics to Christmas Songs
Yes, Virginia . . .
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Dear
Editor,
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says "If you see it in The Sun it's so." Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
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VIRGINIA, Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence of grasping the whole of truth and knowledgeYes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, not even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
-- Editorial page of the New York Sun, September 21, 1897
 
Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll . |
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