Christmas memories from Mississippi:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson University Press of Mississippi ©2010
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Item Description:Introduction; Christmas Memories; A Plain White Sock; "We Close at Dusk"; A Talk with Oprah Winfrey; My Christmas Carol; A Father and a Bicycle; My Mother Was Santa Claus but My Father Was an Indian; Snow in Saigon; Ded Moroz; Dusty; Herman's Present; Mississippi Ornament; Christmas Encounter; I Heard the Angels Sing; Christmas Gift; Angels Brought the Message; The Coon Hunt; What Counts; The Greatest Christmas Gift; Plenty; The Soloist; Christmas Recalled and Lessons Learned; A "Global Soul" Reflects on Christmas; The Poor Children's Christmas Party; Ode to the Fruitcake
This beautiful book of thirty-eight essays, illustrated by Mississippi's premier watercolorist Wyatt Waters, will ring true with treasured recollections of Christmases past. Remember the Christmas it snowed on the Mississippi Coast? Glen Allison recalls that miracle. Richard Ford and Waters tell exactly what they felt when they first laid eyes on a bicycle left under the tree by Santa Claus. These Mississippians celebrate Christmas pageants, the decorating, the family dinners--even as they recognize war and loss as part of our lives and sometimes part of our holidays. Christmas Memories from M.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 233 pages)
ISBN:9781604737813
1604737816
9781604737554
1604737557

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