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Minnesota Christmas Anthology
Octavo, Minnesota, Illustrated Christmas, Text Figures
- GenresChristmas
112 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1988
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November 24, 2022
5 stars
I loved this book from the dreamy, evocative cover of a snow-covered village to the last page, a letter from the editor of the St. Cloud Journal, December 24, 1868, encouraging readers to "make at least one home brighter and one heart thankful by your deeds outside the circle of friends and kindred."
Published in 1988, the book is a collection of reminiscences of Christmas past in Minnesota, many of them from the 1800s and early 1900s. The descriptions of Christmas in sod-covered cottages on snow-swept prairies to community gatherings in one-room school houses are filled with the warmth and joy that these communities felt.
Besides the beautiful cover, a 1919 painting by Samuel Chatwood Burton that captivated me, the wonderful black and white drawings throughout the book were often older ones such as an illustration of Santa Claus done in 1890 by prominent illustrator and editorial cartoonist, Thomas Nast.
There are excerpts from authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Garrison Keeler, poetry, a few crafts and recipes, descriptions of nature going back to the 1600s, newspaper columns and touching reminiscences of childhood by local citizens as well as well-known columnists.
I am now a weather sissy and would never make it through a Minnesota winter, but this book brought back the enchantment of my own childhood Christmases in Colorado surrounded by the winter wonderland of the Rocky Mountains.
I loved this book from the dreamy, evocative cover of a snow-covered village to the last page, a letter from the editor of the St. Cloud Journal, December 24, 1868, encouraging readers to "make at least one home brighter and one heart thankful by your deeds outside the circle of friends and kindred."
Published in 1988, the book is a collection of reminiscences of Christmas past in Minnesota, many of them from the 1800s and early 1900s. The descriptions of Christmas in sod-covered cottages on snow-swept prairies to community gatherings in one-room school houses are filled with the warmth and joy that these communities felt.
Besides the beautiful cover, a 1919 painting by Samuel Chatwood Burton that captivated me, the wonderful black and white drawings throughout the book were often older ones such as an illustration of Santa Claus done in 1890 by prominent illustrator and editorial cartoonist, Thomas Nast.
There are excerpts from authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Garrison Keeler, poetry, a few crafts and recipes, descriptions of nature going back to the 1600s, newspaper columns and touching reminiscences of childhood by local citizens as well as well-known columnists.
I am now a weather sissy and would never make it through a Minnesota winter, but this book brought back the enchantment of my own childhood Christmases in Colorado surrounded by the winter wonderland of the Rocky Mountains.
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