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Use the form and share YOUR story! Do you have fond holiday memories? Do you love your home town, current town, childhood village, or neighborhood? Is there a tradition you enjoy? We all have a holiday story to tell. Regardless of your age, your religion, or your location, please take a moment to tell us about those special times and places in your life and help us expand the Christmas in a Small Town community.
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| Nancy from Oklahoma City, OK USA says: | See others from this town | 12-15-2009 |
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| Christmas Eve Gift!
One of my most vivid memories of childhood is of my Grandmother Peters and I trying to fall asleep on Christmas Eve. She would always come a few days before Christmas. The house would smell like coffee every morning she was there. When she arrived, all four children, especially ... MORE |
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| Anne from Boston, MA USA says: | See others from this town | 12-14-2009 |
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| Filenes, Jordan Marsh, Gilchrists and other huge in town department stores dressed their big glass windows with Christmas scenes from Toyland, Christmas pagents, villages, family scenes, skaters on the pond, decorating the tree,etc. Most of the figures moved in some way. Just absolutely fascinating.... MORE |
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| Mary from Cambridge, WI USA says: | See others from this town | 12-14-2009 |
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| I have two faborite childhood memories. For several years, a large group of family members went Christmas tree cutting near the cranberry marshes in Wisconsin Rapids. We would all take our ice skates, thermos bottles of hot chocolate and homemade Christmas cookies and make a day of it. My Uncle Bob ... MORE |
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| KathiD from Atascadero, CA USA says: | See others from this town | 12-13-2009 |
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| I was one day old on my very first Christmas. Mom and I were treated like royalty (says Mom) by the lovely nuns at the hospital, who even decorated the rooms and made a Yule Log. Dad was home with four children ages 4-11, attempting to make Christmas jolly for all. We stayed in the hospital 5 days (... MORE |
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| Juanita from Flint, MI USA says: | See others from this town | 12-12-2009 |
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| In Flint, Mich an old tradition is Old Newsboys, sponsored by the newspaper Flint Journal. Its been around for at least 50 years that I am aware of. Families that needed help woul sumit their names for a gift. usually mittens, gloves, socks, a doll or small toy. This would be waited for by us, a fam... MORE |
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| Marty from Bath, OH USA says: | See others from this town | 12-12-2009 |
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| Our first Christmas while stationed in Gelnhausen, Germany in 1968 with our 2 eldest sons who were just 3 yrs and 4 months old is a memory we often reell at Christmas time.
My husband had just returned from field exercises and was so happy to be in a warm home again!
We put up our little "Charlie... MORE |
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| Karen from Spooner, NV USA says: | See others from this town | 12-12-2009 |
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| Winters in Northern Wisconsin are cold and back in the day there was a lot more snow in winter....No matter how cold it was we played outside every chance we got. We bundled up warmly and stayed out until it got dark or Mom called us for dinner. One winter my big brother and sister decided to build ... MORE |
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| Ron from Goffstown, NH USA says: | See others from this town | 12-11-2009 |
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| I have wonderful Christmas memories and not just from childhood or related to my small town. One of the best is from 1985, when I was a few years out of college and still in graduate school. As I passed out presents on Christmas morning (that has been my job since I was about 12), my father told me ... MORE |
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| Pati from Columbus, OH USA says: | See others from this town | 12-10-2009 |
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| My grandparents were a big factor in my life. They helped Mom out because she was a single Mom. So Grandma would pick us up from school while Mom was at work. It was when I was in either Kindergarten or 1st grade when one of the older kids told me there wasn't a Santa Clause. I came out crying. Gran... MORE |
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| Pati from Columbus, OH USA says: | See others from this town | 12-09-2009 |
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| My grandma would make a winter town under the Christmas Tree. It would be on the screened in porch that had a dutch door. We wouldn't be allowed on the porch until Christmas morning. She would open the top part of that dutch door that last week so we could peek over the bottom half to see if there w... MORE |
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| Robbi Joy from Third Lake, IL USA says: | See others from this town | 12-09-2009 |
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| We bought our artificial tree for $29 20 years ago. Every year, Samantha tries to talk us into getting a new bigger tree. And every year Josh says he likes the old tree, it's sorta like Charlie Brown's. I don't think it's THAT bad. But it's our tacky Christmas tree and I like it, so we keep it. |
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| lisa from minden, NE USA says: | See others from this town | 12-08-2009 |
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| I still dream about raising my own children in Minden... |
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| Mark from Johnson City, TN USA says: | See others from this town | 12-07-2009 |
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| Christmas Eve was a special time at our house for it was when we had our Birthday Party for Jesus. My mother spent all day in the kitchen, stirring up delicious things for us to eat. Dad popped in and out of the house, fetching fresh cut logs for the fireplace. And my brother and I fretted over what... MORE |
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| Lindsey from Alexandria, VA USA says: | See others from this town | 12-05-2009 |
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| Christmas was magical growing up in my lovelly town and in my family. Most years my mother would have some sort of holiday mishap in spite of her valiant efforts to make Christmas special for her children. One year the family cat got in the just decorated tree and made it to the top where tree, cat ... MORE |
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| Ramona from Rossiter, PA USA says: | See others from this town | 12-04-2009 |
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| my best christmas memory is my son's first christmas- they year the christmas tree was put outside on the front porch in front of the window because although he was only about 5 1/2 months old he had started walking and tried to pull over the christmas tree that yr when i first put it up. he's been ... MORE |
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| Mary Kay from St Paul, MN USA says: | See others from this town | 12-03-2009 |
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| I remember one Christmas growing up that was my favorite! I was ~ 7 years old, and my little brothers were 6 and 3. My parents pulled the family together during the autumn months and told us that it would be a "special" Christmas and each of us would be working with one of my parents and making each... MORE |
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| Kathlene from Mina, NV USA says: | See others from this town | 12-02-2009 |
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| My favorite memories include the Christmas programs presented by the school children in the gymnasium. Two teachers and eight grades. AND Santa Claus. |
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| EILEEN from Mohicanville, OH USA says: | See others from this town | 12-01-2009 |
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| Christmas morning awakened us with snow falling and covering the ground quickly near our small town in central Ohio. Mother was in the kitchen preparing dinner from freshly hunted pheasant and fixing us breakfast to eat before my brother and I opened our few gifts of clothing, some store bought and ... MORE |
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| Chris from Chambersburg, PA USA says: | See others from this town | 12-01-2009 |
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| In my smallish hometown, a county seat in central Pennsylvania, my mother and her Children's Aid Society friends worked like demons to make and sell Christmas wreaths, using wax fruit, smelly glues, glitter and gold leaf spray paint. Very toxic, no doubt, but really pretty. Next, Mom made Christstol... MORE |
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| arlene from DeMotte, IN USA says: | See others from this town | 11-30-2009 |
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| When we were kids, we lived with my mom and grandparents. All the adults worked and mom and granny worked different shifts so we always had an adult home. Well, grandpa was a long distance truck driver and we never knew when he would be home. Just before Thanksgiving he would tell us that he would n... MORE |
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