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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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| Kathy from Charlotte, NC USA says: | See others from this town | 11-27-2010 |
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| On Christmas Eve, mama would cook supper and we would wait on Daddy to get home from work. Once he got home, he would light candles for us and make us "sticks" so that we could roast marshmellows. Then we got to open presents from mama and daddy. My sister & I shared a bedroom so after we opened our... MORE |
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| Debi from Pahrump, NV USA says: | See others from this town | 11-27-2010 |
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| This is the first small town I've lived in, having moved from the greater Los Angeles area a handful of years ago. I miss having large get-togethers with my extended family. However, now my husband and my son and I have memorable but quiet holiday dinners, and the meanings of all the holidays still ... MORE |
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| Ginnie from Holton, KS USA says: | See others from this town | 11-27-2010 |
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| Since Christmas 1979 this has been home, raising our children, snuggling in bed together, Scandinavian Kringler, the dogs eating the "hidden" Christmas chocolate, making doll houses and saving the turkey wishbone for the children to break with their grandparents. All the warm fuzzies of the seaon.
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| Helen from Austin, TX USA says: | See others from this town | 11-27-2010 |
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| Unlike today, where there are multitudes of lights on every other house in the neighborhood, when I was a young girl in rural Texas, we would look forward to going to town to drive around to see everyone's tree lights. We got excited if someone had their lighted tree in their front window for all to... MORE |
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| Carol from Ainsworth, IA USA says: | See others from this town | 11-27-2010 |
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| Christmas 2008 was a very special time for my family. We were all together at my parents' home, laughing and talking in the living room with a beautiful tree twinkling away. We had a very special gift to be thankful for on this Christmas Day. My Dad had made it through a very long cancer treatment a... MORE |
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| Janet from West Palm Beach, FL USA says: | See others from this town | 11-26-2010 |
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| I still remember when I was about 3 or 4 years old and I opened ALL the wrapped presents under the tree. I was the only child at the time, so of course all the presents were mine! It wasn't even Christmas yet...early in the morning...when my parents found me in the midst of opened boxes, tissue and ... MORE |
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| Weldon from Electra, TX USA says: | See others from this town | 11-26-2010 |
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| I honestly never thought I would say this, but growing up in a town of 2500 people definitely had advantages that outweighed the disadvantages. I remember, as a junior high kid one Christmas season, a group of us were over at one house and just decided to go caroling...no planning or predetermined p... MORE |
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| karen from Fairfield, CA USA says: | See others from this town | 11-26-2010 |
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| A long time ago, at the age of 11, it was on Christmas eve, that my brother, one year older, was dying . Not easy, but for me, it was like he was alive because the last words that I recall him ever saying to me , was on that night, and those words were " I love my sister. You makeme smile when I hur... MORE |
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| Annie from San Francisco, CA USA says: | See others from this town | 11-09-2010 |
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| San Francisco, even back in the 50s, is hardly a small town, but the memories I have of Christmas are cozy and warm nonetheless. My paternal grandparents would pick myself and my brother and sister up and take us to dinner at their house. On the way home my grandfather would tease us with his sighti... MORE |
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| Jim from Wichita Falls, TX USA says: | See others from this town | 11-09-2010 |
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| Ripping paper on Christmas Eve with the entire extended family at Grandma's House, and Granddad "Santa" searching beneath the tree for that one carefully wrapped bottle with his name on it. Going home bone tired, not able to sleep and the agony of picking just one toy to take back to Grandma's for C... MORE |
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| Jacqueline from Augusta, KY USA says: | See others from this town | 10-05-2010 |
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| I grew up in a small town located on the Ohio River. Christmas to us, Christmas pageants at our local churches, tree lighting on Main Street, looking at the retro christmas trees in the shop windows was some of the things that come to mind. Now as a "grown up" I see just want a wonderful place I was... MORE |
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| Kimberly from Salisbury, NC USA says: | See others from this town | 08-02-2010 |
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| My father-in-law grew up poor in semi rural North Carolina. Spending $5 in the 60's for a polaroid at the mall would be multiplied by five for his five sons. That was a Christmas money they could ill afford to throw away. When he found out it had gone up to $10 for pictures with The Man in the Red S... MORE |
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| Kimberly from Salisbury, NC USA says: | See others from this town | 08-02-2010 |
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| My father-in-law grew up poor in semi rural North Carolina. Spending $5 in the 60's for a polaroid at the mall would be multiplied by five for his five sons. That was a Christmas money they could ill afford to throw away. When he found out it had gone up to $10 for pictures with The Man in the Red S... MORE |
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| Kasey from Cerritos, CA USA says: | See others from this town | 01-03-2010 |
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| When I was around 11 years old we lived in a small costal town north of Los Angeles, CA. My mother worked for a doctor in town and I what remember the most is when mom would take me to the doctor's. There was an old-fashioned town square with shops and offices around the square. Mom would park the c... MORE |
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| Ann from Mt. Vernon, IL USA says: | See others from this town | 12-30-2009 |
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| We lived about 5 mi. outside of town. I remember one Christmas Eve when I must have been about 5 yrs. old there was a knock at the door and it was Santa Claus. After about a 15 minute visit he handed me a sack of hard candy and said "Now eat this and go to bed!". The instant he was out the door I to... MORE |
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| Gloria from Memphis, TN USA says: | See others from this town | 12-25-2009 |
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| I remember driving around the city looking at Christmas lights. My Dad always knew where the best houses were! |
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| Maria from Juana Diaz, PRI says: | See others from this town | 12-25-2009 |
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| I grew up in a town that sets the bar for the definition of small town. It had the grand total of no more than 2000 people when I was growing up. The town is called Juana Diaz, in Puerto Rico. We don't have seasons changing or the possibility of a white Christmas there, but we do have a lot of Chris... MORE |
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| Rick from Lombard, IL USA says: | See others from this town | 12-24-2009 |
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| My most memorable Christmas was when I was about 8 years old. My family and I were at my great aunt’s house for the traditional Christmas celebration. The night was cold and it was snowing pretty hard. The living room was filled with 3 generations of family and I remember staring out the front windo... MORE |
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| Sharon from San Luis, CO USA says: | See others from this town | 12-23-2009 |
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| I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains. Christmas was an amazing, almost magical time. As kids we thought we were rich! We had no idea just how hard our parents struggled, as did just about everyone in the Appalachians. The week before Christmas, every year, we would sit down as a family and decided... MORE |
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| Dorothy from Calais, VT USA says: | See others from this town | 12-22-2009 |
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| Selecting that special balsam Christmas tree from a lot was a major part of my Christmas growing up in the 40's and 50's in a small Massachusetts town.
And for some reason my husband and I continued to buy trees from a lot even though we lived on 50 acres in Vermont - until the Christmas my husband... MORE |
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