Christmas in Minnesota: A celebration in memories, stories, and recipes of seasons past
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ISBN-13: | 9781681341422 |
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Publisher: | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Publication date: | 10/29/2019 |
Pages: | 220 |
Sales rank: | 1,136,087 |
Product dimensions: | 7.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Brian Horrigan, a longtime exhibit curator at the Minnesota Historical Society, lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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The Christmas That Almost Got Stolen By Charles M. Schulz It is probably impossible to discuss holidays and children without talking about school. No matter how much meaning we try to put into holiday ceremonies, children will always look to these times primarily as a reprieve from schoolwork. When I recall my childhood in St. Paul, Minnesota, the memories invariably are memories of school. I was not overfond of the class routines, but I must admit there was always one project that I enjoyed. Just as English class meant the inevitable theme “What I Did on My Summer Vacation,” art class always included a project requiring us to draw our friends engaged in some form of winter activity. Now, in Minnesota this meant that we drew a group of children skating on a pond. This did not mean that any of us had actually experienced such an activity; we were city kids, and very few of us had ever seen a pond that had frozen hard enough to be skated on. But we always tried to depict these scenes, and it was a certainty that every child included a hole in the ice out of which projected a sign that read “Danger.” Most likely we had seen these in comic strips. I noticed that all the kids had trouble drawing those holes in the ice. Somehow they just looked like black spots. My own interest in cartooning led me to discover that by drawing a double line in the ice, one could depict the thickness of that ice. I was very proud when the teacher came around and complimented me on my discovery.