IT SEEMS THERE IS NEVER TIME, these days, to think and read and listen and ponder, and to write this column, which was once the treat I gave myself for getting through each week. I have promised to take a few days this Christmas season to do just that.
Christmas came early, though, with the arrival of this story, published in The Rural Blog, which—along with the Daily Yonder—is on my must-read list of reporting on rural America.
Reprinted from December 22, 1955
Christmas falls on Sunday this year, and local churches will be holding regular Christmas morning services as well as Christmas Eve programs. This is a good time to remember that Christmas is, first of all, a holy day. Go to the church of your choice Sunday morning, and celebrate Christmas in its true spirit.
Skewed View
Madame Editor,
Diana Gordon's article this week (Two Birds with One Stone) about the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act seems a great opportunity for our country's gradual re-centering of attention to the common good. With its designation of Certified Agricultural Worker status, we'll even have an acronym (CAW) to crow about!
Mischievously,
ON BEHALF OF THE MEMBERS of American Legion Post 56 and all other veterans who live in and around Canadian, I want to thank the staff and students of Baker Elementary School and Canadian Elementary School for planning and hosting the annual Veterans Day ceremonies.
AS IN MOST WARS, the men of the Civil War found it excruciatingly difficult to be away from loved ones at holiday time. Thanksgiving was no exception.
The holiday itself has its roots in the Civil War. The first official proclamation declaring Thanksgiving as a national day of remembrance was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, partly in honor of Northern successes in the war that year. Lincoln designated the last Thursday in November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise.”
Turnout drops in recent election
