Thanks Tim for the beautiful cards - I wish my family had saved more -
my great grandmother liked to throw things away when new products were
available, that way she could have the new things. My mother removed
g.gramma's glass rolling pin from the garbage and used it for many
years, it is now mine and one day will be my daughters.
Susan Ashworth Carpenter
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From: carpenter-bounces(a)rootsweb.com
[mailto:carpenter-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Tim Stowell
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 8:32 PM
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CARPENTER] Tis the season
Tis the season to be with family, celebrate or create traditions unique
to
your family.
For those of you who've added members to your family this year by birth,
marriage or discovery - congratulations.
For those of you who've lost members for whatever reason, my
condolences.
Some traditions pass as do the generations, while others are continued
or
created.
For my family I remember my father speaking of his childhood in central
New York in the 1930s, where on Christmas Eve his father would go out,
find, cut down, a tree for Christmas. Brought back home it was
decorated
with among other things candles, which were lit at some point.
For myself, the last few years when we've gone to Minnesota for the
holiday,
usually after lunch on Christmas day, we've walked down the middle of
the
local river for a mile or more, seeing the tracks left by the various
creatures in the snow on the river and river banks. Sometimes we see
pheasant and once I saw a snowy owl.
To celebrate the season I'm passing along the URL of a site I created
last year, of vintage Christmas cards from my personal family
collection.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/state1/cards/chrstmas.htm
Merry Christmas to you all,
Tim
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