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Wishing
esee Country Village and you board the train to ride
Museum: Celebrate the tra- to the North Pole. When we
ditions of the season and arrive at the North Pole Santa
your family
explore the winter wonders of will join us for the ride back
the historic village. Self-guid- to the Medina Railroad Muse-
ed tours. Eight houses will be um. He will hand out a bell to
open to explore. Experience each child. Admission into the
music, sample foods and
enjoy a visit with St. Nick.
museum is included in your
ticket. Dress in your favorite
A Very Merry
This magical event is sched-
uled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Light fare, snacks and drinks
will be available for purchase.
GENESEE COUNTRY VILLAGE AND MUSEUM
Visitors to the holiday open
pajama’s and enjoy the ride.
Medina Railroad Museum,
530 West Ave., Medina.
Christmas
Tickets for the Open House house at Genesee Country
are: $10 for adults, $8 for Village and Museum, Dec. 24
youth ages 3-17, and free Mumford, will be able to visit Christmas Eve Candlelight
for youth under three. The several village houses and Communion Services: Ser-
museum is located at 1410 learn about holiday traditions vices will be held at 4 p.m.
Flint Hill Rd., Mumford. Info. from the past. and 7 p.m. at Avon Wesleyan Need a Gift Idea, an Area Rug, or Gift Certificate? From: A.F.C.
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11 a.m. Stories and pancakes A 1-hour magical ride to the are welcome. Mon., 8-6; Tues., 8-7; Wed., 8-6;
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hoaglibrary.org. Hoag Library, special trip bringing his rein- Thurs., 8-7; Fri., 8-6 Sat., 8-3 Closed Sundays
134 South Main St., Albion. deer for all the children to See EVENTS T4
Happy Holidays
From Our Family to Yours
F U N E R A L H O M E S
EXPERIENCE • COMMITMENT • TRUST
B ATAV I A F U N E R A L H O M E S . C O M
Season’s Greetings December 2019 • 3
Peace
this year. years old. I have been a good possibly can because Daddy
n “Dear Santa Claus, I am a girl and help my mother. I has been sick so he can’t work
little girl 2 ½ years old. I have want shoes rubber gloves, my and he don’t have enough
long curls and blue eyes. Dear sister Frances is 8 years old. money to buy us things at
Santa, please bring me a big She want shoes rubber gloves, BE WITH YOU
all now. We like oranges and
doll, a doll buggy and a choo my brother Edward is 10 years
choo train and some aggets. candy too if you have some to
old he want a hat, gloves.
Thank you very much. Don’t
forget my brother Junior, my
Peter is 5 years old he want a
suit and stocking. Stanley is
spare … With love from Eve-
lyn Durrant” (1933)
One can only imagine little
C.B. Beach & Son
cousins Bobby and Richard
DeCarlo. Your pal, DeLois
Marie DeCarlo, 63 West Ave.”
4 years old and want suit and
stocking. My baby brother
Valentine is 1 ½ years old and
Evelyn’s frustrations that her
requests for gifts appeared to
Mortuary, Inc.
(1936). want shoes and a suit and he go unnoticed; thankfully she 1903 - 2019 ~ Celebrating 116 years
n “Dear Santa Claus, I am want an orange. Thank you did not realize the impact of
her father’s illness and work
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writing my letter to you for very much. Yours truly, Leona
Christmas. I bet you are very Marcks.” (1931) situation on the family’s Phone: 585-599-4520
busy and some of your little n “Dear Santa, We always Christmas plans. This is a Charles A. Herman Julie A. Herman
elves … I am going to ask for rite you at Xmas but we won- season for being thankful for Funeral Director Funeral Director
a nice little type writter and a der why you don’t bring us everything we have!
Season’s Greetings December 2019 • 9
A Christmas story:
Dansville woman writes of holiday in 1906
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was where showing us how the new
originally published Dec. 29, toys worked. A miraculous one
2016, in The Livingston County
was the red fire engine. When
News and recalls life during
the holiday season 113 years you gave it several hard pushes
ago. and let it go, it would climb
right up a steep incline. The
––– Flexible Flyer was a new inven-
T. Jeffery Clarke of Prince- tion. It had a bar for steering
ton, N.J., shares this story from either with hands or feet, and
his grandmother, Margaret sharp steel runners for speed.
Amanda McNair, who writes Marian was fascinated with a
about what Christmas was like set of mission style doll furni-
for her and her family in 1906. ture - a bed, a table, a rocker
McNair was born in 1899 in a and an arm chair just the size
house called “Engleside” near for Arabella, her doll. Her big
Dansville. She lived her life in brother watched her playing
three centuries. with it and later that week, he
Engleside, named to the went back to town with his fifty
National Register of Historical cents to buy it for her.
Places in 2009, is on McNair A beautifully made steam
Road in West Sparta off Route engine was the center of at-
36, not too far north of Dans- tention, as Mr. Harter lighted
ville. The historic estate in- the alcohol burner under the
cludes the large Greek Revival brass boiler. Before long, the
style main house, which was hot water generated steam to
built around 1848. move the pistons to turn the
McNair’s story is a rare and cog wheels that connected a
touching look at life 110 years belt to a little circular saw, and
ago – before automobiles, wonder of wonders, it would
world wars, television and the saw wooden match sticks in
Internet. two! There were wind up trains
on little tracks, iron hook and
Christmas in Dansville, ladder wagons with horses
and firemen riders, dolls with
1906 china heads and some that had
Just before Christmas, our PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID ULF hair and would shut their eyes.
whole family drove the double The McNair family children are shown in a 1905 photograph. The young lady on the left is Margaret Tinsel hung from everywhere
bobsled into the village over Amanda McNair, the author of this story. making it a fairy land we hated
the hard packed snow. We were to leave, but it was beginning
snugly bundled under warm to W.A. Spinning’s Dry Goods on up and down Main Street, and steamy, from the thawing to grow dark and the gaslights
lap robes with hot soapstones Store to find pretty, warm making the store fronts festive, woolen mittens, caps and See STORY T11
under our feet for the hour woolen material for the dresses especially as we came to A. L. mufflers. Mr. Harter was every-
long ride, and the sleigh bells Cousin Pearl would make for us Harter’s Toy Store, the real
strapped around the horses
made our chatter all the mer-
on her annual January visit.
We met together again at Pe-
point of the trip for us children.
Through the frosted win- Crocker’s
rier.
In front of Peck and Peck’s
ter W. Byer’s Shoe Store for new dows, we could see the sleds Ace Hardware
shoes and high buckled arctics. hanging from the ceiling, with
Hardware Store, the horses By now, the lights were coming the skates. Inside it was warm
were tied to a hitching post and
the boys helped cover them
with heavy horse blankets. In Wishing you a season
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Season’s Greetings December 2019 • 11
Don’t Hesitate
To Designate.
Don’t
Drink &
Drive.
It’s the holiday season. The time when many gifts are given...
and then returned. Make this year different!
GIVE THE GIFT THAT EVERYONE WILL LOVE!
So Are We!
This Holiday Season...
please remember to
celebrate responsibly.
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familiar with this feast day and n Children may leave their and wishing neighbors good
the customs surrounding it, shoes out on the Epiphany for health. Heartfelt wishes for a
presents, similar to they way n Until the 19th century, the
others are less so.
Here are some facts about stockings are hung. The shoes Epiphany was more important Merry Christmas
are filled with hay or treats for than Christmas Day.
Three Kings Day.
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n Three Kings Day also goes
In exchange, candies and toys ally served on the Epiphany. of serving you this year.
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Vintage Christmas
The Livingston County History Department shares a
selection of Christimas-time advertisements from 100
years ago. They include ads for a Geneseo department
store, an ad for women’s silk stockings, and Standard Oil
Company of New York.
That year, Christmas was on a Thursday. The U.S.
president was Woodrow Wilson. One of the year’s most
viewed movies was “Spring Fever,” directed by Edward
Sedgwick, who is credited with discovering Lucille Ball.
Let Faith
Be Your Guide
May the love and compassion of
our Savior fill your heart with
peace and contentment.
We wish you a blessed Christmas.
ALL BABIES
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H a p p y Holidays!
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Hall
From T20
Christmas.”
Moore was a writer and
scholar, described as a dour,
strait-laced academician. By
19, he was fluent in French,
Hebrew, Italian, Greek and
Latin. He had degrees from
Columbia University. Among
his writings was a dictionary of
the Hebrew language.
Fortunately, he had chil-
dren.
A gift to his children
“The rhyme is easy to re-
member, and the imagery
is magical,” Sandra Gillard,
retired children’s librarian at
Richmond Memorial Library,
Batavia, said of “ ‘Twas the
Night Before Christmas.”
“It captures the excitement
every child feels waiting for
Christmas morning.”
Moore penned the story
as a gift to his six children for
Christmas 1822. He read it
aloud for SYDNEY SCHAEFER/JOHNSON NEWSPAPERS
the first time A bedroom inside Constable Hall, which may have inspired Clement Clarke Moore’s popular poem “ ‘Twas the Night Before
fireside at Christmas.” Moore was visiting his cousin, Mary McVicker Constable, who lived in the house with her four children.
the family’s
Chelsea per was running the piece as a Moore, meanwhile, spent only son of Benjamin Moore, Not much is known about
mansion gift to its readers. many years following its pub- the president of Columbia when Moore finally confessed
to an audi- “We know not to whom we lication denying that he was College and bishop of the to writing his famous poem.
ence of his are indebted for the following the author. Protestant Episcopal Church “At some point before ‘A
children, description of that unwea- “He was a scholar, and in New York. Visit from St. Nicholas’ was
relatives, Moore ried patron of children – that didn’t want to be recognized Clement Moore graduated published with his name on
servants and homely, but delightful person- as being the author of such a top of his class from Columbia it, someone finally convinced
slaves. It is unlikely he ever ification of parental kindness thing,” said Paul Hickcock, College in 1798. In 1801, he him that it was a good story,”
meant for it to travel beyond – Santa Claus,” wrote the pa- director of the Troy Public received a master’s degree in Hickcock said.
their ears. per’s editor, Orville Holley. Library, where the original Oriental and Classical Litera- Such a good story, in fact,
But a year later, a relative “We hope our little patrons, publication of the poem is ture. He was later a professor that readers clipped it from
from Troy, Sarah Harriet both lads and lasses, will preserved. of Oriental and Greek litera- their newspapers and saved
Butler, copied the poem and accept it as proof of our un- In 1844, Moore finally ture at the General Theologi-
gave it to the editor of her local feigned good will toward them included “A Visit from St. cal Seminary in New York. See HALL T22
newspaper. – as a token of our warmest Nicholas” in a collection of his
The ballad of Santa Claus, wish that they may have many poetry.
appearing anonymously as a merry Christmas ...” Poet, educator, scholar
“An Account of a Visit from St.
Nicholas,” was first published
The poem quickly spread
from newspaper to newspa- Moore, from the Long Is-
Merry
per. land town of Chelsea, was the
Dec. 23, 1823, in the Sentinel
in Troy. It appeared on page Christmas
three. Nothing flashy, just one
more item among five col-
Happy Holidays from
umns of solid text.
An editor’s note along with
Thomas Wenhold PT PC our family
it described the piece as hav-
ing a “spirit of cordial good-
ness in it, a playfulness of fan-
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