A Connecticut Christmas: Stories, Poems and Sermons, 1774-1918 by Ed Ifkovic (En

Description: A Connecticut Christmas by Ed Ifkovic Its time for a little old-fashioned holiday storytelling. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Christmas in Connecticut! These words immediately evoke warm images of stained-glass churches on snow-blanketed town greens, merry bands of roving carolers, sleigh bells ringing in the icy night, and candlelit fir trees decorated with popcorn and cranberries. Such a romantic world, a glittering Christmas card now vanished into the past, comes to life in this new collection of stories, poems, and sermons--forgotten writings that document Christmas as a much-loved tradition from the late 1700s until World War I. Puritan Connecticut not only ignored the holiday but made it illegal, yet by the 1850s Christmas in Connecticut was not only legal but a festive time of illuminated trees, colorful presents, Santa Claus, lavish family feasts, and quiet homilies about the birth of Christ in a Bethlehem manger. These early writings by Connecticut-born writers, like Harriet Beecher Stowe--mostly sentimental, often maudlin, but oddly quaint and sometimes surprisingly charming--have mostly disappeared into the dustbins of old bookstores. Now this lost, distant world reemerges. Outside its snowing, the stockings hang on the fireplace mantel, and its finally Christmas Eve. Its time for a little old-fashioned holiday storytelling. Author Biography ED IFKOVIC taught literature and creative writing at a community college in Connecticut for over three decades. His short stories and essays have appeared in the "Village Voice, America, Hartford Monthly", and "Journal of Popular Culture". A longtime devotee of mystery novels, he fondly recalls discovering Erle Stanley Gardners Perry Mason series in a family bookcase. Details ISBN0595330614 Author Ed Ifkovic Short Title CONNECTICUT XMAS Pages 236 Publisher iUniverse Language English ISBN-10 0595330614 ISBN-13 9780595330614 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2004 Publication Date 2004-09-30 Subtitle Stories, Poems and Sermons, 1774-1918 DOI 10.1604/9780595330614 UK Release Date 2004-09-30 Imprint iUniverse Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2004-09-30 NZ Release Date 2004-09-30 US Release Date 2004-09-30 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134729559;

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