Saint Nicholas, Wise Men, Bancroft Library and Doc

Twas the Night Before Christmas, and I'm Dreaming of, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, Sleigh Bells Ring, Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Do You Hear What I Hear, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark The Herald Angels Sing, Joy To The World, A Child is Born, and it's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas, Oh Come All Ye Faithful, Let it Snow, Let if Snow, Let if Snow, It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Here Comes Santa Clause, then Jolly Old Saint Nick, more rapid than eagles his coursers they came; and he whistled and shouted and called them by name; "Now, Dasher! Now Dancer! Now Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On Donner and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!" and I heard him exclaim er he drove out of sight, "Happy Christmas to All and to All a Goodnight."

How Did the Wise Men Know? By Lenora Smalley

I pondered the manger on the mantle- porcelain figures poured in flowing lines, Mary, face encased in a blue draped shawl reaches out to the baby in the crèche, shepherd, cape turned back in haste holds a lamb across his chest, Joseph lifting a lamp leans forward to get a closer peek , surrounded by cattle- oxen, donkey and sheep, --and three wise men, so reverent in purple, ermine-trimmed traveling robes bring gifts of myrrh, frankincense and gold. How did the wise men know? How did they know which star to follow? How did they know which road to take? In those days gold was the gift given to a King, frankincense was meant for One called divine. And myrrh? Myrrh was used for wounds and pain. How did they know which gifts to bring?

Writers Notebook: Researching a Legend.

Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone

Google Alerts: Americas (North Central South West Indies) www.ucberkley.bkstr.com Link leads to University of California, Berkley. Student Book Store. Sixteen books prominently displayed on their website, Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone hard and soft cover's among them. It was great to make their bookshelf - but here's an ironic twist to it. The Bancroft Library, just across the campus from the Student Book Store, provided me with a key piece of microfiche containing the Tombstone Nugget's daily reports on the Spicer Hearing that followed the gunfight at the OK Corral. Without those Tombstone Nugget pages from November and December 1881 much of the courtroom jousting between lawyers, witnesses and Judge Spicer would have paled or been lost entirely.

Tom Barnes -- Actor, Writer and Hurricane Hunter. Check out my website for books, blogs, western legends, a literary icon, reviews and interviews. Also my novels The Goring Collection and Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone along with a non fiction remembrance of The Hurricane Hunters and Lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

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