Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Saturday, 24 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 24 December 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cold, 10-15 degrees.  Heavy snow starting about 2 pm.  Laverne's and Wayne's came for Christmas dinner at 7pm and had gifts after.  They left at 10pm as the snowplow came or they would never have gotten home.
Comment:  And the Christmas blizzard strikes....Garrison Keillor even wrote a book about one.....http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/a-christmas-blizzard/
A Christmas Blizzard is the story of James Sparrow who dreads the holiday and the poignant memories it dredges up and who longs to spend December in Hawaii. But his wife adores Christmas and cannot bear to miss it. A phone call from cousin Liz in James’s hometown of Looseleaf, N.D. — his uncle Earl is dying — brings James out of the doldrums and he flies to Looseleaf just in time to be snowed in by a major blizzard. There is a ghost, a wise man of San Francisco, a genial uncle, an undercover FBI agent, a steamy sauna scene, and the singing of Christmas carols. And several feet of snow.”
— Garrison Keillor

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