Comments on: In search of the Christmas tree in the Civil War era home http://cenantua.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/in-search-of-the-christmas-tree-in-the-civil-war-era-home/ Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:18:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: cenantua http://cenantua.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/in-search-of-the-christmas-tree-in-the-civil-war-era-home/#comment-717 cenantua Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:23:35 +0000 http://cenantua.wordpress.com/?p=1036#comment-717 Thanks Harry. I had heard about the work he does with the Nast Santa. Incidentally, have you noticed, the Nast Santa didn't care too much for Jefferson Davis? See <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/thomas-nasts-pro-war-santa" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Thanks Harry. I had heard about the work he does with the Nast Santa. Incidentally, have you noticed, the Nast Santa didn’t care too much for Jefferson Davis? See here.

]]> By: Harry Smeltzer http://cenantua.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/in-search-of-the-christmas-tree-in-the-civil-war-era-home/#comment-716 Harry Smeltzer Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:16:25 +0000 http://cenantua.wordpress.com/?p=1036#comment-716 Robert, Kevin Rawlings (a fellow SHAF board member) also has a great book on Christmas in the Civil War titled "We Were Marching on Christmas Day". Good stuff. Kevin also does a killer Thomas Nast Santa. Robert,

Kevin Rawlings (a fellow SHAF board member) also has a great book on Christmas in the Civil War titled “We Were Marching on Christmas Day”. Good stuff. Kevin also does a killer Thomas Nast Santa.

]]> By: cenantua http://cenantua.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/in-search-of-the-christmas-tree-in-the-civil-war-era-home/#comment-715 cenantua Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:54:05 +0000 http://cenantua.wordpress.com/?p=1036#comment-715 Thanks Richard. In my newspaper article, I was making the case that the Christmas tree may have been present in areas of the Valley as early as the 1750s. The Germannic origins of so many people here and the ties to Moravian settlements in Pa. (most especially considering the circuit routes of Lutheran ministers to Moravian settlements where Christmas trees were documented as early as the 1740s) seem to indicate this as a strong possibility. However, I don't think the first documented account of a Christmas tree in the Valley took place until the latter 1840s or early 1850s. For some reason I thought the first to be documented showed-up in a shop window in Woodstock or somewhere up in Shenandoah County. Thanks Richard.

In my newspaper article, I was making the case that the Christmas tree may have been present in areas of the Valley as early as the 1750s. The Germannic origins of so many people here and the ties to Moravian settlements in Pa. (most especially considering the circuit routes of Lutheran ministers to Moravian settlements where Christmas trees were documented as early as the 1740s) seem to indicate this as a strong possibility. However, I don’t think the first documented account of a Christmas tree in the Valley took place until the latter 1840s or early 1850s. For some reason I thought the first to be documented showed-up in a shop window in Woodstock or somewhere up in Shenandoah County.

]]> By: Richard Williams http://cenantua.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/in-search-of-the-christmas-tree-in-the-civil-war-era-home/#comment-714 Richard Williams Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:41:13 +0000 http://cenantua.wordpress.com/?p=1036#comment-714 This should be interesting for you to listen to: http://www.history.org/media/podcasts_mp3s/ProfessorMinnegerode.mp3 This should be interesting for you to listen to:

http://www.history.org/media/podcasts_mp3s/ProfessorMinnegerode.mp3

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