Category Archives: Thanksgiving and Christmas

HOLIDAY EXPLORATIONS – GETTING YOU IN THE MOOD – 6 and 9 DECEMBER 2017

  I may have shared I considered mid-December Road Scholar Christmas programs at the Biltmore, and another in Williamsburg. For various reasons I decided not to go, holding those areas for adventures in late spring instead. But, I wanted to … Continue reading

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PORTSMOUTH (NH) HOLIDAY PREPARATIONS – 19-20 NOVEMBER 2017

This post is to help you “get in the spirit” – it did for me. Without having a December theatrical production to worry about, for the first time in nine years I have been able to review and decide on … Continue reading

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HOLIDAY GREETINGS and TRADITIONS – 19-20 DECEMBER 2016

If you get no further MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR If you have followed my travel posts, you should have noticed patterns to my travels, thus some traditions. If you enjoy something, or some place, what is wrong with repeating? … Continue reading

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CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION IN PLYMOUTH NOTCH – 10 DECEMBER 2016

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  Do I repeat doing what brings me pleasure? Do I want to share what brings me pleasure? Yes, so my son, Gary, and friends Tara and Carolyn journeyed off with me to enjoy the annual Christmas Open House at the … Continue reading

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INN-DULGENCE TOUR – OKEMO VALLEY, VERMONT – 3 DECEMBER 2016

There is so much going on in preparation for the holidays – I cannot do it all. This weekend was the Norman Rockwell Christmas Festivities in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, but when I finally thought about going, the Red Lion Inn was … Continue reading

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PLYMOUTH NOTCH, VERMONT 15 DECEMBER 2013

You by now know that I cannot get enough of the birthplace and home of our 30th President, Calvin Coolidge. I have visited this Vermont Historic Site six times in 2013, and each visit has been totally different.  Both BLACK … Continue reading

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY – 28 November 2013

On Thanksgiving Day and Christmas I am to be found with a large reading pile with no “work” planned.  Just a laid back atmosphere.  For today I have a VCR tape on loan from a friend, a DVD of Daniel … Continue reading

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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM WALPOLE – December 24th 2012

I just looked at my new clock, and see that it is Monday.  Intuitively I also know that it is Christmas Eve.  Last evening I watched WHITE CHRISTMAS (a small tradition of mine) and tonight I will watch IT’S A … Continue reading

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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM WALPOLE — December 24th 2011

Walpole is a town of tradition, and this evening marked the 37th Live Nativity on the Common, right at my front door.  I was flattered when the narrator, the son-in-law of the woman who started the live Nativity, said, “Walpole is … Continue reading

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