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A Stress-free Christmas Celebration during the Depression
A Stress-free Christmas Celebration during the Depression

Enjoy this brief first-hand account of a stress-free Christmas family get together from 1935. It sounds like a lovely time. We observe the old custom of having our whole family together for Christmas dinner. Last year there were nearly forty of us. Each family brought a basket lunch with service for its own members. No dirty dishes to mar the…