From 'Los Reyes Magos' to Santa Claus: Cuban Americans and Christmas

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From 'Los Reyes Magos' to Santa Claus: Cuban Americans and Christmas 12/21 by Silvio Canto Jr | Family Podcasts:

A Cuban American roundtable.... Jorge Ponce, columnist, Fernando Hernandez, author, Amarilys Rassler, author, and Tersi Bidenburg, storyteller...............We will discuss our first Christmas in the US......and any memories of our last Christmas in Cuba............my guests and I share a Cuban American experience going back to the 1960s when we left the island for political reasons........we grew up in the US in a Cuban American culture that combined Santa Claus & Los Reyes Magos....................

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Watching “Holiday Affair”.

 

Watching “Holiday Affair”....this is the story: “A young widow is romanced by a sales clerk whom she inadvertently got fired”..........these post-War romantic movies were great.....and Janet Leigh is cute and I suppose that women think the same of Robert Mitchum....fun movie! 

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1856 and a nice Christmas history

How about a Christmas story?    I found this in another blog:

"Massachusetts was the first state to make Christmas a legal holiday, in 1856.

By that time, most of our shared Christmas traditions were set, and Harper's Weekly, on January 3, 1863, featured a drawing of encamped soldiers receiving Christmas gifts from home.

Christmas become a federal holiday under President Ulysses S. Grant's 1870 declaration."

Enjoy your holiday!   

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