Sitting ahead of the Christmas gifts beneath our small tree are the traditional bowls of oranges sent by Dee's mother in Maryland. She sees to it that all her grandchildren get what she got for Christmas as a child of the Depression. If funds permitted, each child might receive one small gift. Every year we put the Gramaw orange out for each of our offspring. Leland and Erin, two of her grandchildren.
This year
2009, not 1941
many work with low-voltage bulbs
in their miner's helmets;
but in 1941
the Sunday Schoolers at
the First Congregational Church
in Waukesha Wisconsin
got an orange, (a precious orange!)
and a small box of hard candy
from the Santa enactor,
tha late Don Barney
in the greenery-festooned
miniature-seated
childrens' hall,
now
made into something else.
