Hometown Helena, December 15: Helena Capital High Advanced and The Montana Historical Society
Hometown Helena -- Thursday, December 15, 7 a.m. @ The Montana Club & Live via ZOOM hosted by AZ Technology Services:
- Helena Capital High Advanced Orchestra
- Molly Kruechenberg, Executive Director of the Montana Historical Society
- View recording: https://azworld.zoom.us/rec/
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December 13, 2022
I know we all have our favorite Christmas stories, seasonal music, holiday foods and family traditions at this special time of year. This week, I’ll share quotes from a few of my favorite Christmas stories with you all.
“There are a great many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I’m sure I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round,—apart from the veneration due its sacred origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of during the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-travellers to the grave, and not just another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say God bless it.”
A Christmas Carol. By Charles Dickens.
“The Magi, as you know, were wise men—wonderfully wise men—who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasure of their house.
But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Everywhere they are the wisest. They are the magi.”
The Gift of the Magi. By O. Henry.
“You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they traveled from far away to offer their gifts at the manger-cradle in Bethlehem. But have you ever heard the story of the Other Wise Man, who also saw the star in its rising, and set out to follow it; yet did not arrive with his brethren in the presence of the young child Jesus. Of the great desire of this fourth pilgrims, and how it was denied, yet accomplished in the denial; of his many wanderings and the probations of his soul; of the long way of his seeking, and the strange way of his finding, the One whom he sought—I would tell the tale as I heard fragments of it in the Hall of Dreams, in the palace of the Heart of Man.”
The Story of the Other Wise Man. By Henry Van Dyke.
Please plan to join us this Thursday, either in person or via the zoom, for a special Holiday Hometown Helena.
Most of all, on behalf of the Hometown Helena team, we wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season. We’ll see you again on January 5th for the first Hometown of 2023.
Jim Smith
Jim(at)HometownHelena(dot)news
Upcoming Hometown Helena Meetings (tentative schedule, check the week's email for updates):.
Sincerely, The Hometown Helena Team Jim Smith, Rick Hays, Kelly Cresswell, Emily McVey, Emily Frazier, Ali Mandell, Tom McGree, Peter Straus, Haley McKnight and Matt Elsaesser
- January 5, 2023 -- Next year of Hometown Helena Thursdays, 7 a.m., at The Montana Club!
Sincerely,
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