The tradition continues...

Post date: Dec 18, 2017 4:27:04 PM

Every year as long as I can remember, my father and I would sit down for him to read Christmas At The Hollow Tree Inn  to me. This story is contained in volume 1, Stories of Childhood, which is part of a larger collection called The Child's World. This 6-series set was a gift sent to my two brothers, my sister, and me when our oldest brother was in the army. The other volumes have long disappeared (they were science and history related and not of much interest to a 5 year old), but The Child's World is still a precious possession of mine. Long after I could read, my father still read this story each year to me, and we were sure to make time for it when I came home on my college breaks. Now that he is not around, and since I don't have children of my own, we share this story together at EDP. We've been doing it for so long now that some of the high school students who work at Mindess EDP remember hearing it for the first time when they were younger. It really isn't Christmas for me until I hear, "And I wish I could tell you all that happened that week, but I can't because I haven't time. But it was the very nicest Christmas that ever was in the Hollow Tree, or in the Big Deep Woods anywhere."