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Visits to City and Seacoast, Farm and Factory, Mountains and Valleys. And Miles to Go Before I Sleep.
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Christmas turns everyone
who celebrates it into a classic film fan—at least for that special season.
The average person,
unlike devoted classic film fans, may not recognize images of Clark Gable or
know who James Wong Howe was, or be able to tell you why 1939 was such a
spectacular year for films. But when
yuletide rolls around, they rejoice with Miracle on 34th Street,
It’s a Wonderful Life, and of course, White Christmas.
We find a vast treasure
of Christmas scenes in films that were never meant to be “Christmas movies” but
which are now part of the holiday canon, and this collection of essays
spotlighting Christmas in classic films brings you all the warmth and memories
that have become as dear a custom as decorating your home and holiday
baking. You may even have one of these
movies on in the background when you’re writing out your Christmas cards.
Unwrap this package and
relive the moments and discover Christmas nostalgia anew, from Cary Grant’s
mysterious angel in The Bishop’s Wife to poor Ralphie pining for a Red
Ryder BB-gun in A Christmas Story.
There’s lots more here
waiting for you under the tree.
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Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of States of Mind: New England;
Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Massachusetts;
The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts;
Beside the Still Waters (a novel of the Quabbin Reservoir towns);
and the Double V Mysteries series of novels set around New England in the early 1950s.
Have a look at a nostalgic view of New England in this travelogue film from the 1940s. Summer in New England is something eternal.
Beside the Still Waters is based on actual events that displaced four entire towns in central Massachusetts in the 1920s and 1930s for the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir. Families are torn apart, divided between those who protest the construction, those who give up and leave while they can, and those who help to build the dam that will flood the towns.
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Last December, I gave a Zoom PowerPoint presentation on the historical background of my novel Beside the Still Waters.
Here's a link to the replay of this talk for the Amherst (Massachusetts) Historical Society.
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Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of States of Mind: New England;
Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Massachusetts;
The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts;
Beside the Still Waters (a novel of the Quabbin Reservoir towns);
and the Double V Mysteries series of novels set around New England in the early 1950s.
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Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Massachusetts; States of Mind: New England (collected essays from this blog); The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts; and Beside the Still Waters - a novel on the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir.