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A Christmas Story About The Man Who Loved Christmas
A Christmas Story About The Man Who Loved Christmas
A Christmas Story About The Man Who Loved Christmas

A Christmas Story About The Man Who Loved Christmas 

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The Man Who Loved Santa Claus

A Christmas Story About The Man Who Loved Christmas
Thomas Nast is the man who designed Santa Claus around 1881.
Saint Nicholas had arrived in America with the Dutch colonists of
New Amsterdam. But their Saint "Nick" was seen as a bishop, proud
and tall, dressed in clerical robes and carrying a birch staff.
Nast, in constrast, visualized Santa Claus as the character who
had been discribed in his own Bavarian boyhood, a rosy cheeked,
rotound figure of cheer in a fur suit.
A Christmas Story About The Man Who Loved Christmas
Depicting the chubby elf of his imagination came easily to Nast.
Having emigrated to New York at the age of 6 in 1846, he was
enrolled in art school by the time he was 13, and just two years
later had already begun his career as a newspaper illustrator.
Nast's assignments included many major stories of the day, and by
December of 1863 he need a break. Designing the cover for the
New Year's edition of Harper's Weekly, he drew a scene of a
Union Army camp, but it forcused on a fanciful Santa Claus, clad
in stars and stripes, handing out toys to bemused soldiers.
A Christmas Story About The Man Who Loved Christmas
Every Christmas for the next 23 years, Nast took a simular holiday
from more serious subjects. In the process he not only gave form
to the figure that Americans accept as the "real" Santa Claus, but
also fixed Santa's activites in the minds of future generations.
Toy-making in the North Pole workshop, the book in which Santa
records children as naughty or nice, and the reindeer-drawn sleigh
filled with toys were all memorably depicted by Nast. Even Santa's
red suit is a Nast legacy. He decided that red would be more
striking than any other hue when he illustrated one for the first
colored children's books in 1866.
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Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

A good time is coming,
I wish it were here,
the very best time
in the whole of the year.

I'm counting each day
on my fingers and thumbs,
the weeks that must pass
before Santa Claus comes.

Then when the first snowflakes
begin to come down,
and the wind whistles sharp
and the branches are brown,
I'll not mind the cold,
though my fingers it numbs,
for it brings the time nearer
when Santa Claus comes.
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Santa Claus has the right idea,
visit people only once a year.
- Victor Borge

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